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The ACLU of Iowa has filed a lawsuit against Adams County Sheriff’s Office, alleging they violated a man’s free speech rights by arresting him for profanity-laden Facebook post. The sheriff’s office charged Jon Goldsmith with third-degree harassment for what they...Read More →

The ACLU of Ohio, Planned Parenthood and other groups have filed a lawsuit against the state of Ohio, challenging its new law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. Elizabeth Watson, a staff attorney at ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom...Read More →

The parents of Nicholas Immesberger, who died in a crash in December, have filed a lawsuit against Tiger Woods, claiming the golfer is responsible for their son’s death. Immesberger worked as a bartender at Woods’ restaurant, The Woods Jupiter, in...Read More →

Johnnie Barto, a former pediatrician at Laurel Pediatric Associates and Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center, is facing his first lawsuit since his sentencing in March. Barto was convicted of 69 counts of aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault, and endangering the welfare...Read More →

One of the most infamous celebrity car accidents in recent history was a fatal car wreck involving Jackass star Ryan Dunn and Zachary Hartwell, a production assistant on Jackass Number Two. The car crash occurred on June 20, 2011, at...Read More →

Forty-four states have filed a lawsuit against more than 20 drug manufacturers, accusing them of scheming to inflate the prices of more than 100 generic drugs. According to the lawsuit, Sandoz, Pfizer, Mylan, Teva and 16 other drug manufacturers conspired...Read More →

Gibbs Law Group, a California law firm, has filed a class action lawsuit against TurboTax, accusing the tax prep software company of making its free program difficult to find for low-income individuals. Jessica Carlson of Cincinnati believes she is one...Read More →

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against O’Reilly Auto Parts in Orlando after three women claimed male employees at the establishment sexually harassed them on a daily basis. According to the lawsuit, the male employees groped...Read More →

One of most headline-making celebrity car accidents in recent history was a fatal car wreck involving Paul Walker, the star of the Fast and Furious film franchise, and his friend and financial adviser Roger Rodas, who died on Nov. 30,...Read More →

Lesa Swanson has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Dr. Anil Kumar Kesani, alleging he misplaced four screws in her spine during surgery at Baylor Medical Center in Trophy Club. According to the lawsuit, Swanson went in for spinal surgery...Read More →

Few celebrities have crashed into fame the way Lindsay Lohan literally and figuratively did. Amid her wild celeb ride, Lilo had a car accident involving her black Mercedes-Benz SL65. While driving in West Hollywood, the starlet had a car wreck...Read More →

The mother of one of the first-grade boys who were allegedly sexually abused at Estes Hills Elementary School has filed a lawsuit against Chapel Hill Public Schools. According to the lawsuit, three first-grade boys were sexually abused in the cafeteria,...Read More →

The parents of 2-year-old Franklin Parker, who drowned in a Baker County retention pond in April, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the owner of the property, alleging he should have built a fence around the pond. Franklin’s body...Read More →

Robert Johnson has filed a lawsuit against three Mesa police officers, accusing them of using excessive force and inflicting physical and mental pain on him. The lawsuit stems back to an incident on May 23, 2018. Johnson was accompanying a...Read More →

About half a dozen inmates have filed a federal lawsuit against the Florida prison system to end solitary confinement in the state. The attorneys at the Southern Poverty Law Center said that Florida’s percentage of prisoners in solitary confinement is...Read More →

One of the saddest celebrity car accident deaths was most certainly Anton Yelchin’s. On June 19, 2016, the 27-year-old Star Trek actor’s 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV rolled down his driveway and trapped him against a security gate, thereby killing...Read More →

Jared and Erin NesSmith of Sarasota have filed a lawsuit against e-cigarette giant JUUL after their 15-year-old daughter became addicted to their e-cigarettes. The lawsuit says that the 15-year-old girl, Ashylnn, began using the company’s vaping products when she was...Read More →

Legal Services NYC has filed a lawsuit against the NYC Department of Education on behalf of four girls, alleging school officials did nothing to protect them against sexual assault. According to the lawsuit, the girls, who are students of color...Read More →

Jasmine Shepard, who graduated from high school in 2016 and had to share the honor of valedictorian with another student, filed a lawsuit against the Cleveland school district in 2017. She accused them of discriminating against her for forcing her...Read More →

