Unfortunately, we live in a time when identity theft and fraud are running rampant. Almost every month, we hear of major security breaches with companies like Yahoo, Uber, Equifax, and Dropbox all compromised. When these types of breaches occur, millions of usernames and passwords are hacked, often resulting in identity theft and fraud.
Deputy Could Be Held Responsible For Inaction During Florida Shooting
A copyright infringement lawsuit was recently settled between the artist who “created Pepe the Frog” and Missouri native Jessica Logsdon. The artist, Matt Furie, originally filed the lawsuit because he alleged that Logsdon misused the “character to sell hate-promoting oil paintings.” This isn’t the first lawsuit Furie has filed over his character, Pepe, though. On his “campaign to reclaim his creation from far-right extremists who hijacked Pepe, mixing images of Furie’s ‘chill frog-dude’ with Nazi symbols and other hateful imagery,” he also filed a lawsuit against Infowars, a “conspiracy-promoting website…for selling a poster that included an image of Pepe.”
A 47-year old Florida physician is under investigation after a patient claimed the doctor began masturbating midway through an examination. Months after the strange case first broke, the state’s medical board has restricted Dr. Om Parkash Kapoor’s medical license. Kapoor, of Jacksonville, is now facing charges of battery and indecent exposure. The incident allegedly occurred
The State of California plans to demand that a Trump administration challenge to its sanctuary laws be transferred from a federal court in Sacramento to another venue in San Francisco. According to Politico.com, the possibility of a venue change will be determined by Sacramento-based Judge John Mendez, who’s now adjudicating the unusual suit brought forward
Michigan resident David Green recently filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court “against the city of Mission and three of its police officers.” Why? Well, according to Green, the three police officers named in the lawsuit “fatally shot his mentally ill son” two years ago after allegedly failing “to use de-escalation tactics after he called police Feb. 22, 2016, seeking help for his 38-year-old son, David Green II.” The lawsuit also alleges that the officer’s “excessive force led to his son’s death.”
Illinois is currently implementing a medical marijuana infrastructure, and many people wonder what that means for recreational marijuana use in the state. Under Illinois’ Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act, individuals who have been diagnosed with certain debilitating conditions may be prescribed marijuana to manage their symptoms. As lawmakers, physicians, and those in the marijuana industry get this off the ground, many minds turn to recreational use.
We stand at the crossroads. To one side lies the death of science as a cultural pillar. To the other lies science in the service of life. Choose wisely.
Hospital newborn units are supposed to be havens of safety, where tired parents often send their little ones so they can catch a few hours of sleep here and there shortly after the birth, or where infants receive their first round of vaccinations and other medicines. That’s why a recent story of infants allegedly being harmed in a newborn unit has so many people upset. According to a federal report issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, “five infants suffered serious injuries including a fractured skull, rib, and arm in the newborn unit of a Wisconsin hospital and the nurse who cared for them has been suspended.”
‘America’s Got Talent,’ a reality competition show that features dancers, singers, magicians, comedians, and other types of performers, just got hit with some bad legal news. It turns out the show, along with the producers and network, NBC, is being sued in a wrongful death lawsuit. By whom, though, and why? For starters, the lawsuit was filed by the family of a “79-year-old woman claims she died three months after being injured in a fall from her wheelchair outside of where ‘AGT’ was filming” back in March 2017.