Nearly four years after Darren Borges died while in police custody, his family has finally reached a $3.45 million settlement with Humboldt County in the wrongful death lawsuit they filed. In addition to agreeing to the monetary settlement, the county will also “implement health screening protocols before a person is put in a cell,” according to the agreement.
There is a lot of debate about whether safe injection sites are, in fact, safe. Is this really the best way to go for those who struggle with addictions to heroin? Do they do more to damage good neighborhoods than help them? Is this really the way we want to be as a society? Aren’t we just telling people that it’s okay to keep doing what they do, and we’ll help them stay safe again and again?
Transgender Employee Settles Discrimination Lawsuit with Wal-Mart
Delaware Attorney Suspended and Banned from Reviewing Financial Records
Eight years after filing a class-action lawsuit against Hawaii’s Department of Education, almost 500 former students have finally agreed to a multimillion-dollar settlement. The lawsuit itself alleged the students “were illegally denied special education services.” Specifically, it argued that the “DOE violated the federal Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, which requires that states provide free appropriate public education to all people with disabilities who are under age 22,” according to the lawsuit. The suit settled for $10.45 million.
After a 9-year-old Hawaiian girl starved to death while in the care of the state, her family has decided to sue the “state of Hawaii as well as her parents and grandmother for wrongful death.” According to the suit, a number of individuals, organizations, and government departments were negligent in the child’s death, including the “Department of Human Services, Child Protective Services, Child Welfare Services and the Department of Education.”
Newly-appointed New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood is suing the Trump Foundation, along with the president and his children, alleging “extensive and persistent” lawbreaking. Underwood, writes the BBC, claims that Trump’s charitable group engaged in “unlawful political co-ordination” aimed at influencing the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Along with dissolving the foundation, Underwood
On Thursday, the Supreme Court struck down a Minnesota law banning voters from wearing political apparel at polling places. In what the New York Times describes as a ‘cautious 7-2 decision,’ the court recognized the values underlying Minnesota’s intent. Nevertheless, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. opined that the state’s law wasn’t “capable of reasoned
Dallas Agrees to Settlement Over Public Safety Back Wages
Court Upholds Decision to Reduce Wrongful Death Payout, Denies Retrial