Venus Williams found herself in a terrible situation when she was involved in a headline-making celebrity car accident on June 9, 2017. The tennis star got into in a collision with Jerome Barson and his wife in Palm Beach Gardens,...Read More →

Famous singer Brandy found herself on the wrong side of headlines when she was involved in a celebrity car accident on Dec. 30, 2006. While driving her  Land Rover, the “Boy Is Mine” singer rear-ended a 38-year-old Moroccan immigrant and...Read More →

Jeremy Needum, who is dying of a rare cancer, has file a lawsuit against the Texas prison system, alleging officials took away his morphine after he filed a sexual harassment complaint. Needum had been in prison for over 10 years...Read More →

Sierra Castle, a transgender woman, has filed a lawsuit against Cobb County after she was allegedly mistreated while confined at Cobb County Jail. It all began on March 28, 2018 when Castle called the police because her car was damaged...Read More →

Sutton Dryfhout has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Dr. Benjamin Ticho, a Chicago ophthalmologist who allegedly performed a surgery on the wrong eye. Dryfhout was 19 when she had an operation in August 2017 to correct a lazy eye...Read More →

The parents of four 12-year-old girls who say they were strip searched at East Middle School have filed a federal lawsuit against Binghamton City School District. The incident occurred on Jan. 15 when East Middle School Principal Tim Simonds allegedly...Read More →

David Thorkelson has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Lee County Sheriff’s Office after a deputy shot and killed his wife, Debi Thorkelson. The incident occurred on August 31, 2017 in Lazy Way in Fort Myers Beach. Deputies responded...Read More →

Two families have filed a class-action lawsuit against Fisher-Price just two week after the company recalled the Rock ‘N Play sleepers. The toy company recalled millions of the Rock ‘N Play sleepers in the beginning of this month after it...Read More →

Thirty-one men and women who were unlawfully videotaped as they were receiving massages at the Orchids of Asia Spa have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Jupiter Police Department for violating their rights to privacy. The Jupiter Police Department began...Read More →

A longtime employee of the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (CCCFPD) has filed a lawsuit against the agency, claiming its leaders repeatedly ignored her complaints that a supervisor sexually harassed her for years. According to the lawsuit, the employee’s...Read More →

Invokana Injuries Lawyer Washington DC The medication Canagliflozin, sold under the brand name Invokana among others, is used to treat type 2 diabetes. The medication is intended to be used along with exercise and a healthy diet, but not recommended...Read More →

Judge Lawrence Knipel has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a group of parents who wanted to lift New York’s new measles vaccination order. Earlier this week, five parents who wish to remain anonymous, filed the lawsuit against the city health...Read More →

Shatia Sims has filed a lawsuit against Truly Nolen, claiming she was fired after complaining about the sexual harassment she endured. Sims started working at Truly Nolen in May 2017 as a sales associate. She had experience as a pest...Read More →

A woman who says she was sexually abused by multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein when she was underage has filed a lawsuit against high-profile attorney Alan Dershowitz, alleging he made false statements against her. Virginia Giuffre alleges in the lawsuit that Dershowitz,...Read More →

The parents of Fabrizio Stabile, who died last year after contracting brain-eating amoeba while surfing at BSR Cable Park, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the waterpark. According to the lawsuit, “BSR’s blue-green dyed waves masked a pathogen soup...Read More →

Melvin David Rees was a serial killer and rapist in the greater Washington DC Metropolitan area, who committed five murders in Virginia and Maryland between 1957 and 1959. His nickname is “the Sex Beast.” During the early ’50s, Rees attended...Read More →

In February 1950, British authorities arrested a German-born scientist who was living in England  named Klaus Fuchs on suspicion of providing the Soviet Union with classified information regarding the American atomic bomb program in Los Alamos, New Mexico. While under...Read More →

Eight families have filed a lawsuit against the Washington Hebrew Congregation, which operates the Edlavitch Tyser Early Childhood Center, claiming they did nothing to stop a teacher from sexually abusing their children for two years. According to the lawsuit, the...Read More →

Jeremy Kappell, a former meteorologist who was fired after he appeared to say a racial slur on air, has filed a lawsuit against WHEC-TV. The lawsuit stems from an evening broadcast of News10NBC on Jan. 4, 2019. Kappell showed a...Read More →

