Category: lawsuit

Local Resident Attempts to Unseat OC Board of Education Trustee

COSTA MESA, Calif.—A local resident is requesting that an Orange County Board of Education trustee be temporarily removed following allegations that he was illegally appointed to his vacant seat in December 2021. Michael Sean Wright will appear in front of an Orange County Superior Court judge on Feb. 10 after filing a legal challenge on Jan….


Bill Cosby Likely to Avoid Testifying in Sex Assault Lawsuit

SANTA MONICA, Calif.—A Los Angeles judge on Friday appeared strongly inclined to allow Bill Cosby to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege and avoid giving a deposition in the lawsuit of a woman who alleges he sexually abused her when she was 15 in the mid-1970s. At a hearing to argue the issue, Superior Court Judge…


New York Lawsuit Challenges Voting by Non-Citizens

NEW YORK—Four black registered voters have asked the New York Supreme Court to declare “void” a New York City law that gives the right to vote in municipal elections to an estimated 800,000 foreign residents. Passed by the city council in December 2021, the amendment to the city charter allows permanent residents and persons authorized…


Google Loses Bid Against Arizona State Lawsuit Over Location Tracking

Alphabet Inc.’s Google lost its bid to end a lawsuit by the State of Arizona on Jan. 25 that alleged it deceived users in order to access their location data. The state’s lawsuit, filed by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, alleged that Google had used unfair and deceptive practices to obtain users’ location data, which it secretly…


Google Asks Judge to Dismiss Most of Texas Antitrust Lawsuit

WASHINGTON—Alphabet Inc.’s Google asked a federal judge on Friday to dismiss the majority of an antitrust lawsuit filed by Texas and other states that accused the search giant of abusing its dominance of the online advertising market. Google said in its court filing that the states failed to show that it illegally worked with Facebook,…


Student Sues High School for Rejecting Her Pro-Life Club

An Indiana High School student has filed a discrimination and libel lawsuit against her school for barring her from starting a pro-life club at the school. The high school freshman, who is a student with the Noblesville School District, located about 27 miles from Indianapolis, alleges the school has infringed upon her First Amendment right…


Airbus Faces $339 Million Class Action Suit in the Netherlands, Lawyers Say

AMSTERDAM—Lawyers who say they are representing “a hundred” institutional investors have filed a class action lawsuit against Airbus in a Dutch court, saying they suffered at least 300 million euros ($339 million) in damages as a result of company misconduct. The suit, filed by the Foundation for Investor Loss Compensation on Jan. 3 at The…


Woman Loses Fight for Frozen Embryos in Child Custody Lawsuit

A Family Court judge in Michigan late last month refused a mother’s request for custody of five to ten frozen embryos on ice at an in-vitro fertilization facility. The embryos were produced through in vitro, or outside the body, fertilization in 2015 and then frozen. The mother, Gloria Karungi, and her former boyfriend, Ronald Ejalu,…


Bid Fails to Dismiss Kobe Bryant Crash Photos Lawsuit

LOS ANGELES—Lawyers for Los Angeles County have failed to persuade a federal judge to end Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit over gruesome photos of the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe Bryant, her daughter Gianna and seven others. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter on Wednesday rejected a county motion that would have dismissed the case,…


Royal Winnipeg Ballet Agrees to $10M Settlement Over Instructor’s Photographs

WINNIPEG—A settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit against the Royal Winnipeg Ballet over allegations a former teacher and photographer took intimate photos of students and released them without their consent. Lawyers for the plaintiffs say in a release that the dance company has agreed to pay $10 million on behalf of itself and…