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
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There have been new developments in the Trump University lawsuit. In response to Sherri B. Simpson, “who is appealing the [approved] settlement,” attorney’s “representing thousands of class members in the lawsuits” are now asking Simpson to “post a $220,833 bond.” The reason for the bond is to “protect the class members against the risk of non-payment should” Simpson lose her appeal, and will also cover things like “court, attorney, administrative and class-servicing costs,” according to a motion filed by attorney Rachel Jensen.