Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Hit with Another Discrimination Lawsuit
Dr. Elena Pop recently filed a federal lawsuit against Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center over discrimination allegations.
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Starbucks Recalls Bodum Coffee Presses After Receiving Injury Reports
Starbucks is recalling more than 260,000 Bodum + Starbucks Recycled Coffee Presses after receiving complaints of the top knob breaking off, causing laceration and puncture injuries.
Rebuilding After a Fire is a Disaster
Rebuilding after a wildfire can be a disaster itself, since insurance companies, stretched from more and bigger fires, may not pay the full cost of construction or living expenses. Maybe that will encourage us to change the way we think about doing the same thing over and over.
Patient Awarded $110.6 Million in Asthma Attack Lawsuit
Hospital staff inappropriately care for a patient after an asthma attack, leaving her with permanent injuries. She is awarded $110.6 Million.
Study Reveals General Anesthesia Activates Sleep Circuit
Drugs that induce general anesthesia activate the sleep cycle, new research shows, which may help develop better sleep aids.
Kansas Keeps Fining Prison Health Contractor Corizon To No Effect
Even after facing a flurry of lawsuits, analyses indicate that Kansas’s prison health contractor, Corizon, doesn’t meet state standards of care. According to the Associated Press and Kansas City Star, hundreds of documents were looked over in the analysis. Performance reviews ranging from July 2015 to December 2018 showed that inmates were regularly denied the
Trump Administration, DoJ Propose Deporting Legal Immigrants Who Use Public Benefits
Even if the policy doesn’t become law, it’s already punishing struggling migrant families.
SoCal Branch of ACLU Sues Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency to Stop Detainee Transfers
With cooperation between Orange County jails and I.C.E. about to end, the ACLU fears immigrants will be sent far from their families and lawyers.
Immigrant Advocates Sue A.G. Barr for Denying Asylum-Seekers Bond
Barr is trying to give I.C.E. and its affiliates exclusive authority to order immigrants’ release.
African American Student Alleges She was Denied Graduation Honor Due to Race
A lawsuit was just filed against Cleveland Central High School and others after an African American student was denied a graduation honor to allegedly prevent white flight.