Lawyer Disbarred After Appearing Intoxicated at Disciplinary Hearing
Lawyer Disbarred After Appearing Intoxicated at Disciplinary Hearing
Lawsuits & Litigation
Iowa Man Who Blogged About Stinky City Wins Free Speech Lawsuit
A free-speech lawsuit settled earlier today regarding an Iowa man who claimed he was “threatened by city officials with legal action for saying on a website that his hometown smelled like ‘rancid dog food.’” The man, Josh Harms, filed the lawsuit earlier this month in U.S. District Court in an effort to prevent “Sibley officials from suing him.” At the end of the day, the court sided with Harms and awarded him damages.
Mondelez Age Discrimination Lawsuit Results in $200K Verdict
Have you ever been discriminated against for your age? One former manager at Mondelez International was, and filed a lawsuit as a result. Fortunately for her, that lawsuit ended with a jury verdict for $200,000. Joan Konsavage, a long-time employee of Mondelez International, first began getting hints from her supervisor that she should “step aside and let younger employees shine” back during the summer of 2013. Shortly before the comments began, the company, a “multibillion-dollar snack-food giant…split off from Kraft Foods and was building a new team at its Wilkes-Barre distribution center.” However, Konsavage, who was 50-years-old at the time, had no plans of retiring any time some and was not a fan of her boss’s suggestions. In addition, she had a growing list of other concerns that began around the same time.
Attorneys General and Civil Rights Advocates Rile Over New Citizenship Question on 2020 Census
A collection of states are busy preparing legal action against the Trump administration after its Commerce Department announced that a new citizenship question will begin appearing on the 2020 U.S. Census. Including a question on citizenship status was enough to send congressional Democrats and civil rights advocates into a near-frenzy. According to Politico.com, the pressure
Judge Accused of Trying to Cover Up Sexual Relationships
Judge Accused of Trying to Cover Up Sexual Relationships
Attorney Argues He Shot His Wife to Death by Accident
Attorney Argues He Shot His Wife to Death by Accident
Does Lyft Discriminate Against Disabled Customers?
Lyft was recently hit with a class-action lawsuit filed by Disability Rights Advocates after two people alleged the company discriminated against them by not “making available wheelchair-accessible cars in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Filed in Alameda County Superior Court, the lawsuit goes on to accuse the ride-sharing company of directly violating “the law by not providing an equal and accessible transportation option to all.” In addition, in failing to provide wheelchair access to customers, the lawsuit alleged “Lyft is in violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act, which guarantees people with disabilities are entitled to full and equal accommodations, and claims the company is in “violation of the California Disabled Persons Act.”
There’s Something in the Water
In Texas, Michigan, Puerto Rico, and lakes and oceans around the world, there’s something in the water that shouldn’t be there and which isn’t good for us.
J&J To Pay Record $35 Million in Product Liability Case
J&J To Pay Record $35 Million in Product Liability Case
Settlement Reached Between Jeep Grand Cherokee and Family of Late Actor, Anton Yelchin
In July 2016, actor Anton Yelchin was found pinned between “his Jeep and a brick pillar outside his house,” dead. Now, nearly two years later, that parents of the Star Trek star reached a settlement with Fiat Chrysler, the makers of the Jeep Grand Cherokee that “crushed their son in his driveway in a what’s been deemed a freak accident,” according to court documents.