Tag: Lawsuits
Lawsuit: Virginia police officers threatened man during stop
NORFOLK, Va. — A second lieutenant in the U.S. Army is suing two Virginia police officers over a traffic stop during which the officers...
OJ Simpson, Las Vegas Strip hotel settle defamation case
LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson and a Las Vegas hotel-casino have settled a lawsuit alleging that unnamed employees defamed Simpson by telling a celebrity...
Judge tosses former Rep. Katie Hill’s suit against tabloid
LOS ANGELES — A lawsuit by former U.S. Rep. Katie Hill of California against the Daily Mail was dismissed Wednesday by a judge who...
Ohio city to pay couple $450K to settle police abuse lawsuit
CLEVELAND — A Cleveland suburb has agreed to pay a couple $450,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed after a dashcam video...
Florida sues federal government to allow cruises to sail
MIAMI — The state of Florida has filed a lawsuit against the federal government to demand cruise ships be allowed to start sailing immediately,...
Kansas lawmakers likely to pass bill on transgender athletes
TOPEKA, Kan. — LGBTQ-rights advocates in Kansas are relying on the state's Democratic governor or the courts to block a ban on transgender athletes...
Muslim civil rights group sues Facebook over hate speech
A civil rights group is suing Facebook and its executives, saying CEO Mark Zuckerberg made “false and deceptive" statements to Congress when he said...
High court won’t block Mississippi school disparity lawsuit
JACKSON, Miss. — The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday it will not get involved, for now, in a lawsuit that says Mississippi allows grave...
$50M suit alleges retaliation over allegations against coach
BATON ROUGE, La. — In a $50 million federal racketeering lawsuit, an associate athletic director at Louisiana State University accuses university officials of retaliating...
Howard Weitzman, lawyer for Jackson, Bieber, DeLorean, dies
LOS ANGELES — Howard Weitzman, an attorney whose clients included Michael Jackson, Justin Bieber, and auto maker John DeLorean, has died. He was 81....
