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...
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...