Michigan State University is suing its insurance carriers for refusing to cover the financial fallout of its recent sexual assault scandal. The university issued a statement announcing the suit last Thursday. It named 13 of its insurance providers as defendants. “We are suing our carriers, including our largest carrier United Educators, for failing to honor
Shortly after Defense Distributed and the company’s owner, Cody Wilson, got the green light to continue publishing “designs and other technical files” for 3D printed guns, lawsuits are already pouring in to stop it. Earlier this week, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit “against the Trump Administration to stop the publication of plans for 3D-printer guns on the Internet.”
In the aftermath of the fatal ‘duck boat’ accident that left 17 people dead, the families of four of the victims decided to file a lawsuit against the tour operator, claiming “Ride the Ducks endangered passengers by letting the boat out on the water after the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the area, and that passengers were not told to put on life jackets.” The vessel operated that fateful day was a “World War Two-style tourist ‘duck boat’ that sank on a Missouri lake during a storm earlier this month.”
Glover Family Reaches Settlement with Metro, Judge Dismisses Case
In a new lawsuit filed yesterday, nurse Meshea Rodgers is accusing the “operators of the privately run Wilkinson County Correctional Center in Woodville of negligence for not properly protecting her” when an inmate allegedly “threw boiling urine on her.” The incident resulted in “first-, second- and third-degree burns” for Rodgers, who was a licensed practical nurse at the facility back on July 26, 2016.
A lawsuit was recently filed by a former Medical College of Wisconsin professor after she was allegedly disciplined for “arriving late to work after attending a religious service on an Islamic holiday and was ultimately terminated as retaliation when she filed a religious discrimination complaint.” The former professor, Zainab Basir, was employed by the medical college for almost “20 years when her contract ended in February.”
Posting Derogatory Comments Online Against Doctors Invites Litigation
The American Civil Liberties Union in New Jersey is suing a dozen schools and districts across the state, accusing them of denying immigrants an education. According to the ACLU, enrollment is restricted to students who can provide Social Security numbers or show proof of legal residency. If true, the districts would be violating New Jersey
The Minnesota Supreme Court remanded a high-stakes school segregation lawsuit on Wednesday, one year after an appeals court had thrown the case out. The 4-2 ruling settles a question that had plagued the litigation since its inception: whether the provision of adequate education is an issue best taken up courts or congress. Writing for the
According to a lawsuit recently filed in San Diego, “illegal and dangerous erection-inducing products containing Viagra and Cialis are being deceptively sold across” in convenience stores, liquor, and smoke shops throughout the city. Many of the products are labeled with “sexually suggestive names, including Black Stallion 35000, Rhino 69, and New Stiff Nights Platinum 10K” and are marketed as dietary or natural supplements.