Texas judge Lori Valenzuela testified on the witness stand Wednesday that Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood, an elected District Attorney (DA), told her he would destroy two defense lawyers’ practices for raising issues of prosecutorial misconduct during the murder trial of 29-year-old Miguel Martinez.
Car accidents are never fun for anyone, especially when they result in injuries. For Karen Del Re, 53, of New Jersey, that’s exactly what happened when “she was injured in a crash with an agency pickup truck in 2013.” Fortunately, however, Del Re received $3.6 million from a settlement agreement “with the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.”
After being injured in the deadly water slide accident that claimed the young life of a state lawmaker’s 10-year-old son, two sisters have finally agreed to a settlement with the owner of the Schlitterbahn Water Park.
Dr. David Dao was forcibly dragged of a plane at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport after he refused to give up his seat to an airline crew member.
The brutal eviction of a passenger on an overbooked United Airlines flight is among the worst public relations disasters in recent history. Following an announcement that four passengers would be selected to make room for airline staff, an Asian-American man was told he’d have to leave. Saying he was a doctor and had patients to
Patricia Minaldi was removed from several cases last December and has been diagnosed with a serious brain disorder caused by severe alcohol abuse.
After recommendations made by a U.S. Magistrate Judge, a federal judge in California gave the go-ahead for past and present inmates at a Shasta County jail to file a class action suit. The case was registered last year in Sacramento’s District Court. The plaintiffs and their attorneys are arguing that the facility in question, located
It’s like a story from a Hollywood movie – a real-life Catch Me If You Can, perhaps. A young man escaped a halfway house in Texas back in in 1996. Unsatisfied with what life had thrown at him, including a conviction for indecency with a child, he decided to come up with a plan to
Yet another company has been slapped with a lawsuit. Yahoo Inc is being sued by a group of Chinese dissidents on claims that the company “failed to safeguard more than $17 million it pledged to help jailed Chinese dissidents in a 2007 settlement.” According to the lawsuit, Yahoo “willfully turned a blind eye while Harry Wu, a high-profile political activist charged with administering the funds, used them for personal gain.”
The domestic violence complaints left a Maplewood resident homeless. She was punished by the city for her calls.