The reality of frivolous lawsuits is that they rarely yield the desired results of the plaintiff, and a judge in Ohio found a clever way to dismiss one such case last week. Franklin County Judge David E. Cain wrote a legally-themed poem to dismiss a $2 million lawsuit filed by inmate Darek Lathan, who soiled his […]
Fox News' Harris Faulkner launched a lawsuit against toy company Hasbro, Inc. over a doll that bore her name and supposed likeness.
We’ve already heard enough about driving while Black, racial profiling and stop and frisk. But does discrimination even extend to shopping while Black? Indeed it…
A Los Angeles jury “hates these blurred lines” too. It decided that Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke owe the estate of singer/songwriter Marvin Gaye $7.3 million…
Colleges can earn an unending amount of profits from their student athletes long after they stop playing game, via video games, jersey sales, TV broadcasts,…
New York will pay $3.5 million to a mother whose son died when two prison aides violently restrained him at the former Tryon Boys Residential Center in Fulton County, NY in 2006. SEE ALSO: Teen Commits Suicide By Piranha According to the lawsuit, Darryl Thompson stopped breathing and died shortly after prison workers failed to respond to his […]
A Manhattan Supreme Court Justice rejected Beyonce Knowles request to toss out a $100 million lawsuit against her by a video game maker who alleges the superstar singer abandoned its project to make a dance videogame. SEE ALSO: Biggest Villains of 2011 The suit, filed in April, accuses Knowles of a ““bad faith breach of […]
SACRAMENTO-Medro Johnson, African American employee of Sears Home Improvement Products in Natomas, California was awarded $52 million over racial harassment. A co-worked of Johnson’s had said he was Johnson’s “masta” at a company picnic. NYU Pays Worker $210K After Boss Called Him “Monkey, Gorilla” Black Man Suing Burger King Because Employee Spit In Food SacBee […]
NEW YORK — Officer Daniel Hernandez is suing the NYPD for denying him overtime after he shot and paralyzed Ahmed Evans who is suing Hernandez over the shooting. The New York Daily News reports: Officer Daniel Hernandez claims that as a result of being kept off the street since July 2008, he’s been “damaged in […]
NEW YORK — Conservative groups filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court that challenges the legality of the state’s same-sex marriage law. Led by the New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedom (NYCF), the lawsuit seeks an injunction on the Marriage Equality Act, claiming that open meeting laws were violated, campaign contributions were promised, and […]
High end clothing company, Gucci is being sued by a former employee, Josephine Robinson, for discriminating against pop star, Rihanna because she is Caribbean. Vogue reports: “When Sherwood discovered that Rihanna was from a Caribbean island, he told Robinson to ‘tax the hell out of her’ and find a way to allow Gucci to withhold […]
