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A recent story out of Louisiana State University (LSU) alleges that the president of the LSU Alumni Association asked to pay off a woman he had a sexual relationship with if she resigned from her job. In no […]
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If you’ve never had to file a claim or sue anyone before, it can be difficult to understand the different scenarios in which you find yourself. What are the different things I can make a claim/sue […]
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The operator of El Dorado Chemical Company, the south Arkansas chemical plant that exploded in 2012, has filed a federal lawsuit against Air Liquide, the supplier that is responsible for over $100 million in damages and […]
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Workers at Co-op City apartment complex in the Bronx are claiming that they have been cheated out of compensation, including overtime pay. In a class-action lawsuit, the workers claim that the companies that run the apartment […]
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A federal lawsuit has been charged against the company whose chemicals leaked into the Elk River and left thousands of West Virginians without water for more than a week. Eastman Chemical Company, which makes a chemical […]
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A settlement has been reached in the Lafayette city-parish government after a woman filed a lawsuit because she broad-sided a police cruiser that was going through a red light while responding to another traffic accident. The […]
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In 2009 a student at Minnesota Duluth was riding her bicycle and became injured after she was thrown from her bike near an intersection. The city of Duluth had recently resurfaced the intersection that Cassandra Olson […]
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A gym teacher at the former Rogers School, Robert Martinez, sexually assaulted an 8-year-old boy in the 1970’s under the noses of school officials. A suit filed against Martinez seeks unspecified damages against him, who now […]
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Maurice Howard, a 27-year-old black man from Maui, is suing Hertz and Facebook because employees of the car company made racist comments about him on the social website. His attorney stated what was done was a […]
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When a routine surgical procedure went wrong at John Cochran VA Medical Center, a U.S. Army veteran lost his leg and suffered severe brain damage. He’s been awarded $8.3 million in a medical negligence lawsuit. Dirk […]
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Johnson & Johnson is in the media again – this time it’s for defective hip implants. The company will pay more than $4 billion to settle more than 7,500 lawsuits. Thousands of people have already had […]
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Five years ago, a young woman, Debra Davis, and her friend were killed due to drunk driving after a country music concert at Gillette Stadium in Boston. Davis’ family was seeking $2.5 million from the Kraft […]
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In Nashville, nearly a half a million settlement has been agreed upon – a United States immigrant was illegally shackled to a hospital bed during labor because she was arrested during a traffic stop. This ends […]
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In 2011, the Cates family elected (after having scheduled a C-section) for a vaginal delivery for their breech baby. After consulting with numerous doctors, the Cates felt this was a safe way to deliver their baby […]
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Leon D. Ford, a 20-year-old man from Shael, Pennsylvania is filing a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Pittsburgh, its police leadership and three officers this week. Ford is accusing officers of, “excessive force, unlawful […]
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A New York City family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit asking for $25 million against the New York Police Department after their son, a bodega worker; Rynaldo Cuevas was shot and killed by police officers […]
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Keyarika “Shea” Diggles of Jasper, Texas has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Jasper Police Department in connection with a beating she sustained at the city jail. The lawsuit alleges excessive force, racial discrimination and conspiracy […]
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Reginal Deon Davis of Texas City sued the City of Galveston for, “failing to properly train it’s officers”; those officers being Archie Chapman and Jose H. Santos who allegedly exerted excessive force after an altercation that was […]
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Eddie, “Ryan”, Owens, the 3-year-old son of former Detective Eddie P. Owens, traumatically died from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound after accessing and playing with his father’s work pistol which was stored in the family’s home […]
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Jeffrey Schneider, 59, and his wife, Connie Schneider, were awarded $6.4 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit as a result of a stroke that he had suffered in 2007. According to the Schneiders, their doctor, Dr. Joseph […]
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It was just a typical day at work at Montalvo Corp., a Main-based maker of paper-making machine parts, when Kevin D’Allaird of Albany experienced an injury that later turned into a 1 million dollar settlement in […]
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Single mom, Jennifer Kerr had dreams of becoming a nurse to improve her family’s future. She saw many advertisements for Vetterott on television and decided to visit the admissions representative shortly after. The school’s representative told […]
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Megabus has become well-known in the US today due to their ability to cheaply and comfortably transport people from city to city throughout the eastern and central United States. Rates are as low at $1.00/ticket. Unfortunately […]
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A lawsuit has been settled in Montgomery, Alabama with a Millbrook Police officer who claimed she faced sexual harassment. If approved by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, a consent decree would […]
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In Fayetteville, North Carolina, the Fayette Police Department faces a federal wrongful death charge from the November 2011 shooting of a motorist during a traffic stop. On behalf of the estate of her son Gregory Paul […]
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A group of Pizza Hut workers have joined forces to sue owners of the franchises all over the country, including locations in Topeka, Kansas. NPC International owns and operates Pizza Hut restaurants across 28 different states, […]
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The eccentric, millionaire artist best known for the “Cadillac Ranch” art display along the interstate highway of the Texas Panhandle, has settled lawsuits from ten teenagers who said he paid them for sex acts. Stanley Marsh’s […]
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Marathon Oil has been involved in a wrongful death lawsuit involving the mother of a 21-year-old Montana man who was found dead at a North Dakota oil well in 2012. The lawsuit has been settled. Marathon […]
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The mother of a 15-year old girl who was shot in the head by her ex-boyfriend has filed a civil lawsuit against the 18 year-old boy and his grandparents, who owned the Texas property where the […]
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Not even four months after Twin Rivers Unified School District was dealt a lawsuit accusing the district’s police officers of brutality and false arrest, the school district has agreed to pay $650,000 in settlement. In the […]
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A couple in Brevard County, Florida has filed a lawsuit against five state and local child welfare agencies, claiming that officials did not investigate reports of two children, who the couple later adopted, being abused while […]
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A former model on the U.S. hit game show, “Price is Right,” won $7.7 million in punitive damages by a Los Angeles court on November 21, 2012 after the model sued the show for not letting […]
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A federal jury ruled Tuesday that Chicago Police have obeyed to the code of silence when protecting fellow officers after a lawsuit was filed by a female bartender who was videotaped being beaten by an off-duty […]
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The family of Brian Beaver, 24, of Washington, is suing a bar in Montana that served alcohol to the man who ultimately killed him that night. The lawsuit alleges that the bar failed to use reasonable […]
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