In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for citizens to sue law enforcement in instances wherein police barge into a home and provoke a shooting. The decision set aside a $4 million verdict that had been awarded to a homeless couple against two Los Angeles County deputies. The case
Woman Damages $350K Worth Of Items In Ex’s Home
Bernards Township, NJ, officials will pay a Muslim organization $3.25 million under the terms of a federal lawsuit. The details of the award and its stipulations were released Tuesday. On top of having to write a large check, Bernards Township officials agreed to provide diversity and inclusion training for its current and future planning board
Settlements Issued To Families Of Those Killed By Officers
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday ruled that a transgender student from Wisconsin must be allowed to use the bathroom suiting their gender identity in school. The decision was praised by lawyers for 17-year old Ashton Whitaker. Reuters reports the ruling was the first time a federal appellate court upheld the notion that transgender students
A case involving a mentally ill woman and the Broward Sheriff’s Office was recently settled for $30,000. The case itself began when the mentally ill woman, Dasyl Rios, was “dragged across a courthouse hallway by a Broward sheriff’s detention deputy” back in early 2015. The horrible incident sparked national headlines at the time, and was made more horrible when cellphone footage was released showing Rios being “dragged by the shackles around her ankles by Christopher Johnson, a detention deputy.” On the video, she was heard screaming, “You’re hurting me!”
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., dismissed a lawsuit brought against Hillary Clinton over the deaths of two Americans in the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson dismissed the ‘wrongful death’ portion of the lawsuit on technical grounds. The complaint levied against Clinton suggested
Railway Disaster Lawsuits Are Dropped
Litigation against Fox News is moving forward following the death of the network’s former chairman and chief executive officer, Roger Ailes. The Washington Post reported on Monday that three new lawsuits alleging a ‘hostile work environment’ were filed in the days after Ailes’ death. Although the late corporate helmsman was a witness and defendant in
Doctors Receiving Kickbacks For Fentanyl Are Prosecuted