The parents of a Tennessee third grader with multiple disabilities are suing their school district for refusing to allow the child’s service dog on campus. Douglas and Sarah Dietz filed a federal lawsuit against the Germantown Municipal School District on behalf of their child, identified in court filings as M.D., who was enrolled at Dogwood...
An election staffer in Colorado claims in a new lawsuit that the City and County of Denver booted her from a supervisor position for allegedly talking about poll worker safety on Apple TV+’s “The Problem with Jon Stewart” show — and now she’s suing. Virginia Chau, a Voter Service and Polling Centers supervisor fired in...
Election officials in Cobb County, Georgia — one of the top battleground counties in the 2024 presidential election, per U.S. News — are scrambling to deliver more than 3,000 absentee ballots past the state’s Oct. 25 deadline, prompting lawsuits from the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Party of Georgia and civil rights groups. “Plaintiffs and...
Lawyers for the family of a prisoner who died in a maximum-security prison in Missouri after being pepper sprayed, covered with a spit hood and tied to a restraint cart released video of the man’s final moments as part of their wrongful death lawsuit against facility staff. Othel Moore Jr., 38, died in December 2023 at...
A woman who came away disappointed with the amount of meat on her Subway Steak & Cheese sandwich has sued the company for what she calls “false and misleading” advertising. Anna Tollison filed a federal class action lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York on Monday against Subway Restaurants Inc. and other subsidiaries on...
Two internet trade groups on Monday filed a federal lawsuit that claims a Florida law passed earlier this year prohibiting children under 14 from having social media accounts violates the First Amendment. The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and NetChoice are suing Ashley Moody, the Sunshine State’s attorney general. This year, Gov. Ron DeSantis,...
Weeks after a federal judge allowed Hunter Biden’s tax return information leak lawsuit against the IRS to move forward and denied an attempt by special agents turned whistleblowers to intervene, the agents have launched an appeal. On Friday, IRS supervisory special agent Gary Shapley and IRS special agent Joseph Ziegler filed a notice of appeal...
A New Jersey hospital is facing a federal lawsuit filed by a Connecticut woman who says it misplaced her stillborn son’s remains and then performed an unauthorized autopsy that violated both her religious beliefs and her specific instructions. 34-year-old Lauren Kodson said she was admitted to Hackensack University Medical Center on Sept. 28, 2022, to...
Dog owners in Texas who “did nothing wrong” cannot sue the City of Waco after police responding to a home invasion 911 call in June 2023 went to the wrong address, based on the erroneous autocorrected information they were given, and fatally shot Finn, the couple’s 10-year-old black Labrador retriever, a state appellate court has...
A Navy veteran suing CNN for defamation, alleging that a 2021 segment aired on “The Lead with Jake Tapper” falsely painted him as an “illegal profiteer” exploiting “desperate Afghans” with “exorbitant” extraction fees amid the fallout of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, persuaded a Florida judge on Monday that he “did not act criminally...