2022 is the year of mass corporate layoffs. Although the antics of Elon Musk following his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter have captured the media’s attention, Twitter is not the only major corporation to fire thousands of employees amid recession fears. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is laying off more than... Read More »
The parents of an eight-year-old boy who suffered a horrific fall after going up a popular rock climbing wall in Chicago’s Navy Pier are suing the operators of the rock climbing wall and other defendants. Erin and Gideon Brewer were visiting Chicago's Navy Pier from Grand Rapids, Michigan, on July... Read More »
In a one-of-a-kind unraveling, one of the nation's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX, has filed for bankruptcy, is facing mounting lawsuits, and has customers wondering where their investments have gone and whether they’ll ever see their money again. At his peak, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, or SBF as he’s become known... Read More »
A Henderson, Tennessee, man has filed a lawsuit against the operators of a Christian Camp ten years after signing a confidential settlement with its operators, as reported by the Associated Press. Named in the lawsuit are the operators of the camp, including Kanakuk Ministries, Kanakuk CEO Joe White, Kanakuk Heritage... Read More »
The Senate has passed historic legislation recognizing same-sex marriage at both the federal and state levels. This measure passed with the vote of 62 Senators, including 12 Republicans. The vote to finalize the bill is set to be done the week of November 28, the week after the Thanksgiving holiday.... Read More »
Ohio’s Kent State University is at the center of a recently filed federal gender discrimination lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by the university’s only open transgender professor. According to the professor, the university violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. GPat Patterson is an assistant professor at... Read More »
When a group of SpaceX workers wrote and published complaints about their new CEO Elon Musk’s tweets in an open letter last summer, they weren’t expecting executives to fire them. But a day after their public letter was published, SpaceX executives showed up, first firing five of the workers, and... Read More »
Many problems with court administration can be at least partially solved with more funding. But one of its most disturbing challenges cannot be cured with additional money. Rather, the solution requires more trained and qualified people. One current crisis is the severe shortage of court reporters. There just aren’t enough... Read More »
The son of a man who was killed In a West Virginia helicopter crash in June is suing the company that operated the helicopter and others for wrongful death. Sixty-four-year-old Marvin Bledsoe was one of six passengers who died after the Vietnam-era Bell UH-1B “Huey” helicopter crashed roughly fifteen minutes... Read More »
Tech Giant Apple is facing a class action lawsuit because of its alleged misleading user privacy standards and the way in which they track users and their data. For years Apple has been outspoken about user privacy and the lengths they're willing to go to enable users to have control... Read More »
A captain in the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office (RSCO) in California was fired because of sexual improprieties with women under his command and numerous other violations of RSCO employment policies. The sheriff’s office had heard rumors about the captain’s misconduct but did not immediately begin to investigate. After his termination,... Read More »
A white sign-language interpreter for the Broadway hit The Lion King is suing Theatre Development Fund (TDF) for allegedly firing him based on his race. Keith Wann, 53, filed his lawsuit suit against the non-profit TDF for discrimination. The federal discrimination lawsuit was filed against both TDF and the director... Read More »
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, had made a request to the Supreme Court that he would not have to testify to a Georgia grand jury about an investigation into alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. An order of the court refused... Read More »
The constitutions of both the United States and the State of California forbid the use of peremptory challenges to exclude potential jurors based on their membership in a “cognizable group.” This is defined as “an identifiable group distinguished on racial, religious, ethnic, or similar grounds.” The definition of “similar grounds”... Read More »
In a recent appellate court ruling, the rights of transgender women to participate in Miss United States of America LLC beauty pageants were challenged in what some activists have called a setback for the trans community. The U.S court of appeals for the ninth circuit has upheld a lower court’s... Read More »
