A wrongful death lawsuit was recently filed against the Sterling Park District after 10-year-old Kaden Beer died “after falling from his bike and hitting his head at a skate park.” The incident occurred on October 1, 2017, and Beer, a “fifth-grader at Lincoln Elementary School…died 5 days later at a Peoria hospital.”
The GOP and their appointees take aim at Native rights in the voting booth and in adoption court. The good news? Women are fighting back in record numbers!
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Earlier this week, officials with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a recall alert for an estimated 1.4 million “pressure-assisted flushing systems manufactured between 1996 and 2013 after nearly 1,500 of the systems burst in toilet tanks.” So far, the incidents of exploding toilets have resulted in 23 injuries and nearly $710,000 in damages. In one case, the unsuspecting victim was injured so severely they had to undergo foot surgery.
Back in March of this year, 20-year-old Brett D. Rodgers II was shot and killed “on the premises of the Hog Wild Saloon,” and his family wants justice. Earlier this week, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed in Sullivan County Circuit Court regarding the incident, and it claims that Rodgers would “still be alive id Hog Wild Saloon had provided adequate security.”
The Seneca Park Zoo Society is at the center of a federal age discrimination lawsuit filed by its former director of education, Bartholomew Roselli. The suit alleges that Roselli was “the victim of age discrimination when he was fired in 2017.” According to the suit, Roselli, now 65-years-old, “was hired by the Seneca Park Zoo Society in 2009 as the director of education and interpretation, which involved serving as a public-facing leader of public programs and exhibits and managing about 25 people.” The zoo itself is supported by the Seneca Park Zoo Society and operated by Monroe County.
A massive migrant caravan headed for the United States ran into trouble Friday, with participants forced to square off against security forces. Between 1,500 and 4,500 migrants attempted to enter Mexico from Guatemala. With a river separating the two countries, some members opted to jump off a border bridge to try swimming across. Law enforcement
Sears Holding Corp. is at the center of a new lawsuit alleging the bankrupt retailer failed to pay for its merchandise. The suit was filed by In Gear Fashions, a Miami-based clothing vendor, earlier this week in Cook County Circuit Court and names Sears Holding Corp., CEO Edward Lampert, Lampert’s “private equity firm ESL Investments and Kmart, which is a subsidiary of Sears” as defendants. The suit was filed mere days after the now bankrupt retailer filed for “Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on October 15.”
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