Enlarge / Leonel Cordova (L) and Noris Cordova, who are not plaintiffs in this lawsuit, speak to a CBP officer at Miami International Airport on March 4, 2015 in Miami, Florida. (credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) A Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, a California artist, a limousine driver and several other Americans have sued the Department of […]
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U.S. couple suing Amazon alleging fake eclipse glasses damaged their vision
A couple from South Carolina have launched a proposed class-action lawsuit against Amazon for selling counterfeit eclipse-viewing glasses they allege resulted in permanent vision damage. CBC | Health News
Uber shareholders ask Benchmark to step down after suing former CEO
In what is rapidly devolving into an all-out brawl on the board of the world’s highest-valued private company, a group of Uber shareholders have asked the venture capital firm Benchmark to step down from the board of directors. This move comes only a day after Benchmark took the aggressive step of filing suit against Uber’s […]
An 8-year-old transgender student is suing a California private school for not recognizing her as a girl
AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File An 8-year-old transgender student and his parents are suing an Orange Country private school for failing to let him express his identity as a girl. The lawsuit, filed Aug. 2, alleges that Heritage Oak Private School violated the Unruh Civil Rights Act which outlaws discrimination based on sex or sexual orientation because it wouldn’t allow […]
Pastors suing Coca-Cola claim black community loses ‘more people to sweets than streets’
A couple of African American pastors in the Washington, DC area claim that Coke’s sugary drink and “deceptive marketing” are destroying their communities more than violence in the streets. Pastors William Lamar, from DC’s Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Delman Coates, from Mount Enon Church in Maryland, claim that the soda manufacturer deceived customers […]
AT&T joins net neutrality protest—despite suing to block neutrality rules
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | ljhimages) AT&T says it is joining a big protest to save net neutrality—even though the company previously sued the US Federal Communications Commission in a failed attempt to get the commission’s rules thrown out. “Tomorrow, AT&T will join the ‘Day of Action’ for preserving and advancing an open Internet,” AT&T Senior Executive […]
Did you hear the one about a monkey suing a photographer for infringement?
Enlarge (credit: David Slater / Naruto) On Wednesday, a federal appeals court will embark on a legal safari of sorts: animal rights activists, representing an Indonesian monkey named Naruto, are set to argue to the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals that their monkey client should be recognized as the lawful owner of […]
Former immigrant detainees are suing a detention center over paying them $1 a day for labor
Associated Press/David Zalubowski DENVER (AP) — Every day, immigrants are told to clean their living areas in a privately run Colorado detention center or risk being put in solitary confinement. Some also volunteer to do jobs as varied as landscaping, more cleaning and cutting other inmates’ hair, but the pay is always the same — […]
3 more Fox News employees are suing over alleged sexual harassment and racial discrimination
Veronika Bondarenko (Mic) — Three current and former Fox News employees have filed legal complaints alleging discrimination at the conservative news channel. The new suits, which were filed Monday against Fox News’ parent company 21st Century Fox, come amid a slew of other complaints alleging a company culture that tolerated gender discrimination, sexual harassment and […]
‘Total blackout’: Lawyer suing DNC for fraud speaks out on lack of media coverage
The lawyer who filed a class-action lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee and its ex-chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz nearly a year ago tells RT that there has been a “mainstream media blackout” of the fraud case stemming from the 2016 primary. The class action lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee and former chair Congresswoman Debbie […]
