Ripley Entertainment, the owner of a Branson, MO duck boat that sank in July, has settled its first lawsuit with the remaining family of a couple who died aboard Stretch Duck 07. The Kansas City Star reports that William Bright, 65, and Janice Bright, 63—both from Higginsville, MO—were aboard Stretch Duck 07 on July 19.
If you’re familiar with Planet Fitness, you may know the gym is popular for its affordable pricing and judgment-free workout environment. In fact, the gym’s ‘Judgement-free zone’ slogan is something that Planet Fitness prides itself on, according to CEO Chris Rondeau. The slogan is also one of the reasons why the brand is growing so fast and why it has been “adding 200 new clubs a year,” according to Rondeau.
A lawsuit was recently filed against the New York City Police Department alleging a pregnant woman was “forced to wear handcuffs on her wrists and ankles during labor.” The woman is referred to as Jane Doe throughout the suit and claims that, despite the protests of her medical staff, the “NYPD refused to remove the shackles, compelling Ms. Doe to labor in excruciating pain and forcing doctors to examine Ms. Doe with her feet and hands bound.”
The family of Tiffany Fitzgerald filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Danbury and a former police officer, Jamie Hodge. Back in 2016, Fitzgerald was killed during a car chase with Hodge. It should be noted, however, that Fitzgerald was a passenger, not the driver. The wrongful death suit was filed late last month in New Haven and argues that Hodge, “who had only been on the force for one year, should never have chased the stolen vehicle on the streets of Danbury.” During the chase, the 1997 Ford Explorer that Fitzgerald was riding in crashed, throwing her from the vehicle.
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A group of Iowa inmates intent on overturning the state’s decision to keep pornography out of prisons is beginning to buckle under legal pressure. The Des Moines Register reports that fifty-eight inmates from the Fort Dodge Correctional Center launched the suit in October. Filed in U.S. District Curt, the convicts claimed the pornography ban was
A Miami woman mistakenly booked into an all-men’s jail after law enforcement officers claimed she was lying about her gender has filed a lawsuit against the county. Newsweek reports that Fior Pichardo de Veloz traveled to Miami to see the birth of a grandchild in 2013. She arrested at the airport for an old, unprocessed
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