Chicago IL Jan 12 2018 A wave of class action lawsuits has been filed alleging violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), a statute aimed at regulating how companies use information based on “biometric identifiers” such as fingerprints and retina scans. Violating BIPA can be costly, so employers operating within Illinois should review their […]
COLUMBIA, Mo Jan 11 2018 – The mother of Anthony Warren’s three children is suing a Columbia Waffle House and the private security guard that shot him there on New Year’s day. Attorneys for Passion Hambright, the mother of Warren’s three minor children, filed the wrongful death lawsuit on Wednesday morning. It claims the security […]
Port Arthur TX Jan 11 2018 The family of a mentally ill Port Arthur man who died while struggling with police and security guards at a hospital filed a lawsuit Wednesday, alleging his death was caused by inadequate training of officials who shocked him multiple times with a stun gun. “I want to know how he […]
Seattle WA Jan 10 2018 Seattle will pay $220,000 to two former library security guards who said a manager kissed them both and didn’t investigate a co-worker who held one of them on his lap and spanked her. The two women, as a settlement condition, had to leave their jobs at the Central Library downtown and […]
San Diego, CA Jan 9 2018–A University of California-San Diego (UCSD) student who was hit by a vehicle when she willingly walked into an eight-lane freeway in the middle of the night during an anti-Trump march in 2016 has filed a lawsuit against the university and several other entities, blaming them for her injuries. […]
BELLEVILLE IL Jan 7 2018 – An invitee to a Brooklyn strip club alleges he was injured in an unprovoked attack by security guards. Grazino Baker filed a complaint on Dec. 21 in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Bottoms Up and John Does 1 and 2 alleging negligent hiring. According to the complaint, the […]
Reno NV Jan 5 2018 The father of a Reno man who died at the Washoe County Jail as deputies tried to free him from hog-tie restraints used by Reno police has settled part of his wrongful death lawsuit for $75,000, according to court documents obtained by the Reno Gazette-Journal. Thomas Purdy, Jr., died in 2015, […]
Yonkers NY Dec 29 2017 Security agents at Empire City Casino in Yonkers are accused in a lawsuit of illegally detaining and assaulting a New York City man. Timothy Harris of Manhattan seeks $1 million in damages in his Dec. 19 papers filed in the state Supreme Court. Harris alleged that he was verbally assaulted and […]
Atlanta GA Dec 29 2017 A woman in Georgia claims that she was kicked out of a Marriott hotel because she ‘was a non-swinger on a swingers’ floor’, according to a lawsuit she filed against the hotel chain. Hale Lewis claims in the lawsuit she filed last week in the U.S. District Court of Northern Georgia […]
Denver CO Dec 28 2017 A former member of Denver’s LGBTQ Commission says his civil rights were violated last year when a security guard at an Aurora hospital tackled him in anger as the activist was leaving the premises. JaxZion Justice Deak, a Denver gender activist, also is accusing The Medical Center of Aurora and its […]