Three people are suing the Georgia sheriff who summoned his deputies to assist him in resolving his incorrect Burger King order, claiming he silenced them for criticizing him on the Sheriff’s Office Facebook page in the lead-up to his reelection this month. In March 2023, police body camera footage captured Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens...
Four years after a K-9 officer snarled at her, inflicting her with severe injuries to her scalp, a California lady received over $1 million after settling with the Brentwood Police Department. According to a news release issued by Talmika Bates’ lawyers on November 15, the lawsuit against Brentwood Police Officer Ryan Rezentes claimed that Bates’...
A federal judge in Delaware on Mondaytossedalawsuitfiled by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee against social media giant Meta claiming that the platform unfairly profited from false advertisements for CBD products. Huckabee, President-elect Donald Trump s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, sued Meta in July over a series of ads for CBD gummies. CBD...
A Pennsylvania man is suing Frontier Airlines after he says he was served an “excessively” hot cup of tea without a lid that spilled through his pants and burned his genitalia. Sean Miller, 56, got burned by his tea during a Sept. 20 flight from Myrtle Beach to Philadelphia, he alleges in his lawsuit filed...
The family of an 18-year-old college student who was killed by a stray bullet while exercising has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the university, the city, and the state of Tennessee, among others. Jessica and Matt Ludwig, parents of the late Jillian Ludwig, filed the lawsuit earlier this month in Davidson County Circuit Court...
Attorneys representing President-elect Donald Trump are seeking to get rid of the judge currently presiding over the defamation case brought against him by members of the Central Park Five over comments made about them during his lone presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this year. Trump on Thursday evening filed a motion in...
A 57-year-old man in Oregon convicted of drugging a group of preteen girls by serving fruit smoothies laced with a prescription sedative to his 12-year-old daughter and her friends during a sleepover party is now being sued by one of the victims. The complaint, filed earlier this week in Clackamas County Circuit Court, seeks $2.4...
A federal court on Thursday denied a request by ABC News and George Stephanopoulos to push back some key dates and proceedings in Donald Trump’s defamation case against them. In a four-page order, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida declined to reschedule several remaining deadlines related to expert witnesses, discovery, mediation,...
A Minnesota jury awarded $1.1 million in damages to a couple for the “wrongful conception” of their healthy child after the husband was incorrectly told that his vasectomy had been successful. Steven Szlachtowski had a vasectomy performed at Minnesota Urology in Edina in December 2018. The following May, Szlachtowski went for standard post-vasectomy testing where...
A Minnesota county has agreed to a $3.4 million settlement with the family of an inmate who spent his final hours crawling around on a jail floor “like he was an animal,” dying from the effects of a hole in his intestine as nurses and jailers ignored his desperate pleas for help after he told...