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Parents File Suit for Children Injured on Washington Tilt-A-Whirl Ride
Aug 31 2021 // The families of children who were injured on the Tilt-A-Whirl at the Kitsap County Fair in Washington in 2018 are suing the owner of the amusement company that operated the ride at the fair’s carnival and its...
Law Firms Battle Lawsuits Calling for SPAC Regulation
Aug 30 2021 // The legal tussle around special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) intensified on Friday as a group of U.S. law firms hit out against lawsuits last week that called for blank-check firms to be regulated as investment...
Nirvana Sued in California by Man Who Was Nude Baby On Album Cover
Aug 27 2021 // A 30-year-old man who appeared nude at 4 months old in 1991 on the cover of Nirvana’s “Nevermind”album is suing the band and others, alleging the image is child pornography they have profited from. The...
Former Iowa Anchor Wants Age Bias Lawsuit to Change TV News
Aug 27 2021 // As a prominent reporter and anchor at one of Iowa’s biggest local television stations, Sonya Heitshusen was known for doggedly investigating injustices and holding the powerful accountable. A year after WHO-TV in Des...
Jury Denies Damages in Montana Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Aug 26 2021 // A federal jury has denied a damage award to the family of a Livingston, Mont., man who was shot and killed by police in January 2016. The estate of Sean Patrick O’Brien filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City...
Lawsuit: Teens Sexually Assaulted in Illinois School Team Hazing
Aug 25 2021 // The parents of two teenage boys filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging their sons were sexually assaulted in a hazing tradition by older players on their suburban Chicago, Ill., high school football team, and that three...
Man Sues Nebraska Sheriff After Pepper Ball Blinded Him
Aug 24 2021 // An Iowa man is suing an eastern Nebraska county, its sheriff and several deputies, saying their lack of training led one of the deputies to shoot him in the eye with a pepper ball during a protest last year. Adam Keup, 24,...
Giant Container Ship, Which Blocked the Suez in March, Again Crosses the Canal
Aug 23 2021 // ISMAILIA, Egypt – The giant container ship Ever Given, which blocked the Suez canal for six days in March, crossed the waterway on Friday for the first time since it left Egypt after the incident. The ship, en route from...
Lawsuit Filed in Wyoming Says Mixup Kept Family at Gunpoint
Aug 20 2021 // Yellowstone National Park rangers and Wyoming sheriff’s deputies seeking a murder suspect held a vacationing family at gunpoint for an hour without adequate cause, a lawsuit claims. Brett and Genalyn Hemry, of...
Alaska School District Agrees to Settle Abuse Lawsuit for $3.8M
Aug 19 2021 // An Alaska school district agreed to pay $3.8 million to two children abused by a former principal who said school leaders had been “well aware of my problems with young girls” for years, news outlets...
Judge Tosses Most Claims in Oregon Armed Occupation Death Suit
Aug 19 2021 // A federal judge has tossed most of the civil claims brought in a wrongful death lawsuit by the family of an Arizona rancher who served as spokesperson for the armed takeover of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife...
New Jersey Domestic Violence Victim Suing Prosecutor Over Being Named
Aug 19 2021 // A New Jersey woman who killed her abusive ex-fiance can proceed with a lawsuit that claims her rights as a domestic violence victim were violated when a county prosecutor publicly identified her, an appeals court ruled...
Workers at Massachusetts Veterans’ Home at Center of COVID-19 Outbreak Sue
Aug 19 2021 // Employees of the Massachusetts veterans’ home at the center of a devastating COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020 have sued several members of the facility’s former leadership team, alleging they were forced...
UK Court Approves $14 Billion-Plus Class Action Against Mastercard
Aug 19 2021 // A London court on Wednesday approved a 10 billion pound-plus ($14 billion-plus) class action against global payments processor Mastercard that claimants said could entitle 46 million British adults to roughly 300 pounds...
Family of Man Killed During Kenosha, Wisconsin, Protests Sues Police
Aug 19 2021 // The family of one of the two men fatally shot during a demonstration against police violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has filed a federal civil lawsuit against local law enforcement, accusing officers of facilitating Kyle...
EEOC Sues Florida Applebee’s Franchise for Race and Sexual Orientation Discrimination
Aug 18 2021 // Neighborhood Restaurant Partners Florida, LLC, doing business as Applebee’s, violated federal law by subjecting an employee to race and sexual orientation discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Judge Allows Discrimination Lawsuit to Proceed Against University of Idaho
Aug 18 2021 // A federal judge says a discrimination lawsuit filed against the University of Idaho by a UI College of Law professor can move forward. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill rejected a request from the University of Idaho to...
California Judge Tosses School Board Member’s $87M Suit
Aug 18 2021 // A federal judge has thrown out an $87 million lawsuit that a San Francisco school board member filed against the district and her colleagues after they voted to strip her of senior board positions because of tweets that...
New York Let Childhood Sex Abuse Victims Sue; 9,000 Went to Court
Aug 18 2021 // For two years, New York temporarily set aside its usual time limit on civil lawsuits in order to allow victims of childhood sexual abuse to sue churches, hospitals, schools, camps, scout groups and other institutions and...
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Settle Police Dog Attack Suit for $50K
Aug 17 2021 // The Cedar Rapids, Iowa, City Council approved a $50,000 payment to settle a lawsuit brought by a man who said he was unjustly attacked by a city police dog last year. The lawsuit was filed by Howard Cones, who said he was...
