Iron Maiden fan aflame in fall into giant concert bonfire: Lawsuit!
Iron Maiden. Photo: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Promoter Live Nation has been sued in Los Angeles by a man who says he was severely burned by flames from a bonfire started by...
View ArticleHugs, kisses or be fired? Sex harassment lawsuit hits Original Mike’s in...
An example of a restaurant hamburger. Photo from Pixabay. An Orange County Superior Court judge Friday indicated he would deny a motion to dismiss sexual harassment claims filed by five former...
View ArticleEx-white supremacist killed himself in LA jail: Mom settles lawsuit
Jail cells. Photo via Pixabay A woman settled her lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles that alleged officers at the Los Angeles Police Department Metropolitan Detention Center were negligent in the...
View ArticleGrieving dead daughter’s parents sue Redondo Beach: Bus kills bike rider
Ciara Smith. Photo: GoFundMe The distraught parents of a freckle-faced 13-year-old girl who was killed by a Metro bus while riding her bicycle in Redondo Beach have sued the transit agency, the bus...
View ArticleThe Weinstein Company slapped with lawsuit: Alleged ‘aiding and abetting’...
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View ArticleUSC football win in court, not on field: Fired booze coach lawsuit tossed
Steve Sarkisian at a USC press conference. File photo courtesy of OnSceneTV USC suffered a humiliating defeat on the gridiron at the hands of Notre Dame this weekend, but the Trojans scored a big...
View ArticleKaty Perry, Archdiocese get good news in battle with nuns
Katy Perry. Photo: Wikimedia Commons The Archdiocese of Los Angeles and Katy Perry won another round in court Wednesday when a judge removed the final legal obstacle to proceeding to trial in a lawsuit...
View ArticleSex, TV and football: Harassment lawsuit hits NFL Network
The wave of highly publicized sex harassment allegations in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal has come to the National Football League. A former wardrobe stylist for the NFL Network is suing...
View ArticleHalle Berry, Olivier Martinez end $5 million battle with an LAX employee
Halle Berry and her actor ex-husband, Olivier Martinez, settled with an LAX worker who alleged in a lawsuit that Martinez struck him with a child’s car seat in 2015. Attorneys for plaintiff Ronaldo...
View ArticleSex abuse victims forced to undergo psychological exams in civil lawsuit
Over the objections of their attorney, a judge ruled Thursday that two women suing two schools and a convicted sex offending teacher can be required to undergo four-hour exams by a psychologist. The...
View ArticleUSC sexual harassment allegations: Grad student files lawsuit against school,...
USC associate professor Erick Guerrero. Photo: USC A USC graduate student said Thursday an associate professor overseeing her dissertation at the university’s School of Social Work propositioned her...
View ArticleLA cop’s alleged sex with 15-year-old cadet sparks claim against city
Los Angeles Police headquarters in downtown L.A. Photo by John Schreiber. A 15-year-old girl police say was sexually abused by a former Los Angeles police officer while she was part of the department’s...
View ArticleDeadly unsafe GM cars? OC settles lawsuit over hidden defects for $14 million
A judge’s gavel. Photo via Pixabay. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office has obtained a $13.9 million settlement in a civil lawsuit against General Motors that alleged the auto maker put...
View ArticleCop’s cadet teen sex target blames LAPD for scandal: Claim filed
LAPD patch. Photo by MyNewsLA.com A 15-year-old girl police say was sexually abused by a former Los Angeles police officer while she was part of the department’s cadet program has filed a claim against...
View ArticleEstate of dead LAFD battalion chief sued
Jerome Boyd. Courtesy LAFD The city of Los Angeles and the estate of a veteran Los Angeles Fire Department battalion chief who died unexpectedly amid a medical emergency while on duty in April were...
View ArticleDeporting Dreamers ‘unlawful, immoral’: LA supports lawsuit against federal...
DACA defenders protest in Los Angeles, Sept. 1, 2017. Photo: Dream Resource Center/Twitter Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer Wednesday announced that the city filed a brief along with other...
View ArticleSex suit coming from Canadian actress in Weinstein Toronto hotel attack
Harvey Weinstein in 2010. Photo via Wikimedia Commons An unnamed Canadian actress plans to sue Harvey Weinstein and the Walt Disney Co., contending that the disgraced producer sexually assaulted her in...
View ArticleDrug firms cross tough guy Chuck Norris: You poisoned my wife!
If you’re any kind of movie villain, you avoid Hollywood tough guy Chuck Norris. But what if you make the drugs ProHance and MultiHance and give it to Norris’ wife? Chuck Norris. Photo via YouTube.com...
View ArticleFamily of mom killed in golf cart hit-and-run sues the club and LA County
Lisa Park was fatally injured in a hit and run collision at Royal Vista Golf Club. Photo from GoFundMe. https://www.gofundme.com/lisaspark The husband and two adult children of an Orange County woman...
View ArticleVenice group tries to continue lawsuit against LA for beach ‘neglect’
The Venice Beach boardwalk. Photo by John Schreiber. The Venice Stakeholders Association announced Monday that it has filed an appellate court brief in hopes of keeping alive its lawsuit that claims...
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