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Lawsuit Filed After Kindergarten Girl Sustains Burns During a Fall in Her School Cafeteria

- November 22, 2018

When most kids visit their cafeteria for their lunch break, they do so with the expectation that they will be able to eat their lunch in peace, without fear of getting hurt. However, one kindergartener in Tennessee found out that the unexpected can even happen in the lunch room. According to a lawsuit recently filed in Shelby County, a kindergarten student was “burned so badly by food at a Tennessee school that she had to be treated at a local hospital.” The suit itself was filed by the girl’s mother and names “Shelby County Schools as the defendant.”

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Reverses Civil Rights Procedures

- November 22, 2018

Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is reversing her stance on how the agency investigates civil rights complaints. Education Week reports that, as of November 20th, the department is revising its Office of Civil Rights case-processing manual. Specifically, DeVos is backpedaling a recently-implemented instruction for investigators to dismiss multiple civil rights complaints if they originate

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Women Who Broke Several Bones Going Down a Closed Slide File Lawsuit Against Broadway at the Beach and Others

- November 21, 2018

Earlier this month, a lawsuit was filed against Broadway at the Beach, Burroughs and Chapin after two women from New York suffered injuries and broken bones when they went down a slide at Broadway on the Beach. The two women are Jillian McGovern and Ally Mulcahy. According to their lawsuit, the two were visiting Myrtle Beach “during the weekend of April 29, 2017, for a friend’s wedding.” After the wedding, McGovern and Mulcahy headed back to their hotel but stopped by Pavilion Park Central along the way. Pavilion Park Central was where the slide was.

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Family Files First Lawsuit Involving Fatal NY Limo Crash

- November 21, 2018

Last month, a limousine crashed in upstate New York, killing 20 people. Now, the parents of one of the victims are suing the car’s operators, alleging gross negligence “in putting the dangerous and defective vehicle on the road.” The suit was filed by the parents of Amanda Rivenburg, who was 29-years-old at the time of the accident. She was among the 18 people riding in the limo when it “barreled through a stop sign at the bottom of a hill and crashed into a ravine in rural Schoharie, New York on Oct. 6.” In addition to the 18 vehicle passengers, two pedestrians were also killed in the accident.

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County Rules in Favor of Wrongfully Convicted Man

- November 20, 2018

Earlier this week, Cook County commissioners voted in favor of a homeless man who was wrongly imprisoned in connection to false rape allegations. As a result, the commissioners approved a $3.7 million settlement in the lawsuit filed by the man, Carl Chatman, in response to his ordeal. According to Chatman’s suit, he was “wrongly imprisoned after a clerk at the Daley Center fabricated a rape claim as part of a scheme to sue the county.”

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Judge Blocks Trump Rules Against Asylum-Seekers

- November 20, 2018

A federal judge issued a late-night ruling Monday, blocking the Trump administration from saying ‘no’ to certain asylum-seekers. The case, filed as a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union, addresses whether immigrants who cross the United States border illegally can still apply for asylum. News of a U.S.-bound migrant caravan prompted President Trump to

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