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Will the Chicopee City Council Settle a Gender Discrimination Lawsuit for $140K?

- May 1, 2018

Recently it was determined that the Chicopee city council will be asked to fork over $140,000 to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit. The lawsuit itself was filed by Nicholle Huber back in 2016 in the U.S. District Court and claimed “she was hired to repair and maintain city vehicles only to have that offer rescinded four days later because of her gender.” The city and the “supervisor of the central maintenance garage,” Allen Ryczek, were named in the suit.

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McKeen and Associates Wins Genesys Medical Malpractice Appeal

- May 1, 2018

Justice was served for a mother and her injured infant in Flint, Michigan on April 9 as McKeen & Associates won an appeal filed by Genesys Regional Medical Center. Genesys lost the medical malpractice suit at the Circuit Court level and challenged the $2.9M verdict. What follows is a press release from McKeen & Associates, detailing this victory.

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Wrongfully Imprisoned Martin Tankleff Wins $10m Settlement

- April 27, 2018

Martin Tankleff served 17 years in prison, convicted of murdering his own parents. Last Thursday, the middle-age man who spent half his life behind bars settled with Suffolk County, N.Y., for $10 million. Following a chamber vote, the Ways and Means Committee of the local legislature approved the full amount for disbursement. Tankleff reached another,

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The Verdict Is In: Bill Cosby Found Guilty of Sexual Assault

- April 27, 2018

Yesterday, Bill Cosby was finally found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault, bringing closure to dozens of women who claimed the comedian “drugged and sexually abused them.” Though the statue of limitations had ended for many of the women, the case the ended yesterday revolved around the “2004 assault of Andrea Costand, who said Cosby had given her pills in his suburban Pennsylvania home that left her incapacitated and then molested her.”

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Settlement Reached in Mississippi Gulf Coast County Coroner Discrimination Lawsuit

- April 26, 2018

A settlement has finally been reached between a Mississippi Gulf Coast county and its coroner and six black-owned funeral homes. The settlement brings an end to a racial discrimination lawsuit that shed light on allegations that county coroner Gary Hargrove “steered county business to two white-owned funeral homes to the detriment of the black-owned funeral homes, alleging federal civil rights and state law violations against a backdrop of a business that remains starkly segregated by race in the Deep South,” according to the lawsuit.

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Illinois AG Sues Bizarrely and Unabashedly Racist Bus Company Suburban Express

- April 26, 2018

Illinois bus company Suburban Express is facing a civil rights lawsuit after making a politically incorrect marketing pitch. State Attorney General Lisa Madigan launched the litigation, promising to put Suburban Express out of business for insulting Chinese students attending the University of Illinois. The Chicago Sun Times reports that the company touched off a ‘political

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