Lawsuit on behalf of 8 elementary schoolgirls claims LAUSD ignored...
Photo by John Schreiber. A lawsuit was filed Tuesday against Los Angeles Unified School District and a former after-school coach on behalf of eight minor girls who allege he sexually molested them. An...
View ArticleAlleged ‘child predators’ protected by LA schools? Little girls sue coach
Photo by John Schreiber. A lawsuit has been filed against the Los Angeles Unified School District and a former after-school coach on behalf of eight minor girls who allege he sexually molested them....
View ArticleSex assault by gymnastics USA doc? Woman sues
Photo via Pixabay A lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles accuses a former Team USA Gymnastics doctor of sexually assaulting a Southland woman while she was a student at Michigan State University....
View ArticleHotbed of gang violence: City sues to ban gangsters from red tennis shoes...
A hotbed of gang violence that was the site of the red tennis shoes murder was targeted Wednesday by city officials who demanded a court ban gangsters from the area and increase security. The owner...
View ArticleParamount metal-processing plant sued for alleged toxic emissions
via wikimedia. A judge Thursday declined to issue a temporary restraining order against a Paramount metal-processing plant over alleged excessive emissions of a toxic metal air pollutant identified by...
View ArticleMia Farrow, Goldie Hawn paid big bucks for Vidal Sassoon haircuts: Dead...
Photo via Wikimedia Commons. The overseer of a trust created for the benefit of a grandson of Vidal Sassoon is seeking distribution of the entire $145,000 on behalf of the heir of the late hairstylist,...
View ArticleNaked pix, sex required in fake porn auditions: ‘Director’ rape charges
Michael-Jon “Matt” Hickey. Photo via techcrunch.com A former Seattle journalist sits in a Las Vegas jail, accused of rape. Now a lawsuit emerges that alleges how he lured his victims — as a fake porn...
View ArticleJim Carrey target of suicide suit in death of woman he dated: Unrelated...
Jim Carrey. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Jim Carrey is still being sued for wrongful death in the suicide of a woman he once dated, but the dead woman’s husband won’t be in court Thursday as scheduled...
View ArticleAnti-abortion illegal videotapes? Medical research workers settle lawsuit
A clip from the videotape. Photo via http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/cmp/investigative-footage/. A settlement was reached in a lawsuit filed in which members of a medical research company...
View ArticleJustin Bieber loses round in court to Calabasas neighbors: Star’s alleged...
Justin Bieber. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Justin Bieber’s former Calabasas neighbors won a round in court Thursday when a judge ruled they can receive more than $25,000 each if they are successful in...
View ArticleSpaceX chief under oath by whistleblower in safety suit
Smoke billows from the SpaceX launch site. Reuters via NASA TV A judge ruled Friday that lawyers for a man who says he was fired by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. after blowing the whistle on...
View Article13-year-old boy sues Uber over Hollywood death of film director dad
Vasco Lucas Nunes. Photo: Cofina Media http://www.cmjornal.pt/mais-cm/obituario/detalhe/vasco-nunes-1974-2016 The son of a Portuguese cinematographer, producer and film director killed in a collision...
View ArticleUber sued by 13-year-old son of film director in dad’s Hollywood death
Vasco Lucas Nunes. Photo: Cofina Media http://www.cmjornal.pt/mais-cm/obituario/detalhe/vasco-nunes-1974-2016 The 13-year-old son of a motorcycle-riding Portuguese cinematographer, producer and film...
View ArticleNewlywed run over by lifeguard SUV in Venice Beach to receive $1.7M settlement
Los Angeles County lifeguards keep watch over the beach in Venice Beach. Photo by John Schreiber. The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to pay out $1.7 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a...
View ArticleJudge: No reason to dismiss Qunicy Jones lawsuit against Michael Jackson
Quincy Jones. Photo by Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada (Quincy Jones and the Slaight Family Music Lab) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsA judge...
View ArticleFeds target Irvine dietary supplements company: Adulterated and misbranded...
Photo by Amanda Mills/CDC. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that an Irvine company agreed to cease operations as part of a settlement of a lawsuit alleging the firm distributed...
View ArticleDid Chris Brown punch out his own ex-manager? R&B singer loses round in court
Chris Brown. Photo by Eva Rinaldi via Wikimedia Commons Chris Brown lost a round in court Thursday as he battled over technicalities in a lawsuit brought by his ex-manager who alleged the controversial...
View ArticleLyft sued by Westwood woman over allegations of driver sexual assault
Photo by John Schreiber. Lyft Inc. was sued Thursday by a woman who alleges one of the transportation company’s drivers picked her up from her workplace in the Mid-Wilshire district in 2015 and drove...
View ArticleJudge OKs single issue for ex-LAPD lawsuit vs. LA
MyNewsLA.com Photo A judge Friday pared a lawsuit filed against the city of Los Angeles by a criminalist who alleges the LAPD deliberately overlooked evidence that linked a detective to a 1986 killing....
View ArticleEx-AT&T exec fired over race discrimination? Lawsuit over termination
A former AT&T executive who was a central figure in the merger with DirecTV sued his former employer Tuesday, claiming he was fired amid racial discrimination claims by an administrative assistant...
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