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Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Involving Man’s Death in the Arrowhead Stadium Parking Lot

- June 5, 2018

Five years after the tragic death of Chief’s fan Kyle Van Winkle, his widow, Jenni Van Winkle finally reached a settlement with the Kansas City Chiefs, bring her wrongful death lawsuit against the team to a close. For those who don’t know, Kyle Van Winkle was a long time Chief’s fan and enjoyed attending home games at Arrowhead Stadium. Unfortunately, while attending a home game in December 2013, he was attacked and left for dead in the Arrowhead Stadium parking lot.

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Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed 1 Year After Armored Truck Employee Killed at Mid-City Bank

- June 5, 2018

Loomis Armored US LLC and Campus Federal Credit Union recently came under fire in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the “wife of an armored truck employee who was shot and killed while servicing an ATM outside a Mid-City bank last year.” The wife, Erica McBride, alleges in the suit that her husband, James McBride, died as a “result of the joint negligence” by both parties.

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Customs and Border Protection Seizes 64-Year Old Immigrant’s Life Savings in Cleveland

- June 4, 2018

A 64-year old man from Cleveland, Ohio, is suing U.S. Customs and Border Protection after officials confiscated his life savings at an area airport. Customs agents, writes The Washington Post, seized the money in October through a process known as civil forfeiture. Under the statute, authorities can confiscate cash and property from individuals—regardless of whether

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Former Texans Cheerleaders File Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Against the NFL Team

- June 1, 2018

Earlier today, five former cheerleaders filed a federal lawsuit against the Texans, alleging the NFL team of paying them “a dime a minute to cheer for pro football players who are paid in the millions of dollars.” The suit itself was filed by the attorney’s Gloria Allred and Kimberly Spurlock and is “the second filed against the Texans and the latest in a series of legal actions accusing NFL teams of failing to pay minimum wage and overtime and in subjecting cheerleaders to unsafe working conditions.”

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School District Settles Lawsuit Amid Allegations that School Nurse Abused Student

- May 31, 2018

After four years of being abused by a school nurse assigned to care for him, a severely disabled boy and his family recently agreed to a settlement over a lawsuit they had filed against the Easton Area School District and Colonial Intermediate Unit 20. According to the lawsuit, the nurse often came to “work drunk and abused him for four years before teachers reported their concerns to child welfare officials.” As part of the settlement, the school district and IU “were ordered to pay a total of $150,000, as well as pay for the student’s tuition at the Royer-Greaves School for Blind in Paoli, Chester County.”

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