‘She Just Had a Cough’: Teen’s Covid-19 Death Shakes France
A week ago, 16-year-old Julie came down with a slight cough. On Wednesday, she became France’s youngest Covid-19 fatality, shaking a nation hit by a spiraling health crisis.
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Pledge of Allegiance
A federal court in Texas ruled that a former high school student may pursue her compelled speech claim against her sociology teacher who allegedly tried to force her to transcribe the Pledge of Allegiance and compared people who abstain from saying the pledge to “Soviet communists, supporters of Sharia, and people who condone pedophilia.”
Read moreGreta Thunberg Reports Recovery From What Was Likely Covid-19
Self-isolating for the better part of the month, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg called it “extremely likely” Tuesday that she had contracted the new coronavirus during a trip to central Europe.
Read moreA Bad Idea
A mother sued Las Cruces, N.M., its Police Department and school resource Officer Francisco Estrada, claiming Estrada shot his pistol at a target on the wall of his office, knowing the principal’s office was on the other side, and the bullet missed her son’s ear by inches, terrifying him and costing him his hearing in that ear.
Read morePolitical T-Shirt
A student who claims he was required to wear a T-shirt with a state representative’s name on it while on a field trip to the Tennessee State Capitol in violation of his constitutional right not to engage in political speech may pursue his claims against the Wayne County School System, his high school principal and the representative, a federal court in the state ruled.
Read moreFootball Coach
An 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.
Read moreSchool Superintendent
A Missouri woman claims in a federal complaint that the former superintendent of Lone Jack C-6 School District “is a sexual predator who serially preyed on female students, including” herself when she was a minor, and that the school board president and high school principal “actively assisted” the superintendent’s cover-up.
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Supreme Court Takes Up Teen’s Life-Without-Parole Case
Taking up the case of a 15-year-old who killed his grandfather, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether a juvenile must be ruled “permanently incorrigible” to get a life sentence without parole.
Read moreSexual Assault Damages
The Second Circuit upheld $21.7 million in damages against the orthodox Jewish high school and its rabbi administrator, finding the award to a sexual assault victim was “not excessive” as a matter of law.
Read moreAttorney Sentenced
San Diego attorney William David Turley, 61, was sentenced Monday to 46 months in federal prison for “enticing a female to engage in prostitution,” including an underage victim, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Monday.
Read moreSue the School
A mother sued Yakima County School District No. 7 for negligence, claiming it sent her son home from his high school without notifying her, “for allegedly wearing red gang colors,” and he was shot to death in a drive-by while walking home, in Yakima County Court.
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24 Babies, Pregnant Teens Freed From Nigeria ‘Baby Factory’
Nigerian police have rescued 24 babies and four expectant mothers from an illegal maternity home in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt, a spokesman said Thursday.
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39 States Will Investigate Juul’s Marketing to Teens
A coalition of 39 states will look into the marketing and sales of vaping products by Juul Labs, including whether the company targeted youths and made misleading claims about nicotine content in its devices, officials said Tuesday.
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Virginia Law Spurs Dismissal of Appeal in DC Sniper Case
Virginia’s attorney general has agreed to dismiss an appeal of the life sentence for the then-teenage accomplice in the 2002 D.C. sniper shootings following the passage of a state law updating sentencing rules.
Read morePolice Killing
The family of the late Paul Rea, who was 18, claim L.A. County sheriff’s Office Hector Saavedra-Soto shot him to death, in the back, as Rea ran away from him after a traffic stop, then harassed his family with co-defendant Office Argelia Huerta, and that both are members of a “deputy gang” called the Banditos, in federal court.
Read moreTased at School
A family may pursue excessive force claims against a school security guard who confronted a 14-year-old student as he was attempting to leave school and tased him in the abdomen. The student was not acting violently but merely attempted to walk away from the guard.
Read morePublic Records
The Seattle Times sued the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office for 521 pages of its investigation of alleged sexual assaults by at least six members of the 2018 state champion Eastside Catholic High School football team, in King County Court.
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US Forces Venezuelan Teen, but Not Her Dad, Into Mexico
A Venezuelan teenager has been forced back to Mexico by U.S. government authorities who denied her claims that she was fleeing political repression and violence — after they accepted the same claims from her father.
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Jane Does 1-10 filed a federal class action against Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard and two of his companies, claiming he drugged and sexually assaulted them and others while they were underage.
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