The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed a lawsuit against Detroit’s 36th District Court, alleging its cash bails system is unconstitutional. According to the lawsuit, the magistrates who preside over arraignments discriminate against poor people “by locking them up...Read More →

Reneizha Morris has filed a lawsuit against UnityPoint Methodist, claiming the hospital pushed her to have an abortion. Morris was admitted to the hospital in November 2017 for a psychiatric evaluation after having a problem with her medication. During routine...Read More →

Waiting outside Five Points area of Columbia, South Carolina, Samantha Josephson hopped into a car she mistakenly thought was an Uber early in the morning on Friday, March 21, 2019 and it was the last ride of her life. The...Read More →

David Robert Lee, a Clemson University employee who was charged with a DUI, is being sued for wrongful death. Police reports said that Lee hit a 79-year-old woman crossing Main Street on March 8. Virginia Byrne was hospitalized and died...Read More →

The city of Chicago has filed a lawsuit against Jussie Smollett, accusing him of purposely deceiving police by falsely describing his alleged assailants as white men. “(Smollett) made this statement despite knowing that the Osundairo Brothers are not white-skinned,” the...Read More →

Four former students have filed a lawsuit against Glen Mills Schools, the oldest reform school in the United States, alleging they endured cruel and unusual punishment while they were there. According to the lawsuit, the youth housed at Glen Mills...Read More →

Eleven high school students in the McKeesport Area School District have filed a civil lawsuit against the district, accusing them of repeatedly denying their efforts to form a club called the Black Student Union. The McKeesport Area School District and...Read More →

The parent of a 9-year-old boy who was allegedly injured while being dragged down a school hallway by a teacher and teaching assistant, has filed a lawsuit against the Anderson School District. The incident that prompted the lawsuit occurred on...Read More →

John Wayne Gacy was a serial killer and rapist, who sexually assaulted, tortured and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Cook County, Illinois. Gacy’s first legal troubles began in March 1968, when...Read More →

Three women who were sexually assaulted by fake Uber drivers have filed a lawsuit against the ride sharing service, accusing them of failing to warn riders about the issue. According to the lawsuit, Uber makes it easy for sexual predators...Read More →

Sandra Manning, Tallahassee’s special project manager, has filed a lawsuit against the city, claiming she was passed over for a job because of her age and race. Manning said that a former city manager Anita Favors was preparing to retire...Read More →

Three contractors who worked at the KMCO plant in Crosby have filed a lawsuit against the chemical storage facility after a chemical fire occurred. They claimed officials knew about the valve leak that caused the explosion and didn’t do anything...Read More →

A&E Tire Inc. has agreed to settle a lawsuit for $60,000 and to write a letter of apology after a transgender man sued them for allegedly discriminating against him during the hiring process. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed...Read More →

Bill Cosby has settled a federal lawsuit brought by seven women who claimed he defamed their character after they went public with their sexual assault allegations. These women filed the lawsuit in 2014, accusing Cosby of falsely branding them as...Read More →

Motel 6 has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by Washington state alleging the hotel chain improperly provided immigration officials with the names of guests. According to Attorney General Bob Ferguson, the information the hotel chain gave out resulted in...Read More →

Charles Giampaolo, who survived the Las Vegas mass shooting and witnessed his father-in-law get shot in front of him, has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, for pushing him out of the company. Giampaolo went back to work at...Read More →

The family of Samya Stumo, who was killed in an Ethiopian Airlines crash last month, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Boeing, Ethiopian Airlines and a Delaware company accused of manufacturing a defective part of the plane. On March...Read More →

Two doctoral students have filed a lawsuit against a Michigan State professor for allegedly making them work long hours at his engineering company for little to no pay. According to the lawsuit, Parviz Soroushian took advantage of doctoral students Talal...Read More →

Multiple women have filed a lawsuit against Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa, Calif., alleging they were filmed without their knowledge during childbirth and surgery. According to the lawsuit, hospital employees put up cameras in operating rooms in 2012 after...Read More →

Two female co-workers have accused Public School 97 special education teacher, James Gonzalez, of sexual harassment in a new lawsuit. “I woke up scared to go to work every day,” she said. “I knew he was going to ask me...Read More →

Union County Superior Court Judge James Wilson threw out a lawsuit brought by a firefighter who suffered injuries after he sat on a firehouse toilet. On Nov. 27, 2015, Raymond Johns sat down on a toilet while he was on...Read More →

