Lawyer Disbarred After Appearing Intoxicated at Disciplinary Hearing
Lawyer Disbarred After Appearing Intoxicated at Disciplinary Hearing
Iowa Man Who Blogged About Stinky City Wins Free Speech Lawsuit
A free-speech lawsuit settled earlier today regarding an Iowa man who claimed he was “threatened by city officials with legal action for saying on a website that his hometown smelled like ‘rancid dog food.’” The man, Josh Harms, filed the lawsuit earlier this month in U.S. District Court in an effort to prevent “Sibley officials from suing him.” At the end of the day, the court sided with Harms and awarded him damages.
When States Drag Their Feet on Marijuana Legalization
On July 1, 2018, recreational marijuana is expected to become legal in Canada and Vermont. The difference is that Vermont is only legalizing possession and limited, small-scale cultivation, not commercial growth and sale. Vermonters will have to buy their cannabis elsewhere or grow their own.
Rancher Arrested After Hundreds of Dead Cows Discovered on Properties
Rancher Arrested After Hundreds of Dead Cows Discovered on Properties
Mondelez Age Discrimination Lawsuit Results in $200K Verdict
Have you ever been discriminated against for your age? One former manager at Mondelez International was, and filed a lawsuit as a result. Fortunately for her, that lawsuit ended with a jury verdict for $200,000. Joan Konsavage, a long-time employee of Mondelez International, first began getting hints from her supervisor that she should “step aside and let younger employees shine” back during the summer of 2013. Shortly before the comments began, the company, a “multibillion-dollar snack-food giant…split off from Kraft Foods and was building a new team at its Wilkes-Barre distribution center.” However, Konsavage, who was 50-years-old at the time, had no plans of retiring any time some and was not a fan of her boss’s suggestions. In addition, she had a growing list of other concerns that began around the same time.
Attorneys General and Civil Rights Advocates Rile Over New Citizenship Question on 2020 Census
A collection of states are busy preparing legal action against the Trump administration after its Commerce Department announced that a new citizenship question will begin appearing on the 2020 U.S. Census. Including a question on citizenship status was enough to send congressional Democrats and civil rights advocates into a near-frenzy. According to Politico.com, the pressure
Why is the Number of Wrongful Death Cases by Car Accidents Increasing?
According to the National Safety Council, an American is killed every three minutes by a preventable accident—most often a vehicle accident, followed by drug overdoses, falls and drownings. In 2016, a person’s chances of dying in a motor vehicle accident were 1 in 102, which means that as deaths from auto accidents increase, so do wrongful death cases.
Judge Accused of Trying to Cover Up Sexual Relationships
Judge Accused of Trying to Cover Up Sexual Relationships
Co-Owner of Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts Arrested in Connection with Fatal Accident
Almost two years after the tragic accident at Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts claimed the life of 10-year-old Caleb Schwab, the co-owner of the waterpark, Jeffrey Wayne Henry, has been arrested. Currently, Henry is being held without bond “in Texas pending his return to Kansas to face charges in connection with the accident that caused the boy’s death.” Last week the “company’s Kansas City, Kansas park and its former director of operations, Tyler Austin Miles, were indicted in Kansas state court,” and soon after a federal warrant was issued for his arrest.
7 Ways to Overcome Challenges in Today’s Hectic World
Everyone faces challenges in life. Whatever those challenges, overcoming them can be a matter of simply rising to meet and then surmounting them. For some, however, the ability to rise to the occasion and defeat life’s difficulties does not come as naturally as it does to others. For those individuals, they may need more than just the inspiring words of “Rise to the occasion!” While helpful and positive, they simply might not know how to do such a thing.