A security guard for 555 California Street in San Francisco, who was injured and had to have part of his skull and brain removed after a confrontation with skateboarders, is suing the building’s owners and operators, Thrasher Magazine, skateboarder Jesse Vieira, and others for damages.
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Battery and negligence claims against three police officers and a municipal liability claim against the city of Anaheim may continue in a case brought by the parents of a homeless, mentally ill man who was fatally shot by police, a federal court in California ruled.
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MANHATTAN (CN) — The Second Circuit on Monday revived a suit that accuses Madison Square Garden of deploying unreasonable force
Read moreA San Francisco Bay Area woman has accused a fertility doctor of using his own sperm to impregnate her not once, but twice — rather than the anonymous donor she requested.
Read moreA woman suing as Jane Doe claims Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones forcibly kissed her on the mouth without her consent and says the team is “criminally complicit” because it’s aware of his “problems with womanizing.”
Read moreA Fox Sports audio technician filed a complaint in Louisiana state court accusing Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back T.J. Logan of forcefully pushing him to the ground during a game against the New Orleans Saints last year.
Read moreThe rapper Quando Rondo faces a battery claim from the 16-year-old girl he spat on at the 2K18 Holiday Jam concert. An admission from the rapper whose real name is Tyquan Terrel Bowman is quoted in the complaint. “Idgaf That Bitch Spit On Me First And I Don’t Give AF About None of Y’all I’m Rich Y’all Broke,” Bowman posted to his 200,000-plus Instagram followers.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of First Amendment and Equal Protection claims against University of California officials brought by a woman whose plans to attend a speech by far-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley were thwarted by protests. The woman’s battery claim against one of the protesters, however, was improperly dismissed.
Read moreOklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed into law Tuesday a reclassification of several domestic abuse charges as violent crimes, even though an unrelated criminal justice reform ballot measure threatens to mitigate its effects.
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The Indiana Supreme Court on Monday suspended the law license of Republican Attorney General Curtis Hill for 30 days after finding he committed acts of battery against several women.
Read moreA Pennsylvania appeals court ruled that a trial court improperly denied Philadelphia electrical union leader John J. “Johnny Doc” Dougherty’s motion to stay a civil action brought by an electric contractor who alleges Dougherty engaged in battery, intentional interference with contractual relations and civil conspiracy while attempting to persuade him to join the union.
Read moreA man convicted of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon is entitled to a new immunity hearing because the trial court failed to apply a 2017 amendment to Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” statute, the court of appeals ruled. The amendment shifts the burden of proof from the defendant to the state.
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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 moreAn appeals court in New Mexico ruled that a woman who pointed a taser at a police officer and grabbed his wrist while her son was being arrested was improperly convicted of battery upon a police officer. The woman was entitled to a “defense of another instruction” against the use of excessive force directed at her son.
Read moreA 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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The Seventh Circuit on Thursday upheld a $7.1 million judgment against rap artist The Game for sexually battering a contestant on his VH1 dating show, slamming his “deeply reprehensible” conduct.
Read moreProsecutors dropped a case Wednesday accusing Kevin Spacey of groping a young man at a resort island bar in 2016 after the accuser refused to testify about a missing cellphone the defense says contains information supporting the actor’s claims of innocence.
Read moreA former Republican candidate for the New York Senate who was sentenced to prison two years ago in an apartment-rental scam claims in a lawsuit filed Friday that he was forced to strip naked and undergo a body-cavity search as punishment for complaining about inadequate medical treatment.
Read moreAs his criminal sexual assault trial looms, Kevin Spacey is now facing civil claims from a man who says the disgraced actor groped him in a Nantucket bar three years ago.
Read moreAttorneys for President Donald Trump argued before a federal judge Wednesday for the dismissal of a lawsuit from a former campaign staffer claiming Trump forcibly kissed her before a 2016 rally in Florida.
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