On Thursday, a federal judge dismissed demands from the Trump administration to block three of California’s sanctuary city laws. POLITICO reports that the court allowed the brunt of the legislation to remain intact while ordering some alterations. Sacramento-based U.S. District Judge John Mendez ‘rejected, for now, the Justice Department’s drive to halt a California law
According to a lawsuit that recently settled for $135 million, Faith DeGrand of Wyandotte, Michigan suffered crippling injuries that left her partially paralyzed in 2010 after being admitted to Children’s Hospital of DMC for scoliosis surgery. What kind of crippling injuries did she sustain, and how?
You would think a person would be able to just sit and relax on the curbside of a road without having to worry about physical harm befalling them, but that’s not always the case. For example, last week a man in Pennsylvania was “sitting on a curb when an officer fired a stun gun at his back.” Since the incident, the African American man, Sean Williams, has filed a federal lawsuit arguing “his constitutional rights were violated.” The lawsuit itself was filed in U.S. District Court “against the officer and the City of Lancaster, claiming police used excessive force, denied him medical care and racially profiled him.”
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The Cheesecake Factory recently came under fire by three African American women who claim they were discriminated against while visiting the Redondo Beach location. According to reports from the women, they’re male white server referred to them as ‘you people,’ and the manager allegedly told them, ‘you are nobody.”
Who doesn’t enjoy the occasional smoothie? They’re simple enough to make with a handful of fruit and a blender, but did you know a certain type of blender is gearing up to be the center of a class action lawsuit? As it turns out, the maker of the “NutriBullet high-speed blender is facing a class action accusing it of failing to warn consumers about the potential for the gadget to explode without warning, causing injuries to consumers, including burns.”
A federal civil rights lawsuit accuses Madera police of killing a mentally ill man who was brandishing a stick. Filed in a California court in late June, the complaint stacks drastically different accounts of the killing against one another. Police say 31-year Sergio Valdovinos was wielding a machete, shovel handle and makeshift shield when he
The family of a young mother who passed away in a rural jail has settled the lawsuit they filed against the jail for $270,000. The lawsuit was filed against the Mississippi County Detention Center shortly after Somer Nunnally died from an overdose back in May 2015 and alleged that “jailers laughed at Nunnally as she died on the floor of” of her cell.
Losing a child is something no parent should have to go through, especially when the death could have been prevented. Depending on the circumstances, some parents often feel compelled to file lawsuits as a result, such as a woman in South Pasadena who recently filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County alleging “negligence, wrongful death, and violation of the state Penal Code.” The woman, Ana Estevez, alleges in her lawsuit that the city’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is partly to blame for the death of her 5-year-old son.