A Miami woman mistakenly booked into an all-men’s jail after law enforcement officers claimed she was lying about her gender has filed a lawsuit against the county. Newsweek reports that Fior Pichardo de Veloz traveled to Miami to see the birth of a grandchild in 2013. She arrested at the airport for an old, unprocessed
Judge Rules in Case Involving Genital Mutilation of Young Girls
Women Prison Employees Routinely Face Harassment
Walgreens, CVS on the Hook in Florida for Opioid Epidemic
Judge Doesn’t Have to Give up Case Over Facebook Friendship
Family outings are supposed to be fun and a chance to reconnect and bond with each other. However, for one family, a family outing to MGM National Harbor took a devastating turn when Zynae Green, a 7-year-old girl, was electroshocked and seriously injured. Now, her family wants justice and filed a lawsuit earlier this week in Prince George’s County, Maryland, five months after the incident occurred.
When most kids visit their cafeteria for their lunch break, they do so with the expectation that they will be able to eat their lunch in peace, without fear of getting hurt. However, one kindergartener in Tennessee found out that the unexpected can even happen in the lunch room. According to a lawsuit recently filed in Shelby County, a kindergarten student was “burned so badly by food at a Tennessee school that she had to be treated at a local hospital.” The suit itself was filed by the girl’s mother and names “Shelby County Schools as the defendant.”
A settlement agreement was recently announced between Mecklenburg County’s EMS agency and a former employee for $350,000. Of the settlement funds, $90,000 will go towards attorney fees, while the other $260,000 will go to the former MEDIC public relations manager who sued his agency over racial discrimination and retaliation.
Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is reversing her stance on how the agency investigates civil rights complaints. Education Week reports that, as of November 20th, the department is revising its Office of Civil Rights case-processing manual. Specifically, DeVos is backpedaling a recently-implemented instruction for investigators to dismiss multiple civil rights complaints if they originate
New Jersey Files Lawsuit Against J&J Subsidiary, Opioid Maker