Utilities in California will be able to bill customers to help pay for legal settlements associated with the catastrophic wildfires in 2017, thanks to Governor Jerry Brown’s signature on a hotly contested bill Friday.
Read moreWith a deadly wildfire churning through dry foothills outside Yosemite National Park, California Gov. Jerry Brown wants sweeping changes that could help utilities responsible for starting fires dodge financial penalties.
Read moreThe California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that colleges owe their students safety and protection from foreseeable violence in the classroom, reversing an appeals court’s finding that UCLA did not have a duty to protect a student who was attacked with a knife by a classmate in a chemistry lab.
Read moreRelatives of three people killed in the 2015 terror attack in San Bernardino, California, lobbied a federal judge Monday for another chance at a lawsuit that lays some of the blame for the attack on the county, the federal government and others.
Read moreParents claim their 3-year-old toddler fell into an open septic tank in a public park in Florida and drowned in it.
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A federal judge dismissed a second lawsuit accusing Black Lives Matter and several of the movement’s leaders of inciting violence that culminated in a gunman’s deadly attack on Louisiana police officers last year.
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A Minnesota man must face a claim that he is responsible for the near-drowning of his 4-year-old great nephew, the state’s highest court ruled, reversing a lower court’s decision that the boy should have known it was too dangerous to swim alone.
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The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that an apology by a medical provider cannot be used as evidence in a civil lawsuit, even if the statement admits fault.
Read moreSocial service organizations that haven’t been paid in over a year due to the Illinois budget crisis cannot sue Gov. Bruce Rauner for repeatedly vetoing budget legislation, a state appeals court ruled.
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The wife and son of a Missouri plant worker who died of cancer claim in court that the parts manufacturing plant is responsible for poisoning him and contaminating an entire community.
Read moreAn insurer refuses to cover a Colorado-based marijuana candy company for selling the “Karma Kandy Orange Ginger” under whose influence a man supposedly became psychotic and murdered his wife.
Read morePresident Donald Trump asked a federal judge Friday to dismiss two supporters’ counterclaims that he inspired them to attack three protesters at a campaign rally.
Read moreA Republican lawmaker’s plan to protect children from being trafficked for sex over the internet drew opposition from sex worker advocates Monday.
Read moreIn a federal complaint against President Donald Trump, a K Street attorney wants “to compel compliance by the president with the financial disclosure requirements of the Ethics in Government Act,” specifically, how much he owes and to whom.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit heard arguments Tuesday over whether Detroit and one of its suburbs should be held liable for a 2009 murder-suicide involving a homicide investigator and his wife, also a police officer.
Read moreA federal judge refused to give Houston permission to appeal his order that it may have established a “culture of recklessness” by finding that all police shootings during a four-year period were justified.
Read moreBest Buy had no legal duty to prevent an intoxicated employee from using his own vehicle to leave work, before he crashed into a median and a truck, a Tennessee appeals court ruled.
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