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Lyon County School District Discrimination Lawsuit Ends with Settlement

- June 26, 2018

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.”

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Nazis Achieved Space Travel? That’s What One Recalled Flying Saucer Toy Was Teaching Kids

- June 26, 2018

If you’re a history buff then you probably already know that the Nazis were tinkering with a secret program throughout World War II to construct flying saucers. While the program never actually took off, a model toy company, Revell, recently “released a set in Germany that makes it look like one of the Nazi saucers actually worked.” Understandably, historians aren’t too pleased and a recall has now been issued for the flying saucers toys.

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Kari Dunn’s Family Awarded $42M in Wrongful Death Suit Against Husband, Hotel

- June 22, 2018

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.

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Senior Eviction Case Ends with $200K Settlement

- June 22, 2018

A $200,000 settlement has been reached in a lawsuit between landlord David Kantz and the son of woman Kantz evicted to “make way for redevelopment of his California Drive property.” The evicted woman was Marie Hatch and she filed the lawsuit against Kantz after he evicted her from her “longtime Burlingame home.” Unfortunately, she passed away at the age of 97 in 2016, leaving her son Gary to take her place in the financial elder abuse case.

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Woman Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Lompoc Valley Medical Center After Husband’s Death

- June 22, 2018

After losing her husband over complications following a stay at Lompoc Valley Medical Center, Crystal Rodriguez filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the medical center. In the lawsuit, Rodriguez accuses the medical center of “negligence after her husband allegedly developed cellulitis, Toxic Shock Syndrome, and other complications while under the hospital’s care.” According to the suit, Lompoc Valley Medical Center staff allegedly failed to “closely monitoring Daniel Rodriguez and released him early, despite his condition worsening just a few days after his admittance to the hospital in May 2017.” Sadly, he died May 19, 2017, at the young age of 32.

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