According to a lawsuit that recently settled for $135 million, Faith DeGrand of Wyandotte, Michigan suffered crippling injuries that left her partially paralyzed in 2010 after being admitted to Children’s Hospital of DMC for scoliosis surgery. What kind of crippling injuries did she sustain, and how?
Buyer beware, another recall was recently issued over Salmonella contamination concerns. According to a recall notice issued by Blissful Remedies, packages of its kratom capsules tested positive for Salmonella. This isn’t the first kratom product to be recalled as of late. In fact, nearly “199 people from 41 states have been infected in an ongoing Salmonella outbreak traced to kratom products, with 38 percent of the ill people having been hospitalized,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
You would think a person would be able to just sit and relax on the curbside of a road without having to worry about physical harm befalling them, but that’s not always the case. For example, last week a man in Pennsylvania was “sitting on a curb when an officer fired a stun gun at his back.” Since the incident, the African American man, Sean Williams, has filed a federal lawsuit arguing “his constitutional rights were violated.” The lawsuit itself was filed in U.S. District Court “against the officer and the City of Lancaster, claiming police used excessive force, denied him medical care and racially profiled him.”
Near Drowning Lawsuit Filed by Family Reaches Settlement
Man Wrongfully Held in Solitary Confinement Reaches Settlement with Police
The Cheesecake Factory recently came under fire by three African American women who claim they were discriminated against while visiting the Redondo Beach location. According to reports from the women, they’re male white server referred to them as ‘you people,’ and the manager allegedly told them, ‘you are nobody.”
Who doesn’t enjoy the occasional smoothie? They’re simple enough to make with a handful of fruit and a blender, but did you know a certain type of blender is gearing up to be the center of a class action lawsuit? As it turns out, the maker of the “NutriBullet high-speed blender is facing a class action accusing it of failing to warn consumers about the potential for the gadget to explode without warning, causing injuries to consumers, including burns.”
The Trump administration intends to do away with Obama-era rules on how race can be used in college admissions. The Department of Education’s decision to rescind a set of guidance documents won’t have an impact on affirmative action—but, as CNN notes, the impending departure of Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy leaves the door open
A federal civil rights lawsuit accuses Madera police of killing a mentally ill man who was brandishing a stick. Filed in a California court in late June, the complaint stacks drastically different accounts of the killing against one another. Police say 31-year Sergio Valdovinos was wielding a machete, shovel handle and makeshift shield when he
Washington State’s Largest Psychiatric Hospital Has Lost Federal Funding