In November, Cleveland Officer Timothy Loehmann fired the fatal shots at Tamir within two seconds of arriving outside a recreation center where the sixth-grader was playing with a pellet gun….
Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Al Sharpton were hit last week with a $20 billion lawsuit alleging racial discrimination against black-owned media companies. While Sharpton and Comcast have spoken out…
The University of Oregon dropped a countersuit Thursday against a student who had reported being gang-raped by three of the school’s basketball players and who subsequently sued UO for the…
A man charged with carjacking is seeking more than $1 million in a lawsuit against police officers who are seen on video kicking and beating him. Andrew Jackson Jr. says…
Former basketball player Leah Metcalf, and former football player James Arnold filed a separate but similar class-action lawsuit in state court in North Carolina. Ken Wainstein, who was hired by…
The named plaintiff in the suit describes how one of his dogs died after eating Beneful and two of his dogs got sick. In the past four years, consumers have…
NEW YORK — In a surprising about-face, a federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Occupy Wall Street demonstrators against the New York City Police Department over mass…
WASHINGTON — Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Monday tried to argue that something he wrote in 2010 does not undercut the premise of the anti-Obamacare lawsuit that the Supreme Court…
LOS ANGELES — He is the yoga guru who built an empire on sweat and swagger. He has a stable of luxury cars and a Beverly Hills mansion. During trainings…
The University of Oregon filed a counterclaim earlier this month against a female student who accused the school of mishandling her sexual assault case, insisting her lawsuit will deter rape…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A woman’s lawsuit accuses the University of New Mexico of giving short shrift to her report of being raped by two football players and another man….
Birth place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Birth name: William Henry Cosby, Jr. Father: William Henry, Sr., U.S. Navy mess steward Mother: Anna (Hite) Cosby Marriage: Camille (Hanks) Cosby (January 25, 1964-present) Children:…
FERGUSON Lawsuit pending: The Justice Department may be drafting papers to sue the Ferguson Police Department over a pattern of racially discriminatory tactics used by officers, sources say. What could…
A man wrongly imprisoned for 15 years for a Chicago double murder has sued Northwestern University for $40 million, alleging it allowed an investigative journalism professor to coerce a false…
Laurie Zabawa says she’d been working at a Hilton Garden Inn in Bozeman, Montana, for seven years when the owners outsourced the management of the hotel in 2012. For Zabawa,…
WASHINGTON — A lawsuit against the president over his immigration actions has caused awkwardness in some states, where governors and attorneys general are divided on whether they should sue President…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A teenager who says she was raped after a school worker tried to use her as bait to catch an alleged sexual predator should be forced…
An Alabama police officer has been charged with assault and will be fired after authorities say he badly injured an Indian man whom he stopped to question as the man…
White has had both leukemia or lymphoma since 2007, undergoing rounds of radiation, chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant. Though she’s in partial remission now, White has seen other friends…
Gay rights advocates are celebrating two recent ruling from a New Jersey judge that could be pivotal in the fight to end the controversial practice of using therapy in an…
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES, Feb 11 (Reuters) – A 53-year-old California woman suffering from leukemia sued the state’s attorney general and San Francisco’s top prosecutor on Wednesday seeking the…
The mother of a suicidal New York City inmate who hanged himself in a Rikers Island solitary confinement cell in 2013 after repeatedly threatening to do so — and was…
Birth place: Winsted, Connecticut Birth name: Ralph Nader Father: Nathra Nader Mother: Rose (Bouziane) Nader Education: Princeton University, A.B., 1955, Harvard Law School, L.L.B., 1958 Military: U.S. Army, 1959 Other…
CHICAGO (AP) — A fight is brewing over Gov. Bruce Rauner’s decision to end a requirement that Illinois state workers pay union dues even if they don’t want to join…
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of the National Security Agency in a lawsuit challenging the interception of Internet communications without a…
Birth place: St. Simons Island, Georgia Birth name: James Nathaniel Brown Father: Swinton Brown, a professional boxer Mother: Theresa Brown, a housekeeper Marriages: Monique Gunthrop (1997-present); Sue Jones (1958-1972, divorced)…
One of the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case against the Affordable Care Act listed a short-term-stay motel as her address when she joined the lawsuit, potentially calling into question…
WASHINGTON — If House Republicans want to pursue a “seriously misguided” lawsuit against the president over immigration, they shouldn’t do it by pushing through a resolution without going through a…
Birth place: Myra, West Virginia (grew up in Hamlin) Birth name: Charles Elwood Yeager Father: Albert Hal Yeager, a coal miner and gas driller Mother: Susie Mae (Sizemore) Yeager Marriages:…
WASHINGTON — Over the past year, a number of Republican lawmakers have gravitated to the claim that there is a central flaw in President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Jumping…