A wrongful death lawsuit was recently filed against the Sterling Park District after 10-year-old Kaden Beer died “after falling from his bike and hitting his head at a skate park.” The incident occurred on October 1, 2017, and Beer, a “fifth-grader at Lincoln Elementary School…died 5 days later at a Peoria hospital.”
Back in March of this year, 20-year-old Brett D. Rodgers II was shot and killed “on the premises of the Hog Wild Saloon,” and his family wants justice. Earlier this week, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed in Sullivan County Circuit Court regarding the incident, and it claims that Rodgers would “still be alive id Hog Wild Saloon had provided adequate security.”
The Seneca Park Zoo Society is at the center of a federal age discrimination lawsuit filed by its former director of education, Bartholomew Roselli. The suit alleges that Roselli was “the victim of age discrimination when he was fired in 2017.” According to the suit, Roselli, now 65-years-old, “was hired by the Seneca Park Zoo Society in 2009 as the director of education and interpretation, which involved serving as a public-facing leader of public programs and exhibits and managing about 25 people.” The zoo itself is supported by the Seneca Park Zoo Society and operated by Monroe County.
A San Quentin psychiatrist has been awarded $800,00 after he accused corrections staff of illegal retaliation. Christopher Wadsworth, who the Sacramento Bee reports served as the prison’s chief psychiatrist, received the settlement last year. Wadsworth accused the state of endangering prisoners’ lives by adopting an unsafe mental health policy. That protocol, says Wadsworth’s suit, tied
Two more victims of last year’s deadly train derailment in DuPont, Washington have filed lawsuits against Amtrak. The suits say the railway company violated the state’s Consumer Protection Act, leading to a derailment which killed three passengers and injured dozens more. According to Seattle Pi, the suits were filed by Phillip Riedel, widower of passenger
Sears Holding Corp. is at the center of a new lawsuit alleging the bankrupt retailer failed to pay for its merchandise. The suit was filed by In Gear Fashions, a Miami-based clothing vendor, earlier this week in Cook County Circuit Court and names Sears Holding Corp., CEO Edward Lampert, Lampert’s “private equity firm ESL Investments and Kmart, which is a subsidiary of Sears” as defendants. The suit was filed mere days after the now bankrupt retailer filed for “Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on October 15.”
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Earlier this week, Horning Brothers, a vegetable-packing house in Grant County, Washington agreed to pay $525,000 to settle a lawsuit that claimed a “supervisor groped, propositioned and retaliated against female workers over a period of years.” The suit was filed by Attorney General Bob Ferguson and the settlement agreement was announced yesterday. According to Ferguson, the settlement is “believed to be the largest civil-rights resolution for the state in Washington history.”
Mo’s Fisherman Exchange Inc., the company that owns and operates Mo’s Seafood restaurants recently agreed to pay $1 million to settle a dispute with 34 former workers that claimed in a lawsuit that the restaurant chain underpaid them. However, despite the settlement, the company “did not admit to liability under the terms of the settlement of the suit.”
A California prison psychologist who claims she was locked up in a cell with a convicted rapist as punishment for defending transgender inmates has accepted a $275,000 settlement. Lois Jespersen, who the Sacramento Bee says worked for the California Department of Corrections since 2008, left her post as part of the agreement. The settlement forbids