A California federal judge ruled against major social media platforms on Tuesday in their effort to dismiss a case brought by concerned parents, advocacy groups and school districts against the social media... Read more »
A federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois against the state’s Franklin County Juvenile Detention Center claims that the center violated youths’ constitutional rights by subjecting them to... Read more »
A Philadelphia man who was wrongfully convicted of the 1988 slaying of 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn, and later exonerated after spending 28 years in prison, has agreed to a $9.1 million settlement... Read more »
A class action lawsuit involving nearly a dozen named prisoners at Waupun Correctional Institution in Wisconsin alleges that prison officials have not adequately provided proper health care to prisoners amid an ongoing... Read more »
Two former cadets at Washington’s police academy have filed a lawsuit alleging they and several other female colleagues endured months of sexual harassment by their instructor, Mike Carter reports for the Seattle... Read more »
The New York attorney general filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing three major cryptocurrency players of lying to investors and concealing losses in a $1 billion fraud scheme, Ephrat Livni reports for the... Read more »
The US government announced on Monday that it will settle a 2018 class-action lawsuit that challenged the Trump administration’s family separation practice at the US-Mexico border. The parties filed a joint petition... Read more »
Five detainees at the Washington County Detention Center in Arkansas have accepted a settlement offer after suing the detention center, its doctor, and a former Washington County sheriff for allegedly giving them... Read more »
The American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER), a group founded by prominent anti-affirmative action activist Edward Blum, agreed on Wednesday to drop their lawsuit challenging law firm Perkins Cole’s diversity fellowship program.... Read more »
Fifty sexual abuse survivors have opened a lawsuit against the Maryland government, alleging rampant sexual abuse of young people in six of the states juvenile justice facilities over five decades, Erin Cox... Read more »