When Spencer Elden was just four months old, the “grunge rock band” Nirvana used a nude picture of him, which prominently showed his genitals, on the cover of their 1991 album Nevermind. The album went platinum, sold 30 million copies, and generated a host of album cover copies on merchandise... Read More »
A spiritual adviser to death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith has filed a lawsuit against the state of Alabama over plans to use nitrogen gas to execute the condemned prisoner. The lawsuit was filed by Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Hood nearly a month before Smith is set to be executed On... Read More »
Humana, an industry leader providing healthcare plans for over 5.1 million eligible American seniors, is facing a new class action lawsuit over its claims process. The lawsuit was filed by Medicare Advantage beneficiaries earlier this month in the U.S. District Court in Western Kentucky. The class action lawsuit names two... Read More »
The judge in the “second degree implied malice murder” trial of an inebriated man, who hit and killed a six-year-old girl, did not have to instruct the jury to consider a lesser related offense such as “gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.” The driver was convicted and sentenced to 15 years... Read More »
Defendant/Appellant Christopher Esqueda was a felon who tried to sell methamphetamines (meth) and a loaded .22 caliber revolver from his Anaheim hotel room in January 2020. Unfortunately for him, the potential buyers were two undercover law enforcement agents, one from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and... Read More »
A popular Chicago area car wash is at the center of a wrongful death lawsuit after a Hinsdale teenager was killed in a horrific car accident. On July 17, 14-year-old Sean Richards was killed at the Fuller’s Car Wash after a Jeep being driven by a car wash employee struck... Read More »
A new lawsuit accuses a former Harvard Medical School professor of secretly using his own sperm to artificially inseminate a patient he saw in 1980. That patient, 73-year-old Sarah Depoian, is now suing the retired professor for what her legal team has described as “medical rape.” The now-retired professor, Dr.... Read More »
A recent Ninth Circuit opinion raises the question of whether California’s consumer protection laws should perhaps be renamed California’s “consumer unprotection laws.” In a case where a manufacturer replaced potentially harmful ingredients in its hair dye with “chemicals that are just as unsafe or worse” than those they replaced, the... Read More »
The family of a 43-year-old inmate who died while behind bars has filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Corrections and others for the state of his body when it was returned to the family. The family is also suing for the Department of Corrections’ negligent actions they say... Read More »
After Benjamin Kohn, a disabled attorney, failed the bar exam three times, he sued the State Bar of California for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act when it denied his desired test-taking accommodations. He claimed that the State Bar is not an “arm of the state” and therefore does not... Read More »
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a warning about small, high-powered magnets that are found in a number of popular kid toys. The small yet dangerous magnets have been linked to at least seven deaths after the magnetic beads were ingested. The CPSC’s warning comes after five... Read More »
The investigation into what caused the partial collapse of the seven-story Morris Heights apartment building in the Bronx Monday afternoon is still ongoing. Miraculously, the Fire Department Commissioner Laura Kavanagh announced during a news briefing that there were no deaths that resulted from the collapse. Only two individuals were reported... Read More »
California has two levels of bench officers. Judges, who are on one level, are either elected or appointed by the governor, while commissioners, on another level, are hired by other judges and the court to assist with caseloads by performing judicial duties. There is one other key difference. Parties whose... Read More »
Minnesota-based Pritzker Hageman Law Firm has filed the first lawsuit related to a salmonella outbreak hitting North America. The source of the outbreak was contaminated cantaloupe that was traced back to Malichita and Rudy brand cantaloupes imported from Mexico. Several other victims of the outbreak are also seeking the representation... Read More »
It will be up to a jury to decide whether a police officer used excessive force when he shot a suspect who he thought posed an immediate threat by reaching for his gun. The officer claimed qualified immunity, but the District Court disagreed when it denied the officer’s motion for... Read More »
