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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 ...

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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 ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Democratic Party has filed a lawsuit to remove Labor Party candidates from the November 2022 ballot. The Labor Party nominated Gary Votour for governor and his running mate Harold Geddings for lieutenant governor, and Lucus Faulk in the 1st Congressional District race during a nominating convention last month despite a dispute among party leaders whether to ...

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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 to the ground as ...

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SAN JOSE — Google is making progress in efforts to settle land transfers for downtown San Jose parcels dating back to the mid-19th Century that reside within the footprint of the tech titan’s transit village, court papers show. A legal battle had erupted that pitted Google and the city of San Jose against a group of individuals to determine the ownership of remnants of small land parcels near ...

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Longtime defense attorney Stephen Stein, whose career spanned work on the east coast and several decades Las Vegas, has died. He was 78. Stein died at St. Rose Dominican Hospital, San Martin campus on July 20, according to Stein’s daughter Katie Stein, 20. For the last two years, Katie Stein and her boyfriend, Anthony Dowding, had cared for Stein. “He was definitely the best dad ever,” Katie ...

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BALTIMORE — The wife of Orioles owner Peter Angelos claims in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that their younger son, Louis Angelos, has sold his father’s law firm, which over the decades has won billions of dollars for victims of asbestos and tobacco, for a price to be determined later. The buyer: Louis Angelos himself. Georgia K. Angelos’ claim, in Baltimore County Circuit Court, comes two months ...

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The wife of Orioles owner Peter Angelos claims in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that their younger son, Louis Angelos, has sold his father’s law firm, which over the decades has won billions of dollars for victims of asbestos and tobacco, for a price to be determined later. The buyer: Louis Angelos himself. Georgia K. Angelos’ claim, in Baltimore County Circuit Court, comes two months after she and ...

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Aug. 9—Baker Botts, one of Houston's largest law firms, signed a long-term lease renewal at its longtime headquarters in downtown Houston in one of the largest office leases of the year. The global law firm completed a 172,301-square-foot lease extension for eight floors at 910 Louisiana, according to commercial real estate firms Cushman & Wakefield and Savills. Terms were not disclosed. The ...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio—The OneOhio Recovery Foundation Board, set up to decide how distribute hundreds of millions of dollars of opioid settlement money, is refusing to divulge records or allow the public to attend meetings, according to lawsuits filed by a drug policy reform group. The lawsuits, filed by Harm Reduction Ohio, claim that OneOhio officials haven’t responded to the group’s request for ...