California October 12 2019 A lawsuit accusing Amazon of cheating warehouse workers by not paying them while they go through security checks — a case considered dead after a U.S. Supreme Court decision almost five years ago — can now proceed in a state court. The Supreme Court on Monday, the first day of its […]
Los Angeles CA October 6 2019 A security guard is suing his former employer, saying he was forced to resign from his job at a Wilshire District high-rise because his company would not accommodate his request to have Friday night and Saturday off to worship as a Seventh-day Adventist. Luis Lomeli’s Los Angeles Superior Court […]
Chicago IL October 4 2019 A jury awarded $4.8 million to the mother of a man who was fatally shot by a security guard at a Chicago Housing Authority complex in 2016. Ulisa Howell-Darby, mother and independent administrator of the estate of Eric Knox, sued Kates Detective & Security Services Agency in 2017 for the […]
Hillsborough County FLSept 25 2019 PREMISES LIABILITY HILLSBOROUGH CIRCUIT COURT A jury awarded $248,500 to a patron who suffered a fractured leg after bouncers ejected him from a Tampa bar. Michael Pena, then 35, was ejected from the Blue Martini Lounge on Sept. 4, 2013. He claimed the bouncers either kicked him in the leg […]
Wheaton ILL September 21 2019 Four Wheaton College students who were repeatedly stopped from open-air preaching and passing out evangelism literature in Millennium Park are suing the city for allegedly violating their First Amendment rights. The students — all members of Wheaton College’s Chicago Evangelism Team, an outreach ministry sponsored by the college’s Office of […]
ORANGE, Calif. September 16 2019 The family of a student with special needs who died on a Orange County high school campus filed a lawsuit Friday against the school district. Emmanuel Perez, 15, died Monday from injuries sustained after crashing a security guard’s golf cart on the El Modena High School campus in the city of […]
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. September 11 2019— Invictus Security, a private security firm previously tapped by the School District of Palm Beach County to train security guards at charter schools in the county, has filed a lawsuit against the district for breach of contract. Invictus says the district owes the company more than $97,000 for […]
Baltimore MD Sept 5 2019 Baltimore faces legal claims after a city convention center security guard was convicted of secretly watching participants in a youth dance competition in a changing area last year. The case was not made public at the time, but the city is now dealing with fallout from the incident — including an […]
Palm Beach FL August 31 2019 Palm Beach County schools will sue a Boynton Beach security firm to get money back for what the Sheriff’s Office has called the botched training of charter school security guards. The School Board voted unanimously Wednesday to file a lawsuit against the company, Invictus Security, for what Sheriff Ric […]
EVANSTON, Ill. Aug 23 2019 The City of Evanston and the Evanston Township High School District were facing a lawsuit Tuesday night, after two security guards allegedly had sex with students. A recent student at Evanston Township claimed the guards had sex with her dozens of times, sometimes at the school. Her attorney said there were […]