Foreign exchange student Amanda Knox spent almost four years in an Italian prison for the 2007 murder of her flatmate, British student Meredith Kercher, who was killed at the age of 21 in Perugia, Italy, on Nov. 1, 2007. Kercher...Read More →

Wisconsin man Steven Avery was tried and convicted of sexual assault and attempted murder of Penny Beerntsen. After serving 18 years in prison, Avery was exonerated after the Wisconsin Innocence Project helped clear his name by matching the DNA at...Read More →

Whenever a person dies or is killed as a result of a negligent act or misconduct by another individual, the victim’s surviving members of the family are entitled to sue for what is called “wrong death” damages. Typically filed alongside...Read More →

Litigation based on asbestos injuries as well as property damages caused by asbestos has been considered the longest-running mass tort in the history of the United States. While it is not completely banned in the United States, there are still...Read More →

A report conducted by the Institute of Education Services concluded that “the average age of public school buildings in the United States is 44 years.” However, in the state of New Jersey, the average age of its public schools is...Read More →

Purdue Pharma, the maker of Oxycontin, has agreed to settle a lawsuit with Oklahoma over the drugmaker’s part in opioid deaths in the state. In the lawsuit, Oklahoma claimed that Purdue, Johnson & Johnson and Teva are at least partly...Read More →

On March 12, 2019, the Justice Department charged 50 people, including Fuller House’s Lori Loughlin and former Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman, in six states in relation to a national and elaborate scheme to influence college admissions decisions around the...Read More →

Master Sergeant Mark Allen was on a mission in Afghanistan back in July 2009 when he was shot in the head. Though nonfatal, the wound left him confined to a wheelchair permanently and he loss of the ability to speak....Read More →

In an asbestos personal injury lawsuit a 70 year old Anthony Latz, a retired surveyor from Stonyfell, South Australian, was awarded a record-breaking compensation amount of $1.06 million. The Adelaide District Court made the first ever ruling for such a...Read More →

Owning a pool has its own shares of responsibilities such as preventing someone from drowning. The National Safety Council reports that almost 80 percent of all reported drowning incidences occur in residential pools and spas. As a result, anyone who...Read More →

The National Hockey League has reached a $18.9 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by over 300 former players who claimed the league failed to protect them against head injuries. In addition to the monetary damages, the settlement includes neurological...Read More →

Maryland injury lawyers Although playing sports can benefit you mentally and physically, you should be aware that you are taking a great risk by playing and might wind up in need of Maryland injury lawyers. Thankfully, there are steps to...Read More →

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has filed a lawsuit against the Wheeling-Charleston Catholic Diocese, claiming they knowingly employed priests who sexually abused children. According to the lawsuit, the Diocese and its bishops covered up “arguably criminal behavior of child...Read More →

Nearly five years after the death of her boyfriend, 18-year-old marine salvage captain Conrad Roy III, Michelle Carter has been sent to jail. In 2017, Carter was sentenced to 15 months in jail for her role in the death of...Read More →

Former child actor Robert Blake, who went on to star in In Cold Blood and Baretta, dined with his second wife Bonnie Lee Bakely at Vitello’s Restaurant in Studio City, Calif., on May 4, 2001. While sitting outside of the...Read More →

Members of the U.S. National Women’s Soccer Team have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, accusing the organization of discriminating against them based on their gender. According to the lawsuit, the USSF has discriminated against the players’ gender...Read More →

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former attorney, has filed a lawsuit against the Trump Organization, alleging the company didn’t pay his legal fees like they promised. According to the lawsuit, the Trump Organization stopped paying Cohen’s legal fees after he...Read More →

Marc Peeples of Detroit has filed a lawsuit against three women, alleging they made false accusations about him to the police to keep him away from an urban garden on the city’s east side. Peeples said he was working in...Read More →

The Animal Legal Defense Fund, a California animal welfare group, has filed a lawsuit against Rescue Pets Iowa, alleging it’s a puppy mill posing as a rescue group. According to the lawsuit, Rescue Pets Iowa is conducting a puppy laundering...Read More →

The parents of a girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted by her diving coach has filed a lawsuit against Portage High School for negligence. According to the lawsuit, the school corporation didn’t do enough to protect the girl from Latwone...Read More →

