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Aug. 10—JEFFERSONVILLE — The former chair of the Jeffersonville Urban Enterprise Zone's board of directors continues to fight her 2020 removal from the position. A lawsuit filed in 2021 in Clark Circuit Court No. 1 by Peggy Hardaway is scheduled for an October jury trial. Hardaway was replaced by Jeffersonville City Councilman Dustin White for alleged just cause, though the council members who ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorneys for an autistic teen who was allegedly stunned with a stun gun 17 times by a former Pickens County sheriff’s deputy filed a civil lawsuit against the deputy and the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday. A video provided by the Anastopoulo Law Firm shows an officer using a stun gun on Aaron Vasquez, who is non-verbal, on Aug. 20, 2021. The then-17-year-old fell ...
DETROIT — An Oakland County Circuit Court judge granted a request Wednesday on behalf of parents suing the Oxford Community Schools to add new allegations that an armed security guard at the high school could have prevented at least one student's death during the November mass shooting. Judge Rae Lee Chabot approved Detroit attorney Ven Johnson's fourth amended complaint to the parents' ...
A civil court judge has cleared Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes of any wrongdoing in the lawsuit filed by Henry Hernandez, the media specialist who claimed to be the victim of retaliation in part for refusing to process what he said were “inappropriate” photos of Valdes and her husband. Bergen County Judge Robert Vinci issued an order on Aug. 5 dismissing four of the five counts in ...
Aug. 10—ROCHESTER — The scope of an Olmsted County social worker's allegations of age, racial and gender discrimination took center stage Wednesday. Wilhelmina Jacob, a 20-year county employee, filed a lawsuit in April against the county, alleging younger, less qualified, white applicants have been given jobs she sought. While Aaron Knoll of the Minneapolis-based Greene Espel Law Firm said the ...
The Illinois Department of Corrections is again under fire for failing to provide adequate health care for the roughly 29,000 prisoners in its system, with a scathing federal monitor’s report this week citing shortcomings that ranged from the mistreatment of elderly inmates to a severe shortage of doctors and nurses and poor record keeping. The report was released just days after a federal ...
Walgreens helped fuel the opioid epidemic in San Francisco by shipping hundreds of thousands of "suspicious orders" of prescription drugs to its pharmacies, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. More than 100 million prescription opioid pills were dispensed by Walgreens in the city between 2006 and 2020, and during that time, the pharmacy giant failed to investigate hundreds of thousands of orders ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio— Cleveland Orchestra’s health insurance refused to pay for necessary surgeries for an employee who suffered complications from her gender-affirmation surgery, according to a lawsuit filed late Wednesday. Rem Wransky filed the allegations in federal court in Cleveland against the orchestra and the third-party administrator of its insurance policy, Business Administrators and ...
Aug. 10—Attorneys for two Anne Arundel County restaurant owners filed notice Wednesday that they have appealed a circuit judge's decision to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the county health officer's January masking order, months after the health mandate expired. The lawsuit filed in January by two business owners argued that Anne Arundel County Health Officer Dr. Nilesh Kalyanaraman had ...
The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled the state does not have to pay inmates minimum wages, upholding a lower court decision to dismiss a lawsuit brought by an inmate. The lawsuit named the Nevada Division of Forestry, the Nevada Department of Conservation and the State of Nevada as defendants. The complaint was filed by now-former inmate David Gonzalez, who had worked clearing brush and cleaning ...