Boxing Champ
Jamie 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.
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Abusive School
Four 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 moreWoman Charged With Hate Crime Amid NYC Anti-Semitic Attacks
A 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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No Slander in Baldwin’s Account of Purloined Parking Spot
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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Seattle Court Entrance Closed After Violent Attacks
Citing “constant reports of assaults,” Presiding Judge James Rogers closed the main entrance to the King County Courthouse in Seattle Tuesday.
Read moreExcessive Force
Parents 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.
Read moreActor’s Anti-SLAAP
A California appeals court upheld the denial of Shia LaBeouf’s anti-SLAPP motion in a case relating to an altercation he had with a bartender who refused to serve the actor and his companion alcohol. LaBeouf called the bartender a “racist” and video footage of the incident was posted on the internet and broadcast on TMZ. The bartender sued for assault and slander.
Read moreBorder Shooting
A Mexican man sued the United States for $1 million in federal court, claiming a Border Patrol agent shot him from behind as he knelt on the ground, unarmed, in rural Webb County, Texas, for which the agent was charged with aggravated assault.
Read moreTennessee Cop Accused of Groping Minors Faces Fourth Lawsuit
A sheriff’s deputy in southeast Tennessee accused of groping underage girls and baptizing a woman under duress was hit with a fourth lawsuit Wednesday.
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Astros Fire Executive After Clubhouse Rant
The Houston Astros fired their assistant general manager Thursday amid an investigation by Major League Baseball into comments he shouted at a group of female reporters as the team celebrated a pennant-clinching win last Saturday.
Read moreDefamation
Jacqueline Kent Cooke, daughter of the late Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke, claims The Daily Mail, The Morning Call and G/O Media dba Jezebel defamed her by claiming she “pled guilty to and/or was convicted of an anti-Semitic physical assault on a Jewish lawyer in New York City,” in New York County Supreme Court.
Read moreUS Public Land Workers Getting Assaulted, Threatened on Job
Federal employees overseeing U.S. public lands were assaulted or threatened at least 360 times over a five-year period marked by heightened tensions with anti-government groups, a congressional watchdog agency said Monday.
Read moreOfficer Who Shot Naked Man Found Not Guilty of Murder
A former Georgia police officer who fatally shot an unarmed, naked man was found not guilty of murder on Monday, but was convicted of aggravated assault and other charges that could send him to prison for more than 30 years.
Read moreNew York Bomber Convicted in Shootout With New Jersey Police
An Islamic terrorist already serving a life prison term for a bombing in New York City was convicted Tuesday of multiple counts of attempted murder and assault stemming from a shootout with police three years ago.
Read moreJiu-Jitsu Scuffle
An Orange County, California, grand jury has indicted MMA fighter Ralph Gracie on a felony assault charge stemming from incident involving five-time Jiu-Jitsu world champion Flavio Almeida that knocked out Almeida’s two front teeth.
Read moreRunner Accuses U of Arizona of Defamation & Assault
A University of Arizona cross-country runner was assaulted by a coach and repeatedly bullied by coaches and teammates for a year, but was told that he simply needed to learn to “fit in,” according to a federal lawsuit filed against the university Monday.
Read moreSixth Circuit Orders Tougher Sentence for Rand Paul Attacker
A 30-day prison sentence for the man who attacked Senator Rand Paul outside his Kentucky home two years ago is too lenient, the Sixth Circuit ruled Monday.
Read moreFormer Ohio Judge Changes Plea, Admits to Killing Ex-Wife
A disgraced former Cleveland judge faces life in prison following his guilty plea Tuesday to the murder of his estranged ex-wife, after denying the charge last year.
Read moreTexas School Officials Accused of Coloring Black Student’s Head
A black student claims in a federal lawsuit that white administrators at his Texas junior high school humiliated him and violated his civil rights by coloring in a stylized line in his haircut with a black Sharpie.
Read moreMan Charged With Assault in National Anthem Flap With Teen
A U.S. Army veteran who choked and threw a 14-year-old boy to the ground for not removing his hat during the national anthem at a small-town Montana rodeo pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of assault.
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