Back in March of this year, 20-year-old Brett D. Rodgers II was shot and killed “on the premises of the Hog Wild Saloon,” and his family wants justice. Earlier this week, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed in Sullivan County Circuit Court regarding the incident, and it claims that Rodgers would “still be alive id Hog Wild Saloon had provided adequate security.”
The Seneca Park Zoo Society is at the center of a federal age discrimination lawsuit filed by its former director of education, Bartholomew Roselli. The suit alleges that Roselli was “the victim of age discrimination when he was fired in 2017.” According to the suit, Roselli, now 65-years-old, “was hired by the Seneca Park Zoo Society in 2009 as the director of education and interpretation, which involved serving as a public-facing leader of public programs and exhibits and managing about 25 people.” The zoo itself is supported by the Seneca Park Zoo Society and operated by Monroe County.
A massive migrant caravan headed for the United States ran into trouble Friday, with participants forced to square off against security forces. Between 1,500 and 4,500 migrants attempted to enter Mexico from Guatemala. With a river separating the two countries, some members opted to jump off a border bridge to try swimming across. Law enforcement
Sears Holding Corp. is at the center of a new lawsuit alleging the bankrupt retailer failed to pay for its merchandise. The suit was filed by In Gear Fashions, a Miami-based clothing vendor, earlier this week in Cook County Circuit Court and names Sears Holding Corp., CEO Edward Lampert, Lampert’s “private equity firm ESL Investments and Kmart, which is a subsidiary of Sears” as defendants. The suit was filed mere days after the now bankrupt retailer filed for “Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on October 15.”
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Earlier this week, Horning Brothers, a vegetable-packing house in Grant County, Washington agreed to pay $525,000 to settle a lawsuit that claimed a “supervisor groped, propositioned and retaliated against female workers over a period of years.” The suit was filed by Attorney General Bob Ferguson and the settlement agreement was announced yesterday. According to Ferguson, the settlement is “believed to be the largest civil-rights resolution for the state in Washington history.”
Mo’s Fisherman Exchange Inc., the company that owns and operates Mo’s Seafood restaurants recently agreed to pay $1 million to settle a dispute with 34 former workers that claimed in a lawsuit that the restaurant chain underpaid them. However, despite the settlement, the company “did not admit to liability under the terms of the settlement of the suit.”
A 4,000-person caravan of migrants has arrived in Guatemala City, sparking concern from the White House and mass media attention. The New York Times reports that the group has traveled for days. Many have walked, hitchhiked and taken public buses to leave the Central American nation of Honduras. Now, in Guatemala and on Mexico’s doorstep,
On Thursday, President Donald Trump threatened to bring the military to the U.S.-Mexico border if immigration can’t be curbed. “I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught – and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!” Trump tweeted in the