Washington (AP) — The Supreme Court suggested Monday that it’s inclined to allow a bigger award of money to victims of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. No matter what the justices decide, however, it’s unlikely the victims will ever collect the full amount. The nearly […]
Texas has filed a lawsuit against California over it’s ban of official employee travel to sates with laws that they consider to be anti LGBTQ. Texas thinks California targeted them to protect the religious freedom of child welfare providers. The ban began in 2017 with other states including Alabama, North Carolina, Mississippi Kansas and Tennessee.
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed Charles Oakley’s lawsuit against executive chairman James Dolan and Madison Square Garden, stemming from the former New York Knicks forward’s ejection from a game and ensuing arrest three years ago. Judge Richard J. Sullivan ruled Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that the case “had the […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday tossed out a libel lawsuit filed by Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax against a television network he accused of slanted reporting on sexual assault allegations against him. U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga in Alexandria dismissed the lawsuit. But he declined to grant CBS’ request that the network […]
Word on the curb is that Gabrielle Union is preparing a lawsuit against her former “America’s Got Talent” boss Simon Cowell, accusing him of “endangering her life” by smoking cigarettes on set of the hit NBC competition show. According to the Daily Mail, an insider said: “Gabrielle was always cross that Simon would smoke when the cameras weren’t running. […]
Mariah Carey is accusing her former assistant of destroying key evidence that the singer believes would prove the woman attempted to blackmail her. According to court documents obtained by The Blast, Carey is making the allegations against her ex-employee, Lianna Shakhnazaryan. In 2019, Carey sued Shakhnazaryan accusing her of filming “intimate videos” of her without permission. She […]
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have fired a warning to media outlets following a paparazzi shot of Meghan taking their eight-month-old son Archie for a hike in a public park on Vancouver Island. The couple have threatened to sue outlets that invade their privacy. Lawyers for the royal couple fired off a cease and desist letter Tuesday to […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard filed a defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton on Wednesday over an interview in which Clinton appeared to call Gabbard “the favorite of the Russians.” Gabbard, a Hawaii congresswoman, said in her lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan that Clinton’s comments in a podcast last year […]
DaBaby took to Instagram to address his arrest and the charges against him following an alleged altercation with a promoter in Miami. The rapper was jailed late last week over an assault and robbery of promoter who was supposed to pay him $30,000 for a nightclub appearance at Story. When the promoter, identified by TMZ as simply Kenneth, came up […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore man is suing over a take-home paternity test he says incorrectly indicated he was the father of a 1-year-old girl. Nnanaka Nwofor wants the Ohio company that conducted the DNA test to pay $75,000 for the cost of supporting the child and her mother and the pain of learning he […]
Lifetime has set a January 2 premiere date for its sequel documentary series “Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning,” which is the follow-up to the Emmy-nominated “Surviving R. Kelly.” The new doc will air on three consecutive nights, and feature interviews with new survivors, supporters, psychologists and cultural and legal experts. But one person […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison sued Juul Labs on Wednesday, accusing the e-cigarette maker of unlawfully targeting young people with its products to get a new generation addicted to nicotine. The lawsuit filed in Hennepin County District Court in Minneapolis seeks to force Juul to stop marketing to young people; […]
