A federal judge dismissed a climate change lawsuit filed by New York City, saying the onus to end global warming is on Congress and the Oval Office rather than the courts. While Judge John F. Keenan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York called climate change “a fact of life,”
Earlier this week, officials in New York City agreed to pay $20.8 million to settle allegations that the city “discriminated against city-employed registered nurses and midwives because they are women.”
Many people who visited a Gatlinburg-area zip line attraction contracted an illness, “possibly from contaminated well water.” As a result, a family who visited the zip line attraction and fell ill has decided to file a “complaint for class-action certification and damages against Climb Works LLC.” The complaint was filed by Tristan and Melissa Mantheys from the New Orleans-area.
After embarking on a kayaking trip down the Ohio River, Helene Brandy of Ambridge tragically lost her life. As a result, her parents, Kathleen and Bruce Brandy, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Pittsburgh against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, alleging “the agency didn’t adequately warn boaters of the dangers surrounding the Dashields Locks and Dam.” According to the couple’s suit, their daughter, who was only 25-years-old at the time of her death, “was one of two people who died in May 2017 when their kayaks were swept over the dam near Edgeworth.”
Harvey Weinstein is trying to wrangle his way out of a lawsuit brought by actress Ashley Judd. Attorneys for the disgraced producer say Judd’s claims that Weinstein tried to damage her career after rejecting him are ‘baseless’ and filed long after the misdeeds allegedly took place. The New York Times writes that lawyers looked into
Earlier this week, Defense Distributed and the company’s owner, Cody Wilson, got the go-ahead to continue publishing “designs and other technical files” for 3D printed guns after the U.S. Department of State agreed to “waive its prior restraint order against Wilson and Defense Distributed.” The decision also brings an end to a lawsuit that Defense Distributed and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed in 2015 over the restraint order.
Free Market Founders Battling it Out in Court
Migrants detained under the Trump administration’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy have launched a lawsuit against the federal government, alleging unsanitary living conditions in detention facilities. Filed Monday in U.S. District Court in California, accusations detail being fed inedible food and being forced to drink ‘dirty’ water. NPR says the suit includes testimony from 200 individuals, many of
The California Department of Public Health recently announced the Redwood Springs Healthcare Center will have to pay a hefty fine “after a family of a patient said staff caused the death of their loved one.” Redwood Springs Healthcare Center is a nursing home facility in Visalia and was ordered to pay the $100,000 fine after being given a “Class AA citation, the most severe penalty under state law.”
Missouri Prison Guards Face Harassment, State Settles Cases