A former inmate who was freed from prison has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Tulsa and a convicted police officer, claiming they fabricated a search warrant and staged “bogus and sham charges” against him. It’s at least …
A federal lawsuit has been filed in Wyoming’s only documented death during last year’s listeria outbreak from contaminated cantaloupe from southern Colorado. The Casper Star Tribune reports Jack Corsi’s family filed the lawsuit Thursday. The lawsuit claims the Alpine resident …
Chattanooga, Tenn., city officials agreed to pay $33,500 to end an appeal of a federal lawsuit seeking damages in a fatal shooting when six police officers fired 59 times at an armed man on his porch. City Attorney Mike McMahan …
A Kihei couple is suing the Maui Police Department alleging officers raided their home while executing a search warrant on the wrong address. The Maui News reports that April and Norman Freeland filed the lawsuit in federal court in Honolulu …
The family of a British commodities trader who died while partying in Las Vegas will accept $350,000 to end a federal lawsuit stemming from the disappearance of the man’s internal organs after an autopsy and before his body was returned …
Utah’s Salt Lake County has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family of a 19-year-old Magna man who starved to death while in the county jail earlier this year. The dollar amount and other terms of the …
The city of New Orleans has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that accused police of ignoring a woman’s complaint that her ex-husband threatened her two weeks before he killed her and a friend, a spokesman for …
A federal lawsuit filed over the death of a western Pennsylvania man in a jail cell after his family alleged he was denied proper medical treatment has been settled for $500,000. The agreement contains no admission of wrongdoing by Fayette …
The organization in charge of the Internet’s address system is taking over a database widely used by computers and websites to keep track of time zones around the world. The transition to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, …