After California’s Department of Water Resources (DWR) released water from Lake Oroville into the Oroville Dam during 2017 flood conditions, a local district attorney sued the agency for releasing harmful materials into the state’s waters. DWR said they did it in order to protect the dam. The statute that protects... Read More »
Tim Ballard, a former homeland security officer and the filmmaker behind the wildly popular movie Sound of Freedom, is now facing his own allegation of sexual misconduct made by women who worked alongside him during his sex trafficking rescue operations. At least two lawsuits have been filed against Ballard. The... Read More »
The People v. Simmons could also be named The Legislature v. The Judiciary. The conflict between the two branches of California’s government arose in a case that challenged the right of the state’s legislature to enact the Racial Justice Act (RJA) in 2020. The Act allows those convicted of crimes... Read More »
Social media platform TikTok is being accused of not taking enough measures to ensure the safety of child users, among other allegations made by the state of Utah in a newly filed lawsuit. Utah is the latest state to take legal action against the popular app, following similar action from... Read More »
When people sign up to drive for Uber and Lyft, they must agree to submit all their disputes with the companies to arbitration. But when the government is a party to a civil enforcement action against the ride-share companies, a California appellate court has ruled that similar arbitration agreements are... Read More »
In the past few years, several studies about the positive mental health effects of “magic mushrooms” have prompted Oregon, Colorado and several U.S. cities to decriminalize psilocybin, the drug certain fungi produce naturally. California, which passed a bill legalizing the mushrooms and several other natural psychedelics in September, will not... Read More »
Delaware’s ACLU has filed a class action lawsuit against the Delaware Department of Corrections and several healthcare providers on behalf of incarcerated Delawareans. The lawsuit accuses the correction facilities and the private healthcare agencies contracted to work with them of violating the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of inmates because... Read More »
The mother of a Massachusetts man has filed a medical negligence lawsuit against a hospital and three of its providers after her son was discharged from the facility and found dead in a nearby wooded area, covered in snow. According to the lawsuit, 47-year-old Daniel Donovan checked himself into Beverly... Read More »
The small town of Mitchell, South Dakota, has been the center of national attention after sexual assault allegations were made against members of the high school baseball team. The six boys involved range in ages 17 to 19 and are accused of raping two other players during a June tournament.... Read More »
The hit reality TV show ‘Love Is Blind’ is facing a lawsuit filed by a former contestant who was on the show during the filming of season five. The season, which was filmed last year, began airing last month on the streaming platform, Netflix. The plaintiff, Tran Dang. filed her... Read More »
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 »
Plaintiff Robert Bezzina was hired by United Airlines in 1992 to be a ramp serviceman, a position in which he handled freight, mail, and baggage. Like millions of others, an order from then-Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti made it mandatory to wear a face mask at work in order to... 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 »
What is a reasonable fear of harm from domestic violence? A California appellate court has sided with an ex-wife who wanted to extend a domestic violence restraining order (DVRO) against her former husband. While the ex-husband argued that her fears were “objectively unreasonable,” the court ruled that the reasonable person... Read More »