Celia Roessler has filed a lawsuit against the Valley Vista treatment center in Vermont after a patient escaped from the facility and allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted her. Court records state that Everett Simpson left the Valley Vista treatment center...Read More →

California has filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration in an attempt to stop new regulations that would take away millions of dollars in federal funding from Planned Parenthood and other organizations that provide abortions. California attorney general Xavier Becerra...Read More →

Family of Football Player Who Collapsed During Practice Sue Federal Way School District The parents of Allen Harris, who died last year after an outdoor football practice at Federal Way High School, have filed a lawsuit against the school district....Read More →

Seven Latino workers who were detained when ICE raided a Tennessee meatpacking plant last year have filed a lawsuit, claiming agents used racial slurs and excessive force. According to the lawsuit, authorities illegally targeted Latino workers when they rushed into...Read More →

Activist, Rebekah Charleston, has filed a lawsuit in attempt to end ordinances that allow legalized prostitution in Nevada. Charleston claims that she was trafficked by two pimps from 1999 through 2009. She says she worked at two legal brothels, the...Read More →

Alva Johnson, a former Trump campaign staffer, has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, claiming that he kissed her without her consent during the 2016 race. According to the lawsuit, Johnson noticed that Trump was making eye contact with...Read More →

Nicholas Stover of Lexington has filed a lawsuit against Amazon after he was allegedly fired for taking too many bathroom breaks. Stover claims that the company knew about his Crohn’s disease when he was hired at a Winchester call center...Read More →

The family members of Tavis Crane, who was shot and killed during a traffic stop in 2017, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Arlington. On Feb. 1, 2017, police officer Elise Bowden pulled over Crane, who...Read More →

Bianca Coons and her partner Cristobal Ruiz have filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood for providing a medication to induce an abortion that ultimately failed. The couple traveled all the way to a Planned Parenthood in Albuquerque in February 2016...Read More →

The father of Hoda Muthana, who traveled from Alabama to marry an Islamic State fighter, has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration in hopes of getting her and his 18-month-old grandson back into the United States. Muthana joined...Read More →

Alexis and Orland Birbragher, the parents of a boy who was allegedly sexually assaulted at camp in 2017, have filed a lawsuit against Robin Hood Camp. According to the lawsuit, their son, who is now 14, was sexually assaulted by...Read More →

Federal Criminal Defense Attorneys Washington DC On Dec. 1, 2017, former national security adviser Michael Flynn was charged with making false statements to federal investigators about his December 2016 conversations in with Russia’s then-ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. At...Read More →

Criminal Law Lawyers Washington DC Real Housewives of New Jersey stars Teresa and Joe Giudice were charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, making false statements on loan applications, and bankruptcy fraud in a 39-count federal...Read More →

Nick Sandmann, who was in the middle of a controversial confrontation with a Native American demonstrator at the Lincoln Memorial last month, has filed a defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post. Sandmann made national news after he appeared in a...Read More →

At least two lawsuits have been filed to stop President Donald Trump’s national emergency order to secure funding for a wall along the southern border with Mexico. The national emergency order will free up $8 billion to approve funding for...Read More →

The family members of Justin Perkins, who died last year while in police custody, have filed a lawsuit against the Anaheim police officers they allege choked and beat him and didn’t get him medical care. On Oct. 27, police officers...Read More →

False Allegation Lawyer Washington DC Love & Hip-Hop Hollywood star Teairra Mari found that she had to pony up more than 50 cents when a judge ordered her to pay 50 Cent more than $30,000 in attorney fees after her...Read More →

Cheri Marchionda has settled a lawsuit with an Embassy Suites hotel in Des Moines after she was raped in her room almost five years ago. According to the lawsuit, Marchionda was staying at the hotel on April 11, 2014 for...Read More →

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of two women who were detained by Border Patrol agents in a convenience store last May for speaking Spanish. According to a press release from ACLU, Ana Suda...Read More →

Jasmine Eiland filed a lawsuit against Opera Atlanta Monday, claiming she was sexually assaulted on their dance floor. Eiland went to the nightclub on Jan. 19 for a concert by hip-hop artist August Alsina. She video recorded herself dancing at...Read More →

Education lawyers have filed a lawsuit against Denver Public Schools after thousands of teachers walked out Monday. They claim that the strike will negatively impact students with special needs. Denver public school teachers decided to go on strike after the...Read More →