An Ohio police officer accused of shooting to death a pregnant Black mother two years ago was not trained or supervised properly, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday against the police chief and the township that employed him. The estate of Ta’Kiya Young sued Blendon Township and its police chief over her August 2023…
A former stylist for Sean “Diddy” Combs — who testified against the disgraced music mogul in his federal criminal trial earlier this year — filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing Combs of sexual abuse and violence while he was in Combs’ employ. The 37-page lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf of Deonte…
A Missouri woman was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in federal prison for scheming to defraud Elvis Presley’s family by trying to auction off his Graceland home and property before a judge halted the brazen foreclosure sale. U.S. District Judge John T. Fowlkes Jr. sentenced Lisa Jeanine Findley in federal court in Memphis…
A federal judge in Florida has thrown out President Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, citing its excessive length, but giving his attorneys a chance to file a shorter, amended version of the complaint within a month. In the ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Steven Merryday said the original 85-page complaint was “decidedly…
The electric vehicle company Tesla, led by billionaire Elon Musk, is reportedly being sued for favouring H1-B visa holders over Americans for employment in the company. According to the lawsuit, Tesla hires H1-B visa holders so it can pay them less. The complainant has accused Tesla of being dependent on the H-1B visa holders for…
Jacksonville law enforcement officers violated the civil rights of a 22-year-old Black college student when they pulled him from his car and beat him during a traffic stop, according to a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Jacksonville on Wednesday. A video showing a Jacksonville Sheriff’s officer punching and dragging William McNeil from his car…
In a major victory for the Donald Trump administration, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, that 19 mostly Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C., could not pursue their lawsuit challenging the dismissal of nearly 25,000 recently hired federal employees. The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, held that the states lacked standing…
Anthropic, which operates the Claude artificial intelligence app, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who alleged the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot. The company has agreed to pay authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books covered by the…
A federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people’s smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions. The verdict reached Wednesday in San Francisco federal court followed a more than two-week trial in a class-action case covering about 98 million smartphones operating in the United States between July 1,…
New York’s attorney general moved Thursday to have the state’s highest court reinstate President Trump’s staggering civil fraud penalty, appealing a lower-court decision that slashed the potential half-billion-dollar fine to $0. Attorney General Letitia James’ office filed a notice of appeal with the state’s Court of Appeals, seeking to reverse the mid-level Appellate Division’s ruling…