Workplace accidents happen, but it’s not common for many of those accidents to be fatal. Unfortunately, they do happen on occasion, and sometimes lawsuits are filed as a result. Such is the case of a man “who died after a 2016 explosion at a Glenville asphalt production facility.” As a result of his death, the man’s estate is suing “the owner of the facility and others over his wrongful death.”
Five immigrant children are suing President Donald Trump over “jail-like” conditions and cruel treatment they say received in the custody of federal agents. Filed Friday, the complaint claims that policies being pursued by the Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Department of Health and Human Services are “causing grave harm to children,” both psychologically and
On Friday, a federal jury awarded $17 million to Jacques Rivera, a former inmate who says he was framed for a murder he didn’t commit. The long-time detainee accused three Chicago police detectives of coercing a 12-year old boy into fingering him as the killer in a crime with no other witnesses. One of the
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A former principal at La Canada Unified School District just got the okay from a judge to take her lawsuit to trial. In her lawsuit, the former principal, Christine Castillo, alleges she was the “subject of a backlash after she filed an internal complaint about pregnancy discrimination.”
Legal Reader is pleased to share good news from one of our readers at Maddin Hauser, a Michigan law firm. The press release from June 6, 2018 follows.
A former University of Wisconsin student convicted of stalking and raping three women was sentenced to three years in prison. Alec Cook, sentenced Thursday, June 21st, pled guilty in February to five felonies—three counts of third-degree sexual assault and instances of suffocation and strangulation. Cook was also charged with stalking. FOX2NOW recounts how Cook was
On Monday, the Supreme Court announced it won’t interfere in a South Dakota jury’s decision to execute Charles Rhines. Rhines, convicted of murder, is homosexual—a fact his peers purportedly took to mean he’d enjoy life behind bars. During deliberations leading up to Rhines’ verdict, jurors discussed the killer’s sexuality. The man’s preference for other men