The families of two people who were killed in the 2021 Astroworld Music Festival have settled with concert organizer and headliner, rapper Travis Scott. The November 5 concert resulted in a deadly crowd surge shortly after Scott took the stage. The crowd surge killed 10 concertgoers and injured hundreds more.... Read More »
Less than a week after an online application portal for student debt relief went live, a federal appeals court temporarily blocked the Biden administration from moving forward with its student loan forgiveness plan. The ruling came Friday evening just as over half of qualifying student loan borrowers filed applications on... Read More »
An Illinois medical device sterilization company has been ordered to pay $363 million to a cancer survivor who lived in the same community where the company’s plant was based. The lawsuit was brought forward by Susan Kamuda, and her complaint is just one of over 700 that accused the company,... Read More »
When a couple repeatedly fought and a domestic violence restraining order (DVRO) was issued against the man, the woman tried to force her abusive boyfriend to vacate the apartment. But the trial judge declined to issue a move-out order. Instead, because both names were on the lease, he left the... Read More »
Nelli Parisenkova, a teacher in California, has allegedly been fired from her job at Bright Horizons Children's Center in Studio City because she refused to read books that featured LGBT themes. She worked at Bright Horizons Childcare Center for four years with students who were five years and younger. The... Read More »
Five former daycare employees have been arrested and charged after viral videos show them using scary Halloween masks to frighten a classroom of young children. Four of the individuals are facing felony child abuse charges while the fifth is facing a misdemeanor count of simple assault against a minor and... Read More »
The interaction between workers’ compensation law and personal injury law is complex, and it can work to the detriment of employees. Injured workers are typically limited to workers’ compensation, which offers only limited remedies, even if their employer’s negligence caused their injuries. In the COVID era, that means employees can... Read More »
Gov. DeSantis of Florida has eased voter restrictions via emergency executive order in Charlotte, Lee, and Sarasota Counties, which were hit hardest during Hurricane Ian. DeSantis is being called a hypocrite by some for easing restrictions now when he was against easing them and wanted tougher restrictions for the 2020... Read More »
Alarming radioactive contamination levels at Missouri’s Jana Elementary School have caused the school to shut its doors and switch to virtual learning. The news was shared Tuesday evening during a packed Hazelwood School District board meeting. At that meeting, parents were told that children who attended Jana Elementary School in... Read More »
The father of a five-year-old girl who was killed in a July car crash that involved Wisconsin Senate minority leader Janet Bewley has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the senator, the driver who struck the vehicle his daughter was in, and three insurance companies. Brandon Fink, the father of... Read More »
Capping a six-year investigation, the Justice Department announced last week that Orange County California’s numerous law enforcement entities regularly denied criminal defendants their legal rights. The 63-page report said prosecutors and sheriffs in Orange County, California, regularly misused a jailhouse informant program to deny the constitutional rights of criminal defendants.... Read More »
The nation’s largest domestic carrier, American Airlines, has agreed to a $7.5 million settlement to end a lawsuit claiming the company improperly charged baggage fees to certain passengers. The class-action lawsuit was filed in February 2021 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The initial... Read More »
The family of a North Charleston, SC, cyclist who was killed by an Uber driver in November 2021 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver and the ride-sharing company. On the evening of November 14, 2021, Joseph David Chase Jr. was struck from behind by Uber driver Kenric... Read More »
The University of Iowa Hospital and Clinic (UIHC) has agreed to a $15 million settlement to end a 2019 class action lawsuit that alleged hospital and clinic employees were improperly paid and were not paid overtime. The lawsuit was filed against Iowa's Board of Regents, the governing body of the... Read More »
A Mississippi judge has blocked a state law that allocated $10 million of federal pandemic relief funding to infrastructure grants for qualifying private schools in the state. The ruling was handed down by Hinds County Chancery Judge Crystal Wise Martin. Her ruling comes after the nonprofit group Parents for Public... Read More »
