The family of a young mother who passed away in a rural jail has settled the lawsuit they filed against the jail for $270,000. The lawsuit was filed against the Mississippi County Detention Center shortly after Somer Nunnally died from an overdose back in May 2015 and alleged that “jailers laughed at Nunnally as she died on the floor of” of her cell.
Losing a child is something no parent should have to go through, especially when the death could have been prevented. Depending on the circumstances, some parents often feel compelled to file lawsuits as a result, such as a woman in South Pasadena who recently filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County alleging “negligence, wrongful death, and violation of the state Penal Code.” The woman, Ana Estevez, alleges in her lawsuit that the city’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is partly to blame for the death of her 5-year-old son.
A jury awarded a Montana man $20,000 after Wells Fargo mistakenly seized his home in 2014. The Jefferson County jury’s verdict may have been more beneficial to the bank than Kevin Moore, whose home was foreclosed when he was in Alaska. Moore had been seeking at least $600,000 in compensatory damages and wanted to see
California is the latest entrant in a series of lawsuit against Navient, the nation’s largest servicer of student loans. On Thursday, state attorney general Xavier Becerra said he’d initiate litigation against the company, accusing of it widespread deception and error. California says Navient’s misdeeds and oversights cost borrowers millions of dollars. As the New York
Who doesn’t like ice cream, especially when it’s low carb and low calorie? That’s what Halo Top ice cream is marketed as. However, while marketed as a guilt-free treat, a recent lawsuit claims the makers of Halo Top are “guilty of short-scooping customers.” The class-action lawsuit was filed by “two people from California” in U.S. District Court in San Diego and alleges that “Halo Top underfills its pints dramatically so at times.”
Workplace accidents happen, but it’s not common for many of those accidents to be fatal. Unfortunately, they do happen on occasion, and sometimes lawsuits are filed as a result. Such is the case of a man “who died after a 2016 explosion at a Glenville asphalt production facility.” As a result of his death, the man’s estate is suing “the owner of the facility and others over his wrongful death.”
Five immigrant children are suing President Donald Trump over “jail-like” conditions and cruel treatment they say received in the custody of federal agents. Filed Friday, the complaint claims that policies being pursued by the Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Department of Health and Human Services are “causing grave harm to children,” both psychologically and
Teens in Confinement Suffered Mentally and Emotionally, Lawsuit Claims
Former Rep Claims Purdue Offered Incentives to Sell More OxyContin
A former principal at La Canada Unified School District just got the okay from a judge to take her lawsuit to trial. In her lawsuit, the former principal, Christine Castillo, alleges she was the “subject of a backlash after she filed an internal complaint about pregnancy discrimination.”