A district judge based in White Hall, Arkansas, is accused of operating a ‘debtors’ prison,’ repeatedly locking up citizens too impoverished to cover court fines and fees. Local and national civil rights organizations are taking up the case of six Arkansas residents who claim they were caught up in an inescapable circuit of punishment. Each
Lawsuits Allege JUUL is Deceptively Marketing Products to Teens
Charter School Parents Say They Didn’t Know About Asbestos
United is under fire once again, this time in connection to sexually explicit photos of a flight attendant that one of its pilots allegedly posted online. According to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), United knew the pilot was posting the “humiliating, explicit photos of the flight attendant online” for years without doing anything to stop it.
Remember that man who attacked a couple in their Florida home in 2016 by biting, beating, and stabbing them? At the time of the attack, many were quick to say that the young college man simply suffered from a mental illness. However, the family of the woman who was attacked, Michelle Mischcon Stevens, filed a wrongful death lawsuit earlier this week against Austin Harrouff, the young man who attacked her and her husband.
Maddin, Hauser, Roth & Heller, P.C., is pleased to announce that Kaitlin A. Brown has been named the recipient of the 2018 Regeana Myrick Outstanding Young Lawyer Award from the State Bar of Michigan Young Lawyers Section.
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Federal officers descended upon the small Nebraska town of O’Neill early Wednesday morning, detaining over one-hundred illegal immigrants. Workers were taken from rural tomato plants, cattle feedlots and potato processing facilities. A dozen others were detained on suspicion of conspiring to exploit illegal labor for profit, fraud and money laundering. The Omaha World-Herald reports that
An Islamic advocacy organization is planning to sue the federal government over its terror watchlist. USA Today reports the suit touches on a recently revealed program—operating under federal instruction, air marshals allegedly kept tabs on air passengers with no known links to terror groups. Gadeir Abbas, senior litigation attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations,
Protests at the headquarters of for-profit prison corporation CoreCivic are drawing attention to the company’s practice of denying diabetics timely treatment. Three inmates have sued CoreCivic over its medical practices. Plaintiffs say they’re provided sub-standard healthcare. Insulin shots are administered without routine, complicating detainees’ ability to regulate their blood sugar. A class-action suit filed earlier