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 […]
DAMASCUS, Md. Aug 13 2019 A former security guard at John T. Baker Middle School is suing Montgomery County Public Schools, alleging the female principal he reported to engaged in sexual harassment, gender-based discrimination and hostile behavior. The 12-page, federal, civil rights lawsuit — filed this May in the U.S. District Court for the District […]
Las Vegas NV Aug 10 2019 A father is suing a security company after one of its employees was convicted of murdering his son in a 2017 shooting at a condo complex pool in east Las Vegas. Travone Crockett was 20 when he was shot and killed at Mountainside Condominiums, 6800 E. Lake Mead Blvd. […]
BEAUMONT TX Aug 8 2019 – A lack of speed bumps and other safety precautions was the reason Iesha Guilliame, a security guard, was struck by a dump truck at Total Petrochemicals, according to a recently filed lawsuit. Alleging the company was grossly negligent and acted with malice, Guilliame filed her suit against Total on July […]