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Hawaii DOE and Nearly 500 Former Students Reach $10.25M Lawsuit Settlement

- June 14, 2018

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.

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Family Files Wrongful Death Against Hawaii and Other Government Agencies After Girl Starves to Death

- June 14, 2018

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.”

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New York’s New A.G. Sues the Trump Foundation

- June 14, 2018

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

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CPI: Ajit Pai and the FCC’s Rationale on Net Neutrality ‘Shallow at Best and Ridiculous at Worst”

- June 13, 2018

When Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai decided to scrap net neutrality, he claimed that Obama-era regulations were slowing down the nationwide deployment of broadband services. A new analysis from the Center for Public Integrity, published Tuesday, calls Pai’s reasoning ‘shallow at best and ridiculous at worst.’ The conclusion shouldn’t come as a shock—Pai’s decision

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Paul Ryan Promises Immigration Bill That’d Save Dreamers and Build Trump’s Promised Wall

- June 13, 2018

A Tuesday meeting between moderate Republicans and House Speaker Paul Ryan could culminate in the release of a new immigration bill, intended to circumvent a Democrat-led discharge petition. Created after weeks negotiations between Ryan, centrists and the right-wing Freedom Caucus, the endeavor remains endangered by political uncertainty. Nevertheless, optimism seems on the rise in conservative

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CDC Issues Warning about Pre-Cut Melon Amid Multistate Salmonella Outbreak

- June 13, 2018

For your Father’s Day cookout this Sunday, you may want to skip the pre-cut melon. According to a recent recall issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), certain containers of pre-cut melon has “been linked to a Salmonella outbreak” that has already sickened more than 60 people throughout eight states.

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