Over 100 insurance companies have filed a joint lawsuit against the Texas power grid operator and power generating companies behind the electric grid failure following the devastating 2021 Winter Storm Uri. The historic storm resulted in over half a million insurance claims and roughly $10.3 billion in insured Texas losses.... Read More »
A bombshell lawsuit accuses some of the nation’s top universities of operating in a cartel-like fashion, favoring students from wealthy and privileged backgrounds and artificially inflating the cost of attendance for financial aid recipients. The lawsuit was filed by five undergrad students in Chicago federal court. At the heart of... Read More »
If one kindergarten child trips another on a school playground, should the injured student be entitled to a $1.25 million award? Not if the activity was supervised by a teacher, the California Court of Appeal said as it reversed the judgment of the trial court. It seems that six years... Read More »
Attention consumers: The United States Department of Agriculture rang in the New Year with new, mandated food labels. Starting January 1, 2022, “GMO” and “GE” are out and “bioengineered” is in. Back in the 1970’s scientists began experimenting with ways to introduce more desirable characteristics into plants and animals. In... Read More »
A Virginia state senator will receive $300,000 as part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit she filed following felony charges that were brought against her after a 2020 protest. Virginia senator Louise Lucas was charged with conspiracy to commit a felony and injury to a monument in excess of... Read More »
Authorities have indicated that a space heater may be to blame for the five-alarm fire that broke out in a Brooklyn 19-story apartment complex Sunday morning. Authorities are also investigating whether a lack of proper safety measures played a role in the horrific events. The fire broke out on Sunday... Read More »
David Schottenstein, a member of the prominent Schottenstein retail family, is expected to plead guilty to charges of insider trading early next month. Schottenstein, the grandson of retail tycoon Jay Schottenstein, is facing allegations of using his family connections to procure illegal stock trading tips. The Schottenstein family is made... Read More »
After a six-month trail, a six-member jury in New York found Teva Pharmaceuticals, based in Israel, and numerous subsidiary firms, liable for New York state's drug epidemic. This landmark case deemed Teva Pharmaceuticals is responsible for New York state's severe opioid crisis, connecting the dots from manufacturing to sales to... Read More »
Five days after he was released from prison, a schizophrenic man was arrested for attempted rape with an enhancement for inflicting bodily injury. He waived a jury trial, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to six years in prison. Committed to a state mental hospital for treatment before commencing his prison... Read More »
After a weeklong standoff, Chicago Public Schools resumed in-person learning after a proposal was approved by the Chicago Teachers Union’s House of Delegates. The Chicago Teachers Union tweeted Monday night, "The Chicago Teachers Union House of Delegates has voted tonight to suspend the Union's remote work action while rank-and-file membership... Read More »
New York Real Estate Scion and convicted killer, Robert Durst, has passed away at age 78 while under the custody of California’s Department of Corrections. Durst’s death was announced by his lawyer Chip Lewis who shared, "We understand that his death was due to natural causes associated with the litany... Read More »
The state of Illinois has hit another roadblock in its goal to end a federal immigration detention program this week. Illinois would become the sixth in the nation to limit contracts between county and city jails with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house immigrant detainees. Governor J.B. Pritzker... Read More »
Cyber Ninjas, a Florida firm hired by the Arizona State Senate to review presidential election results in Maricopa County after former Donald Trump claimed the election had been stolen from him, was fined by Judge John Hannah $50,000 a day last week for contempt. The company, which has been criticized... Read More »
A jury of four women and eight men deliberated for more than fifty hours and returned with a unanimous guilty verdict convicting Elizabeth Holmes, 37, founder of biotech company Theranos, of three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. In total, she had been... Read More »
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 »
