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WEBA federal court in California approves a $100,000 settlement to end farmworkers’ wage-and-hour class action against their former employer, which has gone out of business; that $100,000 is its remaining assets. With attorney fees, administration expenses and a class representative incentive award subtracted out, the net amount for the 4,000 ...
Former Milwaukee election official guilty of voter fraud, jury finds
WEBMar 20, 2024 · MILWAUKEE (CN) — The former deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission was found guilty of one count of misconduct in public office and three counts of voter fraud at the conclusion of her jury trial on Wednesday. Kimberly Zapata, 47, will be sentenced on May 2 at a hearing before Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Kori Ashley ...
Ninth Circuit finds that convicted felons also have Second …
WEBMay 9, 2024 · LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel Thursday ruled that a blanket prohibition on convicted felons possessing firearms violates their Second Amendment rights, at least when it comes to nonviolent offenders who served out their sentence.
Florida passes massive overhaul of litigation rules
WEBMar 28, 2023 · Florida passes massive overhaul of litigation rules. The law changes long-standing rules governing attorney fees and liability in negligence cases and has triggered a flood of lawsuits in the court system. Alex Pickett / March 28, 2023. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs a tort reform bill in his Tallahassee office on Friday, March 24, 2023.
Details of voting equipment breach emerge in Dominion security …
WEBJan 12, 2024 · ATLANTA (CN) — During the fourth day of trial Friday in the lawsuit over the security of Dominion voting machine systems in Georgia, details surrounding a hack coordinated by co-defendants of former President Donald Trump in the Peach State's election subversion case took center stage. The copying of …
Alan Dershowitz asks appeals court to revive his defamation suit ...
WEBJun 12, 2024 · (CN) — Retired Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz took to a federal appeals court in Miami on Wednesday, arguing to a three-judge panel that he should be able to pursue his tossed $300 million defamation lawsuit against CNN.. Echoing arguments from his 2020 suit, Dershowitz told the 11th Circuit panel that the news network defamed him when it aired and posted on its website, a ...
First Circuit upholds gun ban for nonviolent felons
WEBAug 2, 2024 · The panel found a long judicial tradition of denying firearms for felons, (CN) — The First Circuit upheld a federal law Friday prohibiting nonviolent felons from possessing guns, despite the Supreme Court’s landmark Bruen case that expanded gun rights under the Second Amendment. Carl Langston, who was sentenced to 57 months for possessing a ...
How Trump could end up with a prison sentence following his …
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Iowa city settles journalist’s excessive force claim for $100,000
WEBAug 22, 2024 · DES MOINES, Iowa (CN) —The city of Des Moines has agreed to pay a journalist $100,000 to settle a suit he filed against the city and a police officer claiming excessive force and illegal seizure when officers tackled and arrested him while he was covering a demonstration protesting the George Floyd murder by Minneapolis police officers in ...
California appeals court reverses November ballot label rewrite
WEBAug 13, 2024 · SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — California’s Third District Court of Appeal on Tuesday overturned a decision made last week by a lower court, ruling that the ballot label for a November voter initiative needs no rewrite. The appeals court issued its ruling just days after a Sacramento County Superior Court judge had ruled against the authors of ...