Four contractors are now facing criminal charges after a collapse at a Bronx construction site killed a worker. Three of the individuals are facing homicide charges, an extremely rare result following a fatal workplace accident. Construction is a dangerous industry. Every year, nearly one in five workplace deaths happen in... Read More »
Two migrant workers have filed a federal lawsuit against a West Michigan blueberry farm accusing them of migrant trafficking, unsafe working conditions, and other violations. The lawsuit was filed on Friday, June 9 by Feliciano Velaso Rojas and Luis Guzman Rojas in the U.S. District Court for the Western District... Read More »
The ongoing battle between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Disney continues to wreak havoc on people across the political divide regarding hot-button issues such as LGBTQ+ rights, abortion, library book bans, and the policing of schools regarding sex education or gender identity. In a Fox News appearance, DeSantis, who married... Read More »
Term limits restrict the number of times an elected official may be re-elected. They date back to ancient Greece and Rome and were enacted throughout history to prevent power monopolies and abuses. When one California county passed a measure that limited its supervisors to a single, four-year term, opponents sued,... Read More »
The first lawsuits have begun following the Davenport, Iowa, apartment collapse on May 28. Hours after the collapse, nine residents were rescued, and search efforts were subsequently called off as plans for demolition moved forward. Demolition plans were then scrapped after 52-year-old resident Lisa Brooks appeared in a sixth-story window... Read More »
Medical clinic company Compass Medical is facing a class action lawsuit after the company suddenly closed the doors of its urgent and primary care locations across southeastern Massachusetts. A former Compass Medical patient claims in the lawsuit that the company failed to give patients advance notice and disrupted their access... Read More »
A District of Columbia woman who went to court to sue her neighbor and DC for the formidable stench of marijuana invading her home won her case last week. DC Superior Court Judge Ebony Scott ruled in favor of plaintiff Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd, who claimed in a lawsuit that the overwhelming... Read More »
Sadly, it is unusual these days for a week to pass by without news of yet another mass shooting in America. While the news media cover every detail about the shooters, they also often seek to provide information about the lives and deaths of the victims. The families of those... Read More »
A Georgia-based radio host, Mark Walters, sued OpenAI in the first defamation lawsuit of its kind. OpenAI owns and operates the now-viral platform ChatGPT, a program where AI answers questions, writes articles, and also offers written content that is sometimes fabricated and not factual. Walters filed the lawsuit on June... Read More »
Actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. pled guilty in 2022 to one charge of forcible touching in 2018. However, after pleading guilty, he was allowed to withdraw his plea, and then plead guilty to a lesser harassment charge instead, after proving he participated in behavior and alcohol modification after his 2019 arrest. ... Read More »
The battle over the “gig economy” continues to rage as the State of California seeks rehearing or review of a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that found that Assembly Bill 5 may have violated the rights of Uber, Postmates, and their drivers. California Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5) was... Read More »
Federal prosecutors charged a popular sexual wellness company with forced labor conspiracy on Tuesday. The founder and former CEO of One Taste, claiming to educate patrons in "orgasmic meditation,” Nicole Daedone, 56, was charged along with the former head of sales, Rachel Cherwitz, 43. Prosecutors in Brooklyn Federal Court allege... Read More »
America is facing what Publishers Weekly calls “an unprecedented surge in book bans and censorship efforts being pushed by right-wing groups in communities across the nation.” This week, the White House moved to reverse the trend by appointing a new coordinator in the Department of Education to “spearhead a response... Read More »
Oklahoma is the first state to have approved what could be the nation's first and only completely publicly funded Catholic religious school. The dual entities Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa, Oklahoma, would run the school, which is an online charter school. In an opinion issued... Read More »
A hefty, throwback bill package in Florida that harkens in spirit to the1950s was signed by Governor Rick DeSantis this week, with the administration promising to “protect Florida’s children from permanent mutilating surgical procedures, gender identity politics in schools, and attending sexually explicit adult performances.” The so-called “sweeping” set of... Read More »
