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City of Wilmington Hit With Religious Discrimination Suit After Muslim Students, Teacher Kicked Out of Public Pool

- August 23, 2018

A lawsuit was recently filed against the City of Wilmington after it allegedly discriminated against a “teacher and her young Muslim students.” According to the lawsuit, the teacher and her students were “asked to leave a public pool in June,” and other members of the Darul Amaanah Academy, where the students attended, claim they have “been repeatedly harassed by management and staff at the Foster Brown Pool.”

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Judge Says Trump Could Be Held Liable for Security Team’s 2015 Assault on Mexican Protesters

- August 23, 2018

A New York judge discarded President Trump’s claims that his security team couldn’t be held responsible for an attack on peaceful Mexican protesters at a 2015 rally. The Washington Post reports that Bronx Supreme Court Judge Fernando Tapia denied the commander-in-chief’s motion to dismiss ‘allegations of assault and battery and destruction of property.’ While the

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Koch Foods Agrees to Pay $3.75M to Settle Discrimination Lawsuit

- August 22, 2018

Koch Food of Mississippi LLC agreed to a $3.75 million settlement earlier this week, ending a discrimination lawsuit that was filed by “11 workers at the Morton plant and another filed on behalf of the workers by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.” The settlement agreement was filed in federal court in Jackson on Tuesday with U.S. District Judge Dan Jordan signing off on the three-year consent decree outlining the settlement terms. But what happened? Why was the lawsuit filed against the company in the first place?

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Lawsuit Accuses Google of Tracking Consumers’ Movements Without Consent

- August 22, 2018

A lawsuit accuses Google of tracking consumers’ movements and data even when they’ve ticked options to opt out. The complaint, filed Friday, accuses the company of offering customers false assurances. Google users are told they won’t be tracked if they turn off the service’s “Location History.” However, services like Maps may continue doing just that—regardless

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Civil Suit Filed Against Massage Envy Over Sexual Assault Claims

- August 21, 2018

Massage Envy is back in the news, this time in connection to a civil lawsuit that was recently filed by five women. In the suit, the women allege that “male massage therapists sexually assaulted them before and during massages at franchise locations in the Bay Area, Sacramento and Southern California.” It was filed in San Mateo County and comes nearly a year after an investigation conducted by Buzzfeed News found that “more than 180 people have filed sexual assault lawsuits, police reports, and state board complaints against Massage Envy spas, their employees, and the national company.”

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Settlement Agreement Could Help Keep Mentally Ill Out of Washington Jails

- August 17, 2018

A lawsuit between Disability Rights Washington and the Department of Social and Health Services in Washington settled yesterday. The suit revolved around a lawsuit filed by Disability Rights Washington back in 2014 on behalf of “mentally ill people who’ve been warehoused in jails for weeks or months while awaiting competency services.” When the lawsuit was first filed, it was seeking “relief for criminal defendants who were languishing for months in county jails while waiting to be evaluated to see if they were competent to help in their defense.” Those who were eventually found incompetent often had to wait additional “weeks or months before being taken to a state-run mental hospital for treatment.” As a result, the suit argued that the state “was violating their constitutional rights.”

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Georgia Nurse Sues Over Medical Staff Safety in State Prisons

- August 17, 2018

A lawsuit filed by a George nurse questions just how safe medical staff working in the state’s prisons really are. The Associated Press and Atlanta Journal-Constitution report that 42-year old Alicia Butler is suing the Department of Corrections over a 2016 attack. Butler says officials failed to properly supervise inmate Carlos Johnson, Jr., incarcerated at

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City of Omaha, Douglas County Hit with Negligence Suit

- August 16, 2018

For many people, calling 911 means help will arrive promptly to help with virtually any type of emergency, including asthma attacks. Unfortunately for one woman in Omaha, Nebraska, help didn’t arrive soon enough when she began suffering from an asthma attack. That delay in help resulted in her death, and now her family is suing. The suit itself was filed against the City of Omaha and Douglas County by the family of Cristine Herek and argues that “Douglas County 911 personnel were negligent in failing to locate Herek in time to save her life.” Attorney Ben White filed the suit on behalf of one of Herek’s sons, Angelo Emmanuel, and her estate. The city and county are both named as defendants because much of “Douglas County 911’s funding comes from the city.”

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