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...
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‘Suffered in the worst way possible’: Video shows prisoner’s final moments suffocating in a mask tied to a cart, lawsuit says
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...
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‘Barely any steak’: Subway sued after woman claims company misleads customers about the amount of meat on subs
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...
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‘Wholly inconsistent with the First Amendment’: Florida AG sued over law banning children’s social media use
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,...
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IRS special agents turned whistleblowers appeal after judge refuses to let them to intervene in Hunter Biden lawsuit over ‘unauthorized’ tax return leaks
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...
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‘Lost in storage’: Woman says hospital misplaced stillborn son’s remains and did an unauthorized autopsy
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...
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‘The law just does not provide a remedy’: Court dismisses couple’s lawsuit ‘with prejudice’ after police dispatched to wrong address fatally shot their dog
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...
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‘A bridge too far’: After CNN adds Amber Heard lawyer, judge rules in favor of Navy veteran as major defamation case careens towards trial on Jan. 6
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...
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Dad left comatose after cops shocked him with Taser in water, watched him scream and didn’t get help: Lawsuit
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,...
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‘The antithesis of justice’: Judge who put tired teen in handcuffs during field trip says immunity protects him from lawsuit
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...