A Michigan judge said he’d expedite a lawsuit challenging the closure of Ojibway Correctional Facility in the state’s upper peninsula. According to the Detroit Free Press, Marenisco Township is suing the state Department of Corrections over its decision to close Ojibwe. Township Supervisor Richard Bouvette said the department didn’t pay proper mind to the devastating
A Chicago City Council committee recently approved a $16 million payment for the family of a woman who was accidentally shot dead by police. The New York Times reports that city corporation counsel Edward Siskel told members of the financial board that a payment to Bettie Jones’ family was the most sensible outcome. Taking the
On August 7, U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. granted final approval of a settlement in a class action lawsuit filed against Shasta County and the Shasta County Sheriff’s Department over systemic ADA discrimination [against prisoners] in the Shasta County Jail in Redding, California.
E-Cig Makers have Sixty Days to Keep Products from Children
A federal judge ruled that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s decision to rescind protections for students defrauded by for-profit colleges should be reversed. But, reports the New York Times, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss put the ruling on hold for 30 days, to give the Education Department time to respond. Moss’s decision could drastically alter
Vizio Moves to Settle Class Action Regarding Unauthorized Data Tracking
A wrongful death lawsuit was recently filed against the University of New Mexico (UNM) and abortionist Curtis Boyd by the sister and mother of 23-year-old Keisha Marie Atkins. Atkins passed away in February 2017 during a late-term abortion, and now her mother and sister want justice against the parties who allegedly covered up the cause of her death.
McDonald’s recently came under fire in a lawsuit filed by the mother of a man “fatally shot in the parking lot of a Springfield McDonald’s.” According to the suit, the death of the man, Zachary Zumwalt, was totally preventable and claims “McDonald’s is partially to blame for the fatal shooting.” But what happened? What led to Zumwalt’s death?
Do you have one of the new Galaxy Note 9 phones? If so, a new lawsuit filed earlier this week may interest you. According to a lawsuit filed yesterday, the new phone allegedly caught fire. The incident occurred barely a month after Koh Dong-jin, the CEO for Samsung, “promised consumers the batteries on the new Galaxy Note 9 are ‘safer than ever.’”
A lawsuit stemming from a 2012 incident settled earlier this week for $575,000. It was filed on behalf of a woman, Brie Ana Williams, and claimed she was raped at a Los Vaqueros Trail Ride event at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Williams filed her lawsuit against rodeo after she said “someone raped her during an event associated with the trail riders in Dayton in 2012.” Though a settlement was finally agreed to, the complaints against the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo were dismissed.