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Boy Scouts of America Issues Voluntary Recall of 110,000 Neckerchief Slides

- September 28, 2018

Earlier this week, the Boy Scouts of America issued a recall of an estimated 110,000 neckerchief slides “that have been found to contain dangerous levels of lead.” The recall was posted on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) website on Wednesday, and claim the four models of the recalled neckerchief slides “have been shown to contain levels of lead that exceed the federal lead content ban within the slides’ colored enamel.”

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Lawsuit Accuses Torrance Unified School Officials of Ignoring Autistic Student’s Sexual Abuse

- September 27, 2018

Three middle school officials in the Torrance Unified School District are under fire in a new lawsuit filed against the district claiming the officials “failed to follow up on allegations of sexual abuse by a group of male pupils against an autistic female student.” The suit itself was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and alleges that “Calle Mayor Middle School principal David Mosley, assistant principal James Ashikawa and special education teacher William Kealey violated state law” when they failed to file a police report of suspected child abuse.

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Civil Lawsuit Targets Gwinnett County Walmart After Fatal Shooting

- September 27, 2018

The wife of a man killed outside a Walmart store in Gwinnett County filed a wrongful death lawsuit earlier this week against the popular retailer and the man who shot and killed her husband, Fadil Delkic. According to the civil suit, which was filed in Gwinnett County State Court by Delkic’s wife, Bahra Delkic, Fadil was fatally shot on August 19 after a dispute with Troy Hunte, “who has since been charged with murder.”

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Republicans Pass Resolution Against Letting Undocumented Immigrants Vote

- September 27, 2018

The Republican-dominated House of Representatives passed a symbolic resolution against granting undocumented immigrants the right to vote. The unusual measure was, according to POLITICO.com, ‘essentially a protest’ against a small handful of cities which allow illegal immigrants to vote in certain local elections. The move, supported by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), might be

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Portland Rental Management Company Forks Over $105K to Settle Lawsuit Filed by Former Tenant

- September 27, 2018

A&G Rental Management, a rental management company in Portland recently agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a former tenant for $105,000. The suit was filed earlier this year and alleged that the former tenant, Aleina Langford, lived in “deplorable living conditions that included hypodermic needles, rats and overflowing garbage at her Southeast Portland apartment complex.” To make matters worse, her attorney, Michael Fuller, claimed the rental management company sent a “collection agency after her seeking more than $1,500 in so-called bogus charges.”

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DHS Wants to Check Immigrant Credit Scores Before Granting Green Cards

- September 27, 2018

A Department of Homeland Security proposal could deem immigrants with low credit scores inadmissible to the United States. Signed Friday by DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, the proposal’s intent is to prevent immigrants from becoming legal permanent residents if they’re ‘public charges.’ A public charge, writes MarketWatch.com, refers to individuals or households which draw substantial government

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Louisville Metro Police at the Center of a Federal Wrongful Death Lawsuit

- September 27, 2018

Earlier this year on April 24, Demonjhea Jordan fled the scene of a robbery and allegedly pointed his handgun at police officers in a Portland neighborhood. In response, one of those Louisville Metro Police officers “fired his gun through the window of his squad car,” killing Jordan, who was 21-years-old at the time. As a result of the fatal shooting, Jordan’s mother and father filed a wrongful death lawsuit earlier this month in Jefferson County Court, though it was moved to federal court yesterday.

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