Last week, Louisiana’s Gov. John Bel Edwards granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy in what has been described as an effort to correct a historic injustice, 130 years overdue. Plessy was the man behind the landmark Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson. In 1896, the Supreme Court decided in... Read More »
The family of a Texas teen who was brutally attacked by his classmates is suing those classmates and their parents in a $50 million lawsuit. Sixteen-year-old football star Cole Hagan was brutally attacked at a house party in Lake Jackson, Texas, during the late evening hours of December 3rd last... Read More »
In a lawsuit filed against a small southeastern Virginia town, Attorney General Mark Herring alleges that the police department of Windsor, VA operated in a manner that led to the discriminatory treatment of African Americans. The lawsuit stems from a December 2020 traffic stop which involved Windsor police officers and... Read More »
In a battle about the legal meaning of a key phrase in the governing statute, the California Supreme Court determined that a non-profit corporation was liable for over $12 million in costs caused by one of its employees who negligently ignited a fire that destroyed almost 7,500 acres of land... Read More »
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, each state has enacted its own unique laws on vaccines and testing requirements to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. While the Supreme Court has ruled in the past on two paramount cases that give the state the power to enforce vaccine mandates, it doesn’t create an... Read More »
Despite the fact that COVID-19 cases increased by more than 40% in the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, legal challenges to the Biden Administration’s “vaccine or test” mandates for large employers and health care workers are mounting. The Supreme Court has now agreed to hear oral arguments on... Read More »
A drunk driving suspect who caused a fatal accident was given a warrantless search of his blood after being taken by helicopter to a hospital. On his way to surgery, police asked for and received the sample. During his trial for second-degree murder and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, he... Read More »
Medical groups including the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), and the American College of Radiology (ACR) have brought forward a lawsuit against several government agencies over the implementation of the No Surprise Billing Act. The lawsuit was filed in the federal district court... Read More »
CVS is at the center of a misleading advertisement lawsuit. The class-action suit was filed by plaintiff Toni Larusso and accuses CVS Health Corporation and CVS Pharmacy of misleading consumers by labeling its CVS brand cough medicine as “non-drowsy” despite Larusso’s claims that the cough medicine includes active ingredients which... Read More »
A Muslim woman has filed a federal lawsuit against a gun range in Kansas City, Mo. after alleging that the gun range refused her service because she was wearing a hijab, a religious head covering worn by Muslim women. The lawsuit details that since at least 2016 the Frontier Justice... Read More »
An ex-employee of Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. is suing the company because he says he was fired from his job after he unknowingly reported to work while he was sick. The lawsuit which was filed in the Southern District of Florida claims that Teva Pharmaceuticals discriminated and retaliated against the... Read More »
Filing a claim for life insurance benefits requires notifying the insurance company that a death has occurred and providing proof of loss as required by the policy terms, usually in the form of an official death certificate. The policy might dictate more specifically what types of documentation must be submitted... Read More »
Disciplining high school students for racist, bullying, vulgar, or harassing speech posted on social media does not violate the First Amendment whether it occurs on campus or in the privacy of students’ homes. The Ninth Circuit followed a recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that said social media posts... Read More »
He’s “really, really ashamed,” but he’s going to Federal prison for 63 months, the longest sentence yet issued for one of the January 6 Capitol rioters. Of the 700-plus rioters who attempted a coup of the 2020 election results, Robert Scott Palmer, a 54-year old Largo, Florida man was charged... Read More »
The Department of Defense (DoD) under the umbrella of the Pentagon released a report discussing political extremism in the US military. The Pentagon review was triggered in April by the January 6 Capitol Hill Riots, after the DoD discovered numerous former members of the military participated in the DC insurrection.... Read More »
