05.10.08
Posted in Discrimination at 9:04 am by kevin
The U. S. Secret Service, long charged with protecting presidents, vice-president and their families has been hit with a racial discrimination lawsuit. According to the employment discrimination lawsuit, black agents have been passed over for promotions and have been subjected to racial epithets both verbally and in email form.
According to the employees filing the case, supervisors regularly use racial slurs when talking about criminal suspects or black leaders of foreign countries. Last month a noose was found by one of the black employees inside the Secret Service training center. The employee who tied the noose has been placed on administrative leave.
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04.17.08
Posted in Wrongful Death at 3:23 pm by kevin
There is a wrongful death lawsuit against ex-Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada that has been consolidated this week in Maryland. Also implicated in the case brought forth by 10 Bolivians living in the U. S. is ex-defense minister Jose Carlos Sanchez Berzain.
Both ex-President and ex-defense minister fled to the United States seeking asylum. The plaintiffs’ lawyers are claiming that in 2003, the defendants took inappropriate governmental action that resulted in the killing of 67 Bolivians and that the defendants put themselves under the jurisdiction of U. S. law by fleeing to this country.
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01.29.08
Posted in Products Liability at 11:24 am by kevin
In Greenwich, Connecticut, parents of a 6-year-old boy have filed a lawsuit against the pool manufacturer, Shoreline Pools and the city in regard to a fatal drowning. According to the lawsuit, the boy was trapped by the water intake at the deep end of the pool and could not set himself free, nor the father who tried to free his son.
The child was eventually freed when the mother raced to cut power to the entire facility. The parents tried CPR but were unsuccessful in reviving their child. Over the past 20 years there have been 48 reported fatalities from swimming pool drain entrapments.
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01.15.08
Posted in Abuse at 5:06 pm by kevin
The Catholic priest sexual abuse scandal continues, at least in Green Bay as a person named John Doe 119 has filed a lawsuit against a former priest and the diocese. According to the lawsuit, ex-priest John Patrick Feeney is named as the offender and the Green Bay Diocese is named as covering up the criminal behavior of the priest.
The lawsuit states that the Green Bay Diocese transferred a known child sexual predator to the Las Vegas diocese where the sexual abuse took place on a 13-year-old boy in 1984. The lawsuit states the church failed to protect its parishioners after it was discovered that Father Feeney had a diagnosable and untreatable sexual disorder.
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01.10.08
Posted in Police Misconduct at 4:44 pm by kevin
Georgia prisoners have filed a class-action lawsuit against corrections officers for allegedly beating and torturing the inmates. The lawsuit tells a story of routine beatings of restrained inmates along with deprivation of food and water throughout the state.
The charges also allege that over 40 guards sought to cover up the beatings by denying photographs of the affected inmates and denying visits with family members. The suit says guards used nightsticks, combat boots and special “beating gloves” to attack inmates.
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01.03.08
Posted in Environmental, Wrongful Death at 12:22 pm by kevin
Approximately 90 New York residents have filed a toxic tort lawsuit against IBM that they say caused birth defects in infants and cancer in adults. The lawsuit claims a toxic plume of chemicals including trichloroethylene was released from an IBM plant into the soil, groundwater and air.
According to the seven law firms representing the clients, the toxic chemicals caused personal injury and wrongful death to family of the plaintiffs. One of the law firms included in the case is Masry & Vititoe made famous by the movie “Erin Brockovich.”
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12.29.07
Posted in Frivolous Lawsuits at 8:11 am by kevin
In 2003, Walter Rich died in the infamous Station Nightclub fire in Boston, which took 100 other lives. But, this hasn’t stopped an old friend, Brian Sullivan from suing him. While at Rich’s home, Sullivan tripped over a 55-gallon drum buried in the garage floor. The fall caused Sullivan to tear his right rotator cuff, which required medical attention.
The judge in the case ordered that Walter Rich’s duty of care towards Sullivan and all other individuals ended upon his death. This case has set a precedent in the state, oddly enough, limiting the liability a person may incur only to the time in which they are living.
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12.20.07
Posted in Negligence at 4:08 pm by kevin
While skiing, William Rothstein suffered internal injuries after he hit a poorly marked retaining wall. Rothstein sued the ski facility Snowbird Corporation citing negligence in failing to properly mark the railroad ties that were stacked as a barrier.
The lower court ruled in favor of Snowbird, saying that Rothstein had assumed the inherent risk of skiing and signed two waivers stating he was aware of the risks. The Utah Supreme Court overruled the lower court’s decision, however, restoring the lawsuit and clarifying state law as it pertains to negligence.
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12.12.07
Posted in Wrongful Death at 6:49 pm by kevin
The daughter of deceased door-to-door surveyor, Summer Shipp has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company her mother worked for. Brandy Shipp has stated that marketing research firm GfK NOP, Roper ASW did not do enough to protect her mother from the perils of door-to-door marketing.
The lawsuit says the marketing firm was negligent in several areas including not checking assigned areas for sexual predators and not giving employees equipment to protect themselves. After missing for three years, the remains of Summer Shipp were found in Jackson County, Missouri in October this year.
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12.05.07
Posted in Negligence, Products Liability at 4:15 pm by kevin
Actor Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberley Buffington are suing Baxter Healthcare Corporation for $50,000 is damages. The lawsuit alleges negligence in having similar labels for 10-unit and 10,000-unit vials of heparin.
Twins Zoe Grace and Thomas Boone were given accident overdoses of the drug, used as a blood thinner at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles last month. Cedars-Sinai has since apologized for the preventable medication error.
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