Justice Dept. plans to sue Arizona sheriff Arpaio
PHOENIX (AP) - Federal authorities have said they plan to sue Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office over allegations of civil rights violations, including the racial profiling of Latinos...
Beastie Boys sued for illegal sampling
Tuf America claims the rap trio illegally sampled two of Trouble Funk's songs, and used portions of them to compose four songs, two on their debut album Licensed To Ill, and two on Paul's Boutique...
A widower’s dangerous attack on birth control
OPINION - Mike Yard, comedian and widower of 36-year-old plus-size model/actress, Mia Amber Davis, is reportedly suing his late wife's obstetrician-gynecologist for prescribing her birth control pills...
Mia Amber Davis' widow sues her doctors
CLUTCH - Nearly a year after plus size model and actress Mia Amber Davis suddenly passed away, her widower, Michael Yard, filed a lawsuit against her doctors...
Lawsuit brings attention to 'The Bachelor' and race
NEW YORK (AP) - The nearly all-white racial makeup of the series (and its spinoff, 'The Bachelorette') has simmered as an issue for years...
Iowa judge rejects theory of 'implicit bias'
(AP) - A judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday that claimed Iowa's state government systemically discriminated against black job applicants by allowing subtle racial bias to creep into virtually every hiring and promotion decision...
Trailer companies to pay $14.8M in FEMA settlement
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Nearly two dozen companies that manufactured government-issued trailers for storm victims after Hurricane Katrina have agreed to pay $14.8 million...
'Bachelor' diversity lawsuit: Dumb or long overdue?
OPINION - For some reason 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette' producers are stuck in some strange bizarro world of all white everything...
Man sues hospital, says childhood circumcision 'robbed' him
SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP) - A prison inmate is suing the hospital where he was circumcised as a newborn, saying he only recently became aware that he'd undergone the procedure and that it robbed him of his sexual prowess...
Dismissed Sean Bell cop plans legal action
Detective Gescard Isnora, one of the NYPD officers who shot and killed the unarmed Sean Bell, plans to take legal action after being fired last Friday...
