The lawsuits between celebrity Kanye West and Walmart are piling up. On Thursday in a Los Angeles Superior Court, West accused mega-retailer Walmart of knocking off his popular foam runner sliders. A month ago, Walmart sued West for his Yeezy brand logo, which the giant retailer claims violates copyright laws... Read More »
Today a long-brewing investigation by numerous government agencies resulted in a grand jury indictment against the Trump Organization, Trump Payroll Corporation, and CFO Alan Weisselberg, 73. In total, the indictment included fifteen counts regarding alleged illegal schemes dating as far back as fifteen years. The defendants are charged with illegal... Read More »
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reviewed SB 202, Georgia’s “Election Integrity Act of 2021”, and found that it is far from deserving of a name that requires honesty and strong moral principles. Instead, it filed a complaint against Georgia in federal court after finding the new state law to... Read More »
A bipartisan effort supported by legendary musicians is underway, led by Ted Deutch (D-FL) and Darrell Issa (R-CA). Deutch and Issa were joined by celebrities including Dionne Warwick, Sam Moore, Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys and others as Deutch and Issa introduced new legislation to Congress on Thursday. Issa... Read More »
The pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $230 million in a settlement deal with New York state regarding the company’s role in the nation’s opioid crisis. The settlement will wrap up a 2019 lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James which targets Johnson & Johnson... Read More »
The Supreme Court ruled the other day in a 5-4 decision that there were limitations to a class-action lawsuit filed after TransUnion, a credit reporting agency, flagged thousands of innocent individuals as potential terrorists, drug dealers, or high-level criminals. Roughly 8,000 individuals were impacted after they were mislabeled in the... Read More »
Gov. John Bel Edwards vetoed a bill that would not allow transgender females to play on girls’ sports teams in Louisiana, despite many other southern states passing this type of legislation. Edwards has called this type of legislation discriminatory. "As I have said repeatedly when asked about this bill, discrimination... Read More »
A bill recently passed unanimously in the Louisiana House (99-0) and Senate (36-0) would help curb the number of children who cannot read. However, the bill does not have any funding attached to it. Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed the bill into law. Two other bills regarding education (Senate... Read More »
The heart-breaking wall with pasted flyers of over a hundred faces shows signs of wear and tear as day four breaks over the tragedy in Surfside, Florida. Not one face of a loved one has been removed from this memorial since no one has been pulled from the concrete carnage... Read More »
California’s ban on assault weapons was overturned by US District Judge Roger Benitez. In his ruling, Judge Benitez held that the ban violates the Second Amendment which gives people the right to bear arms, and that it prevents people from owning weapons that are allowed in other states. "We cannot... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that depending on the circumstances of a police chase, the police cannot enter a home without a warrant, specifically if they are pursuing someone because of a misdemeanor or minor crime. The ruling stems from a case in which a California man was... Read More »
The Supreme Court has just put a crack in the door that the NCAA had nailed shut to prevent college athletes from sharing in most of the massive profits generated by their athletic teams from ticket sales, alumni donations, television rights and other cash cows. How large that crack will... Read More »
The shaky foundation holding up ex-President Trump’s house of cards about election fraud got a bit closer to collapsing when his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was suspended from practicing law in New York State by the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court. In a harshly worded 33-page decision... Read More »
In December 2020, a police officer chasing a driver who had left the scene of a traffic stop rammed the vehicle in an effort to get the driver to pull over. This caused the vehicle being pursued to roll, resulting in the death of one of the passengers, the driver’s... Read More »
Several families are in a battle with the FBI after hundreds of safety deposit boxes from a private vault company, U.S. Private Vaults, were confiscated following the execution of a search warrant in March. The Raid which lasted five days resulted in over 800 safe deposit boxes confiscated by the... Read More »