Tag: Lawsuits
Louisville pins hopes on Justice Dept. review of policing
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — For the people marching in the streets for more than a year after the killing of Breonna Taylor, a wide-ranging new...
County tells Arizona Senate to keep files, threatens lawsuit
PHOENIX — Maricopa County officials on Friday directed the Arizona Senate and the auditors it hired to review the county's 2020 election count to...
Veteran, retired cop takes case against police to high court
WASHINGTON — Something went wrong at the security checkpoint at the VA hospital in El Paso, Texas, on a winter's day in 2016.
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Suit alleging admissions discrimination moves forward in Va.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge ruled Friday that a parents' group can move forward with a lawsuit alleging that new admissions policies at...
Cubs fan beaten by officer after World Series awarded $53K
CHICAGO — A federal jury has found that a Chicago police lieutenant used excessive force when he tackled and beat a man during the...
Judge: City didn’t target dead lawyer in Mississippi scandal
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming a Mississippi city was at fault in the death of a lawyer who killed himself in...
Suit: Jail inmate asphyxiated while officers restrained him
The daughter of a man who died in a Tennessee jail last year claims in a federal lawsuit that he was asphyxiated while being...
Judge halts Georgia dredging plan over threat to sea turtles
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A federal judge ordered an immediate halt on Thursday to plans to dredge a shipping channel on the Georgia coast, citing...
DOJ: Alabama prisons remain deadly, homicides increasing
MONTGOMERY, Ala, — Alabama prisons remain deadly and dangerous two years after federal officials warned the state of unconstitutional conditions, the U.S. Department of...
Single moms sue Missouri for refusing to expand Medicaid
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Two single mothers are among a group of low-income adults who on Thursday sued Missouri Gov. Mike Parson's administration for dropping...
