The Supreme Court dealt a sharp blow to organized labor on Wednesday. In a 5-4 vote, the justices ruled that government workers who turn down union membership can’t have their pay docked to fund collective bargaining. Writing for the conservative-led majority, Justice Samuel Alito Jr. opined that wage deductions pose a constitutional violation. “We conclude
A wrongful death lawsuit involving the city of Seattle and the family of a Kokomo couple who died after being “struck by a habitual driver” recently settled for $13 million. The lawsuit was filed by the couple’s family against the city of Seattle and claimed that city “officials were negligent in keeping track” of the driver, Mark Mullan. Prior to the accident, Mullan had “five previous drunk driving arrests,” according to the lawsuit. Because of that, the family argued throughout the court proceedings that, “had Mullan been properly supervised, he would not have been behind the wheel on the day of the crash.”
Last Friday, a judge found the Arizona Department of Corrections and its administrators in civil contempt of court for failing to meet the conditions of a 2014 settlement concerning the quality of healthcare in state prisons. Arizona DOC director Charles Ryan and medical director Richard Pratt were both named in the ruling, which will emplace
In a much-awaited Tuesday decision, the Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s travel ban. The justices split primarily along party lines, voting 5-4 to affirm the president’s power to curb immigration in the interest of national security. The latest version of the ban—which was issued several times before being sent to the Supreme Court—places travel
A settlement was recently reached between two African-American students, the city of Yerington, and the Lyon County School District. In a federal discrimination lawsuit filed earlier this year, the students, 15-year-old sisters, Jayla Tolliver and Taylissa Marriott were allegedly subjected to “repeated racial bullying at their rural Nevada high school.” The bullying and discrimination occurred when the sisters were freshmen at Yerington High. Their parents decided to file the lawsuit back in January alleging the girls “had been subjected to repeated racial slurs and threats for at least six months.”
Iowa Cop Kills Mother of Three, Family Receives $2 Million Settlement
Target Class Action Payout Objection Rejected in Second Go-round
Losing a parent is a difficult ordeal for any child, but even more difficult when both parents are lost. Sadly, this is exactly what happened to the children of Kari Dunn, a woman who was needlessly murdered back in 2013. As a result of her death, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed that recently settled in favor of the late mother’s family after a jury determined that “Kari’s estranged husband and killer Brad Dunn as well as the hotel he fatally stabbed her at, were both at fault for her death.” The jury deliberated for a handful of hours before agreeing to award the family $42 million in damages.
A group of Amazon warehouse workers is celebrating after California Cartage Co. and the staffing companies agreed to pay up to $1.9 million to resolve the worker’s allegations of wage-and-hour violations and retaliation.
The family of a woman who died in her jail cell on May 12, 2012, recently lost their wrongful death lawsuit they filed in federal court against Douglas County and the sheriff. During the lengthy court proceedings, jurors weighed “allegations against both the county and the sheriff that their jail staff denied or delayed medical care to Rachel Hammers and also had inadequate training.” In the end, the jury found the county and sheriff were not responsible for the death of Hammers. As a result of the verdict, “heirs of Hammers will recover nothing.”