After an appeals court revived claims over a student’s mistaken-identity arrest, the Supreme Court on Monday said it will decide whether the initial dismissal of the case amounted to a merits judgment.
Read moreA woman sued Uber in L.A. Superior Court, claiming a driver sexually battered and beat her, stole her cellphone so she couldn’t call for help, double-billed her, tipping himself $10 and stole $60 from her purse.
Read moreA delivery driver claims in federal court that Los Angeles sheriff’s officers beat the hell out of him for no reason at all, while hurling racial epithets at him, then jailed him for 11 hours, also for no reason.
Read moreAn appeals court in Florida directed a lower court to reinstate a jury verdict awarding $125,000 to a high school football player who was taunted and physically assaulted by his coach. The player said the coach pinched and twisted his nipple on numerous occasions for extended periods of time, permanently disfiguring it.
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A petrochemical company’s criminal trial over air pollutants released during Hurricane Harvey that sickened first responders was pushed back three days Monday when a state judge sanctioned prosecutors.
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A pledge to close the health and wellbeing gap between Aboriginal and other Australians is failing, the government admitted Wednesday, describing the situation as a source of “national shame.”
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In a lawsuit that decries the “fraternity culture” at Goldman Sachs, a former intern says he suffered a traumatic brain injury after being choked to unconsciousness by one of its wealth advisers.
Read moreA man working as security personnel during an NBA finals match is suing Masai Ujiri, as well as the Toronto Raptors and the NBA, claiming in a federal lawsuit filed Friday that the Raptors’ president physically attacked him during a game.
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Rejecting an immunity defense, a federal judge refused to dismiss claims brought by a group of protesters who were beaten by Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s security personnel during his visit to the White House three years ago.
Read moreA father was properly sentenced for assault convictions relating to the abuse of his three teenage children who were imprisoned in a squalid bedroom in his ex-wife’s home, an Iowa appeals court ruled. One of the children died of emaciation. The father had challenged the court’s statements comparing his conduct to the “inaction of bystanders during the Holocaust and the Rohingya conflict in Myanmar.”
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The Connecticut woman who drove through security checkpoints outside President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club Friday, prompting Secret Service to open fire on her, has a history of mental illness and was off her medication at the time of the incident, her attorney claimed.
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After drawing law enforcement scrutiny for dancing on her vehicle at an upscale hotel Friday morning, a woman took police on a high-speed chase towards President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, driving through security barriers until officers opened fire.
Read moreA family claims Utah Probation and Parole officers swarmed into their house looking for a man they knew was not there, beat family members without reason and stole $7,000 from the house, in federal court.
Read moreJamie Frontz sued light heavyweight boxing champ Sergey Kovalev in federal court, claiming he still owes $400,000 of the $650,000 he promised to pay to settle an assault lawsuit.
Read moreFour more former residents of The Glen Mills (reform) Schools claim they were assaulted by staff members, and three say they were sexually assaulted by them, bringing to five the number of such lawsuits this week, in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.
Read moreA woman accused of slapping three people in one of a series of apparently anti-Semitic attacks reported throughout New York during Hanukkah was charged Saturday with attempted assault as a hate crime, court records show.
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Lawyers for Alec Baldwin applauded a judge Friday for tossing a slander claim tied to the Manhattan parking spot brawl that got their famous, and famously hot-headed, client arrested.
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Citing “constant reports of assaults,” Presiding Judge James Rogers closed the main entrance to the King County Courthouse in Seattle Tuesday.
Read moreParents of an 11-year-old boy sued Maury County, Tenn., its public schools and sheriff’s department, claiming school resource officer Timothy Byrdsong assaulted their son on campus, in an incident that was caught on video.
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