Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown is filing a lawsuit against the city of Milwaukee, claiming police violated his civil rights when they arrested him earlier this year. The lawsuit, which Sporting News reports was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, names the city, Milwaukee police chief Alfonso Morales,
A disturbing lawsuit filed accuses administrators at Shiloh Treatment Center, some ways south of Houston, of subduing immigrant children with psychiatric drugs. The allegations are especially disconcerting in light of President Donald Trump’s recent comments on illegal immigration and the rights of detained children. While the commander-in-chief signed an executive order Wednesday designed to reduce
More than 120 victims of former Michigan State physician Larry Nassar have signed a letter asking the university’s Board of Trustees to replace the school’s interim president. Former Michigan governor John Engler was appointed to head Michigan State after Lou Anna Simon’s departure from the post. Simon—accused of insensitivity and oversight during Nassar’s decades-long crime
Illinois Children Being Held in Psychiatric Hospitals Longer than Necessary
Theranos CEO, COO Indicted on Fraud Charges for Unreliable Testing
Earlier this month Del Monte issued a recall of three batches of fresh-cut vegetables after it was discovered that the products are “linked to a parasite that has caused 78 people across four states to fall ill.” According to the recall notice, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed that the specific contaminated products include “broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, celery, and dip.” So far many of the consumers who ate the recalled products “fell ill with the cyclospora parasite.”
The family of a woman who died in her jail cell on May 12, 2012, recently lost their wrongful death lawsuit they filed in federal court against Douglas County and the sheriff. During the lengthy court proceedings, jurors weighed “allegations against both the county and the sheriff that their jail staff denied or delayed medical care to Rachel Hammers and also had inadequate training.” In the end, the jury found the county and sheriff were not responsible for the death of Hammers. As a result of the verdict, “heirs of Hammers will recover nothing.”
President Donald Trump caved to political pressure on Wednesday, signing an executive order meant to limit the separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border. “We’re going to have strong, very strong borders but we are going to keep the families together,” said Trump, speaking from the Oval Office. “I don’t like the sight or the
An exclusive CNN story recounts how some law students are fighting back against the Supreme Court’s stance on mandatory arbitration clauses in employment contracts. “This isn’t stuff you negotiate,” said one student, who’d received a job offer from a prestigious Silicon Valley law firm. “You go intern for the summer. You get a job offer,
The federal government will pay $400,000 to former U.S. Border Patrol agent Anthony Gazvoda, who claims an assignment along the Texan frontier triggered post-traumatic stress disorder brought on by military service. Gazvoda, a Michigan native and member of the National Guard, initially asked for a posting along the U.S.-Canada border. The government rejected his request,