The 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.
Read moreA five-hour bus trip to bring immigrant detainees from Northern California to Bakersfield turned into a day-long ordeal, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday accusing a Homeland Security contractor of using a windowless van to transport the immigrants in suffocating heat that caused them to vomit and faint.
Read moreU.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasted his colleagues Monday for refusing to hear a tort case brought against the United States by the husband of a Navy lieutenant who died during childbirth at a naval hospital.
Read moreCalling his “life changed forever,” a Polish immigrant who says he was clobbered in broad daylight by Alec Baldwin has sued the actor for assault, battery and slander.
Read moreA federal judge on Monday kept alive several claims brought by a group of protesters in Washington who were beaten in May 2017 by security officials and supporters of Turkish President Recep Erdogan during his visit with President Donald Trump.
Read moreA former campaign worker for President Donald Trump filed a federal lawsuit Monday claiming he kissed her without her consent before a 2016 campaign rally in Florida.
Read moreAn Ohio woman claims her former employer hired as its office manager a twice-convicted child molester who sexually assaulted her son during a Thanksgiving party and attacked her at home after she reported him to police.
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