The State of California owns the California Exposition and State Fair (Cal Expo) fairgrounds near Sacramento. Because the State owns the land, the plaintiff, a man who sought to distribute his religious tokens there, thought he could do so because state-owned land is normally classified as a public forum. public... Read More »
A U.S. jury found that a number of big-name players in the real estate space are liable to pay $1.78 billion in damages regarding allegations that they conspired to artificially inflate commissions for home sales. Named as defendants were the National Association of Realtors and some residential brokerages; Berkshire-owned HomeServices... Read More »
An Illinois family has filed a lawsuit against state officials after police officers executed a wrong-door raid. During the raid, the family says they were illegally detained for over six hours despite their pleas to officers that they had the wrong home. The federal civil rights lawsuit was filed last... Read More »
An investigation into the wage and tip practices of Massachusetts’ MGM Springfield has ended with the company agreeing to pay a multi-million dollar settlement with the state. The hotel and casino destination is located in the heart of Metro Center, Springfield, and was accused in 2018 of violating state wage... Read More »
Amazon is facing serious allegations in a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint that claims the e-commerce behemoth manipulated online prices and destroyed internal communications during a government probe. The unredacted version of the complaint, filed in a Washington federal court, sheds light on the secretive operations of Amazon and its... Read More »
In a recent trial involving FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, where a jury found him guilty of all counts last week, a forensic accountant has played a pivotal role in tracing the whereabouts of a staggering $9 billion in missing customer funds. Peter Easton, an accounting professor at the University of... Read More »
Chloe Psalm Jeri Borden, a 23-year-old single mother and activist, went to a courthouse in Fresno, California, in 2019 to film what she considered to be “law enforcement harassment and misconduct.” She took pictures of people entering and leaving the building and its lobby on her cell phone while she... Read More »
An off-duty Los Angeles police officer shot and killed a schizophrenic man who shoved him from behind and knocked him to the ground when he was sampling a sausage at Costco. The officer said he “believed” the man had a gun and that he was “acting within the scope of... Read More »
In a ruling on Monday, Judge K. Christopher Jayaram of the District Court of Johnson County, Kansas, issued a preliminary injunction against a state law that mandated healthcare providers to inform patients that medication abortion can be reversed and is linked to breast cancer. The injunction will remain in effect... Read More »
Maureen McDermott was sentenced to death for the attempted murder and first-degree murder of her housemate in 1990. She filed a habeas corpus petition that asked the court to review the legality of her conviction, arguing that the district attorney who prosecuted her committed “prejudicial error” when she quoted Biblical... Read More »
The family of a 21-year-old college student who died after drinking a caffeinated beverage from Panera Bread has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The family says the company's deceptive marketing and mislabeling of the drink led their daughter to consume a beverage she would have otherwise avoided. The lawsuit was... Read More »
It’s a war of words in a new lawsuit that aims to control how elementary-age students are taught to read in Ohio. A popular national reading organization, Recovery Council of North America, filed its lawsuit against the state of Ohio and Governor Mike DeWine in an effort to block a... Read More »
Over 80 women have come together in a newly filed class action lawsuit against a Boston area doctor. The lawsuit, which was filed in Massachusetts state court earlier this month, accuses Dr. Derrick Todd of engaging in sexually abusive medical exams. At least 82 women have come together in a... Read More »
When Facebook learned that the personal data of its users had been harvested by a British consulting firm named Cambridge Analytica in 2018, the social media giant violated the Securities and Exchange Act by failing to disclose the data breach to its stockholders for two years. Instead, the Menlo Park-based... Read More »
Because domestic violence can take many forms, California’s courts are often called upon to clarify the definitions and parameters of “abuse” within the meaning of the State’s Domestic Violence Prevention Act (DVPA). A new ruling by a State Court of Appeal adds one additional factor: Repeated false reports to the... Read More »
