Blog Posts in March, 2011
Posted on Mar 24, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
FORT LAUDERDALE — A Broward woman claims her counselor at the Henderson Mental Health Center forced her to have sex with him, or he would make sure she lost custody of her child, according to a ...
Continue reading "Lawsuit claims counselor forced South Florida woman to have sex to keep son" »
Posted on Mar 18, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
Damages sought over ‘40s experiment to test penicillin’s effectiveness Attorneys for seven Guatemalan nationals are suing top U.S. public health officials, accusing them of ...
Continue reading "Suit says Guatemalans purposely infected with syphilis" »
Posted on Mar 18, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
Damages sought over ‘40s experiment to test penicillin’s effectiveness Attorneys for seven Guatemalan nationals are suing top U.S. public health officials, accusing them of ...
Continue reading "Suit says Guatemalans purposely infected with syphilis" »
Posted on Mar 17, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A former Lower Merion physics teacher who was fired in January for allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with a student years before has sued his accuser in federal court for slander and ...
Continue reading "Ex-physics teacher sues woman whose complaint cost him his job, alleging it was revenge for his ending their relationship" »
Posted on Mar 17, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
OAKLAND, Calif.—The city of Oakland has agreed to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit by a football fan whose arm was broken during a police crackdown at an Oakland Raiders game. Raymond Castillo ...
Continue reading "Oakland to pay $400K over 49ers fan's broken arm" »
Posted on Mar 16, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
SAN FRANCISCO—The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the state of California alleging that a Sikh inmate who refused to trim his beard for religious reasons was unfairly disciplined. ...
Continue reading "Feds sue Calif. over Sikh inmate beard punishment" »
Posted on Mar 16, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A Clarion County incident in which a gasoline-soaked man burst into flames and died, allegedly after being zapped with a Taser, is the subject of a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday against the ...
Continue reading "Federal lawsuit filed against state police over Taser incident" »
Posted on Mar 10, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
The National Labor Relations Board and an ambulance services company have settled a complaint about the firing of a woman who had criticized her supervisor on Facebook. The board's Hartford, Conn., ...
Continue reading "Settlement reached in Facebook-related firing of medical technician" »
Posted on Mar 10, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
The City of New York has agreed to pay over half a million dollars to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a South Carolina man who was killed while in custody on Rikers Island in ...
Continue reading "City Settles Suit in Death of an Inmate" »
Posted on Mar 9, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A woman is suing uptown's Omni Hotel, saying a bartender there bought her a drink that made her dizzy, then forced his way into her hotel room and raped her. The suit, filed Monday, names several ...
Continue reading "Lawsuit: Uptown hotel barman raped female patron" »
Posted on Mar 2, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
No one disputes that Daniel Pham threatened police with a knife in his hand. But San Jose police should have known he was mentally ill and diffused the situation instead of killing him in a barrage of ...
Continue reading "Wrongful death suit filed in San Jose police shooting of mentally ill man" »