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...
A California police officer repeatedly used a Taser on an unarmed man who was standing in 50-degree water, watched the man beg for help as his lungs filled up, and only called paramedics after the man became unresponsive, according to a civil rights lawsuit. The civil rights lawsuit alleges that Deontae Faison, 35, who is Black,...
The Michigan judge who set off a firestorm after treating a 15-year-old girl who fell asleep during a field trip to his courtroom as an accused criminal says that he isn’t subject to her lawsuit against him. As Law&Crime previously reported, Detroit 36th District Judge Kenneth King made headlines in August when he spotted the...
A teenage boy who just wanted to enjoy a day out at the State Fair of Texas with his family members was trampled and seriously injured by a police horse that “ran wild through the crowd” after a mounted Dallas police officer spilled a cup of soda on the equine, a $1 million dollar lawsuit...
Parents of a 10-year-old boy are suing an elite California private elementary school for expelling the fifth grader after he sent a classmate emails containing squirt gun emoji and lyrics from the YNW Melly rap song “Murder on My Mind.” The suit is against Curtis School in Los Angeles, which reportedly costs more than $28,000...