January 16, 2018 An Anaheim janitorial firm reportedly paid employees only $400 monthly for about four years, just a fraction of the minimum wage. The California Attorney General announced the filing of a lawsuit against the company that services dozens of retailers across the state as he called the firm “unscrupulous.” The retailers, including JoAnn’s…
January 6, 2018 After a 42-year-old man was shot and killed by a San Francisco police officer, lawyers filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the man’s mother. On Dec. 1, 2017, the man reportedly stole a government vehicle as police chased him. He then jumped from the van as a police vehicle…
December 15, 2017 Justice has been served for a former groundskeeper of a 48-acre mobile home park in Tallahassee. He was fired after confronting his employer over racial bigotry, an act which found him awarded $4 million in damages in a discrimination lawsuit. James Stock, the former owner of the Meadows, allegedly wrote a post on…
December 4, 2017 On Sept. 19, 2017, the Arizona Supreme Court determined that a lesbian woman should receive equal parental rights after divorcing her partner. However, Arizona law does not recognize these specific rights. The court ruled that the ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court set precedent in the case, giving the same rights to…
November 13, 2017 A town clerk in Hitchcock, Oklahoma, has filed a federal lawsuit against local police and government officials because he claims they turned a deaf ear to his complaints of homophobic and racist harassment inflicted on him and his family. Randy Gamel-Medler, who is gay and African-American, says the situation began in September…
October 29, 2017 A former Aggie student has accused A&M officials of bias against men when they allegedly violated his rights while he served on the Corps of Cadets team. The student, listed as “John Doe,” has named nine university officials along with the university as defendants. He has filed the lawsuit in federal court…
August 20, 2017 When UCLA law student Dyne Suh and her friends headed to the Big Bear cabin they reserved through the website AirBnB for a ski weekend, they did not receive the reception they had expected. When Suh was just minutes from the cabin, the host, Tami Barker, informed her that the reservation was…
August 10, 2017 Customers of four California Chinese restaurants might have noticed a change in ownership and management at the locations during the spring of 2017 after the former owners and managers were arrested for wage theft and tax evasion totaling $6.5 million. The arrests also uncovered stories of immigrant workers who were housed in…
July 10, 2017 A Minnesota police officer who fatally shot popular cafeteria employee, Philando Castile, 32, during a traffic stop in 2016 was acquitted on all charges by a jury in June 2017. Officer Jeronimo Yanez pulled Castile over in a suburb of Minneapolis, claiming he believed that Castile matched the description of a robbery suspect….
June 10, 2017 Francine Arthur, African-American mother of two, claims in an October 2016 lawsuit that she was harassed since April 2012 and wrongfully terminated by the Disney Corporation in California. Prior to her termination, she received multiple promotions since she began working as a night shift custodian in 2008. She moved up to Ghirardelli,…