Pierce College student’s campus free speech fight continues with judge’s OK
Pierce College. File photo: Cbl62 at English Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia CommonsA judge has...
View ArticleLA sues Silver Lake Car Wash for allegedly ripping-off worker’s wages
The Silver Lake Car Wash has been sued by the Los Angeles City Attorneys Office for various wage and worker’s rights abuses. Photo from Pixabay. Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer Thursday announced...
View ArticleDrugged Malibu rehab patient wakes up to learn he’s gay sex victim of another...
Malibu coast. Photo via Wikimedia Commons A former patient at a Malibu-based rehabilitation center sued the facility Thursday, alleging he was sexually assaulted in 2017 by another patient while the...
View ArticleParents sue school district for tragic death of their special needs son: No...
An example of a school classroom. By Malate269 (Own work) [Attribution], via Wikimedia CommonsThe parents of an 8-year-old special-needs child are suing the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District,...
View ArticleLAPD captain alleges she was shunned, assigned to the Creek Fire in...
LAPD Captain Lillian L. Carranza. Photo from Los Angeles Police Department. A veteran Los Angeles police captain sued the city Friday, alleging she suffered a backlash that’s hampering her career...
View ArticleFilm company that allegedly double-crossed Kevin Costner given more time to...
Kevin Costner, on the red carpet for the premiere of the Oscar-nominated film, “Hidden Figures.” By NASA/Joel Kowsky [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsA judge Tuesday gave a film production company...
View ArticleGay couple’s twin babies battle immigration: One’s a US citizen, other isn’t
Photo via Pixabay. This story has it all – a same-sex couple, a court battle over immigration, baby twins and even a tie to the federal government shutdown at the start of the week. Lawyers for a Los...
View ArticleJames Gandolfini’s costume worn in ‘Sopranos’ final episode center of LA lawsuit
The late James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano in “The Sopranos.” Photo: HBO A Brea man is suing an auction house for allegedly misrepresenting a listing for a costume worn by the late James Gandolfini in...
View ArticleHip-hop mogul Russell Simmons sued for allegedly raping LA woman: $5 million?
Russell Simmons at the world premiere of Mansome at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. Photo by David Shankbone (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia...
View ArticleCamp ranger denied $1M reward for tracking rogue ex-LAPD cop Christopher Dorner
Christopher Dorner. Photo via Wikimedia A state appellate court panel Monday unanimously upheld a judge’s dismissal of all of the claims filed against several entities and a law firm by a camp ranger...
View ArticleUCLA med school director forced out? Age, gender discrimination lawsuit...
UCLA. MyNewsLA.com photo by John Schreiber. A former UCLA physician who alleges she was forced out of her job as director of the medical school’s lymphoma program because a male-dominated...
View ArticleOwners of killer dogs sued by dead victim’s widow: Eight more attacked?
Photo from Pixabay. The widow of a 76-year-old man, who died three weeks after being attacked by two pit bulls in Lincoln Heights while walking his Pomeranian nearly a year ago, is suing the animal’s...
View ArticleWrongful death suit filed against Jim Carrey dropped by late girlfriend’s...
Jim Carrey. Photo via Wikimedia Commons A consolidated wrongful death suit filed against Jim Carrey by the estranged husband and mother of his late girlfriend has been dropped. Carrey also filed court...
View ArticleSprint employee put sex assault, masturbation pics into customer’s account?...
A person touching an iPhone’s screen. Photo from Pixabay. A Sprint customer is suing the telecommunications company, alleging an employee at a store in Granada Hills uploaded more than 100 sexually...
View ArticleFormer UCLA doctor alleges salary gap, gender harassment in court testimony
A view of the UCLA campus. Photo by John Schreiber. A former UCLA physician who says she was forced out of her job as director of the medical school’s lymphoma program because a male-dominated...
View ArticleParents allege teen son shot 19 times by LAPD ‘without provocation,’ lawsuit...
Photo by John Schreiber The parents of a 16-year-old boy shot and killed by Los Angeles police in Boyle Heights in 2016 sued the city and two officers Monday, saying their son was shot 19 times without...
View ArticleDisabled woman suing LA admits she punched a cop, but alleges ‘he started it!’
An example of a man extending a fist. Photo from Pixabay. A disabled woman suing the city of Los Angeles for alleged civil rights violations conceded Tuesday that she slugged an officer during a...
View Article‘Savage’ water buffalo at Malibu winery attacks woman: Lawsuit!
A woman is suing Malibu Wines for injuries she says she sustained in an attack by a water buffalo. Photo from Pixabay. A woman is suing Malibu Wines for injuries she says she received after she was...
View ArticleBill Paxton’s family sues Cedars-Sinai: Wrongful death lawsuit alleges...
Bill Paxton in 2014. Photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was sued for wrongful death and negligence Friday by family members of Bill Paxton, who died in 2017....
View ArticleOrange County prosecutor’s retaliation lawsuit tossed, but she can try again
Photo from Pixabay. A federal judge Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a veteran Orange County prosecutor against her boss, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, and the county alleging she became the...
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