Chicago residents in the community of South Shore are banding together to stop city officials from allocating public resources to the influx of migrants that have been bussed to the city over the past year. According to the latest reports from city officials, since August 31, 2022, Chicago has received... Read More »
Lawrence Doreson, the father of a 14-year-old Farmingdale High School student who was injured in a fatal bus crash in upstate New York in late September, has filed a lawsuit against the bus company and the driver. Doreson accuses the bus company, Regency Transportation Ltd., and the driver, Lisa Schaffer,... Read More »
The family of a woman who died in a Pennsylvania nursing home has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the nurse who cared for her and the center that hired the nurse. Marianne Bower was 67 years old when she died on September 28, 2021, at the Belair Healthcare and... Read More »
The family of 27-year-old Eddie Irizarry has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against two Philadelphia police officers including former Officer Mark Dial after Dial shot and killed Irizarry during a traffic stop last month. News of the lawsuit came just one day after a judge dismissed murder charges against Dial. ... Read More »
The Baton Rouge Police Department is facing a flurry of lawsuits accusing the department and select police officers of misconduct and abuse. The allegations come after reports of a police warehouse dubbed the “Brave Cave'' was used as a faux police precinct where individuals who were apprehended by police officers... Read More »
A data breach that targeted an Ohio-based insurance company has prompted multiple lawsuits including a class action lawsuit filed by victims who lost sensitive personal information following the data breach. One class action suit is seeking more than $9.9 million in damages. CareSource, the administrator of one of the nation’s... Read More »
Leading global aerospace company Boeing is at the center of several lawsuits that claim the company knew about the presence of toxic chemicals in its production plants but did little to protect workers. At least two Boeing employees say these toxins resulted in their children being born with birth defects. ... Read More »
Drivers of popular muscle cars, trucks, and SUVs equipped with a Hemi V8 engine are paying close attention to an ongoing lawsuit in which the plaintiffs are seeking class action certification. Known as the ‘Hemi tick,’ impacted vehicles make a loud ticking noise once the engine is turned over. As... Read More »
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and a former human resource officer, Amrit Mula, have reached a settlement in a whistleblower lawsuit filed last year. The lawsuit sparked several probes from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Lilly and Mula had been actively working on finalizing... Read More »
A Nebraska woman who underwent a double mastectomy when she was just 16 years old is suing the medical facility, doctors, and nurses who helped perform the operation. Luka Hein, Now 21, was born female but underwent a double mastectomy during her transition into a transgender male. Luka Hein, Now... Read More »
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against electric car maker Tesla. The lawsuit accuses Tesla of violating workplace discrimination laws after Black staffers in Fremont, California, production facilities were subjected to stereotyping and a... Read More »
A Georgia man has filed a lawsuit claiming facial recognition technology led to his wrongful arrest after he was accused of theft in a state he’s never visited. 29-year-old Randal Quran Reid, who prefers going by Quran, was pulled over on the side of a busy Georgia interstate as he... Read More »
The family of 19-year-old Miya Marcano is suing the Orange County, Florida, Sheriff's Office and two of its members, claiming civil rights violations in the way they handled the investigation into Marcano’s death. The family filed their lawsuit in the Orange County Ninth Judicial Circuit Court two years after Marcano’s... Read More »
The family of a woman who died in a Belk restroom while at work has filed a lawsuit against the department store a year after the woman's death. On September 22, 2022, 63-year-old Bessie Durham was found dead inside the Columbia, S.C., department store’s public restroom. An investigation revealed that... Read More »
On August 31, 17-year-old Black student Darryl George was reprimanded with an in-school suspension for wearing his natural hair in twisted braids. Today, his family is suing the state over what they say was a violation of their son’s civil rights. The federal civil rights lawsuit was filed over the... Read More »
