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A federal lawsuit was filed Tuesday against Atlanta police over a September raid at a gay club, on behalf of 19 patrons who say they were forcibly searched and detained. Lambda Legal. "But inside the bar, the APD found no public sex, no drugs or illegal...
Tags: Atlanta Police Department, Atlanta Eagle Bar, federal lawsuit, Atlanta, Law Crime, Social Issues, Public house, Richard Pennington
A federal lawsuit was filed Thursday against Houston County Sheriff Cullen Talton and others that alleged more than a dozen deputies assaulted a mentally ill man while he was being held at the county jail in 2008. The lawsuit alleged that Shamel Howell,...
Tags: Shamel Howell, Virgil L. Adams, Houston County, federal lawsuit, Cullen Talton, Warner Robins, Macon metropolitan area, Macon Georgia, Howell, Warner Robins Georgia, Bibb County Georgia, Houston County Georgia, Jones County Georgia, Law Crime
Police have stepped up patrols following a report that a man tried to grab a woman student late Thursday as she was walking near Jarvis Hall at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. The TCU student told an officer she pushed her attacker away after...
Tags: Fort Worth, North Texas Tollway Authority, college students, federal lawsuit, suspected burglar, Tarrant County College District
The company said it changed the policy in 2004. The Lawry's chain of high-end steakhouses will pay more than $1 million to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit claiming that for decades it hired only women as servers, the government said Monday...Equal...
Tags: Lawry's Restaurants Inc., Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, discrimination suit, sex discrimination, federal lawsuit
In an odd intersection of showbiz and securities fraud, proving a claim that Paris Hilton was a lousy pitchwoman would benefit investors jilted by a Ponzi scheme she had no part in. A federal lawsuit set to go to trial Thursday against Hilton contends...
Tags: Paris Hilton Entertainment Inc., federal lawsuit, hilton film
A former Belgium police officer has filed a federal lawsuit alleging the felony misconduct case filed against him was fabricated...Lewis, 47, filed a federal lawsuit against four people he says put together a false case against him — former Vermilion...
Tags: Vermilion County Assistant State, federal lawsuit, Belgium, police officer, Larry Mills, Scott Corrie, attorney larry, David Lewis
A state trooper's "path of improper, abusive and violent behavior," including the 2002 slaying of an unarmed Uniontown boy, went undisciplined and led to the shooting death of a motorist on the South Side last month, the man's relatives said in a federal...
Tags: South Side, federal lawsuit
Former NBA player Roy Tarpley settled a federal lawsuit against the NBA and the Dallas Mavericks in which he claimed the league and the team violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by refusing to reinstate him after a ban for drug use...Tarpley,...
Tags: Roy Tarpley, NBA, tarpley settles, nba player, player roy, drug use, team violated, disability act, federal lawsuit, Dallas Mavericks
Idaho today filed a class-action federal lawsuit against the Dale G. Haile Detention Center, one of three structures that comprise the Canyon County Jail in Caldwell...Sheriff Chris Smith inherited a bad jail, and despite some fine efforts on his part,...
Tags: county jail, Canyon County, federal lawsuit, ACLU
A federal lawsuit over the stabbing death of an 18-year-old student at a school in southeastern Iowa has been settled. Levi Butler was stabbed to death at the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield on March 1, 2004. His killer, Shuvender Sem,...
Tags: Shuvender Sem, Maharishi University of Management, Iowa, Levi Butler, old student, southeastern iowa, stabbing death, federal lawsuit, Fairfield