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Texas Supreme Court: Alex Jones, website can be sued by Sandy Hook parents
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected, without comment, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' attempt to toss out four defamation lawsuits by parents of children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012. The parents sued in Travis County, where Jones and his Infowars website are based, arguing that they were defamed and suffered emotional distress after Infowars broadcasts disputed the authenticity of the school shooting and the news coverage that followed. Twenty students and six adults were shot and killed at the Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut. Friday's action by the...
Austin American-Statesman
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Tribune Publishing sued for $4.8 million in missed rent payments as it exits Prudential Plaza
As the Chicago Tribune prepares to move from Prudential Plaza, the owner of the downtown office complex has sued the newspaper’s parent company for $4.8 million in unpaid rent. Property owner Sterling Bay filed the lawsuit against Tribune Publishing Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court. The Chicago-based newspaper chain hasn’t paid rent since March, and the company’s letter of credit ran out of funds earlier this month, the suit alleges. The letter of credit was created when the lease was signed in October 2017, according to the complaint. A letter of credit establishes cash reserves that can ...
Chicago Tribune
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Ex-etiquette: Want to sue a cheating spouse? Proceed with caution
Q. I caught my wife cheating. Is it against the law? I want to sue someone or arrest someone! Seems like something that hurts so many people should be against the law! My kids are really messed up and I don’t know what to do. What’s good ex-etiquette? A. As I’ve said before, good ex-etiquette is good behavior after divorce or separation. Unfortunately, this sounds like bad behavior before divorce or separation — so technically, the good ex-etiquette component applies to how you handle yourself after the breakup. Threatening lawsuits and arrests may be a little over the top, although most in yo...
Tribune News Service
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Walmart to pay Illinois workers $10 million in privacy settlement
Walmart will pay $10 million to some Illinois employees to settle allegations it used a palm scanning device that violated their privacy rights. The deal could amount to a couple hundred dollars for each person who is part of the class-action settlement, which received preliminary approval from the Cook County Circuit Court last month. In a lawsuit filed in 2019, former Walmart employee Ethan Roach alleged the retailer required him to use a palm-scanning device when checking out and returning cash register drawers without obtaining his written permission, violating an Illinois law protecting r...
Chicago Tribune
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ESPN settles lawsuit with former SportsCenter producer who says she was fired over false accusations of racism
ESPN has settled a lawsuit with a top producer who sued the company for painting her as a racist so it could fire her, the Daily News has learned. Melissa “Missy” Motha, a former coordinating producer of the 6 p.m. SportsCenter, ESPN’s flagship original show, was seeking more than $5 million in back pay and damages after being publicly accused of telling a Black colleague “Your job is so easy a monkey could do it,” according to a lawsuit filed in Connecticut Superior Court. Motha was fired in July of last year, not long after Celia Bouza, the director of an ESPN development and diversity initi...
New York Daily News
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Michigan Republicans seek to replace GOP canvasser who certified election
LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Republican Party wants to replace the GOP member of the Board of State Canvassers who cast the pivotal vote to certify election results in favor of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden. With party activists calling for certification to be blocked on Nov. 23, Aaron Van Langevelde, a policy adviser and deputy legal counsel for state House Republicans, joined the two Democrats on the four-member board to sign off on the results. His term ends on Jan. 31. Instead of renominating him for a four-year term, the Michigan Republican Party has proposed three well-known acti...
The Detroit News
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New York attorney general sues NYPD over response to protests
NEW YORK — City police violated New Yorkers’ First Amendment rights by suppressing “overwhelmingly peaceful” protests over the death of George Floyd, New York State Attorney General Letitia James charged Thursday in a lawsuit. James’ 69-page suit seeks a court-appointed monitor to manage an overhaul of NYPD practices at large demonstrations, which she says have devolved into police abuse for decades. “From May 28, 2020, to Dec. 11, 2020, NYPD officers of various ranks . . . repeatedly and without justification used batons, fist strikes, pepper spray, and other physical force against New York r...
New York Daily News
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New York attorney general sues NYPD over response to protests
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department violated New Yorkers’ First Amendment rights by suppressing “overwhelmingly peaceful” protests over the death of George Floyd, New York State Attorney General Letitia James charged Thursday in a lawsuit against the country’s largest police force. The 69-page suit asks a judge to declare the NYPD’s practices at protests unlawful and features photos of protester injuries at the hands of police officers. James seeks a court-appointed monitor to manage an overhaul of NYPD practices at protests, which she says have devolved into police abuse for decades. “F...
New York Daily News
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Judge considers suppression claims in broad Georgia voting rights suit
ATLANTA — So much has changed in Georgia over the past two years, including new voting laws and the election of Democratic U.S. senators, that a federal judge should reject a lawsuit alleging rampant voter suppression, attorneys for the state said Tuesday. The lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Steve Jones to rule in their favor in the case that has been pending since Democrat Stacey Abrams lost the 2018 election for governor to Republican Brian Kemp. But attorneys for Fair Fight Action, the voting rights group founded by Abrams that filed the suit, told Jones that Georgia’s elections continue ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Nicki Minaj to pay Tracy Chapman $450K for sampling ‘Baby Can I Hold You’ without permission
Singers Nicki Minaj and Tracy Chapman have settled a bitter lawsuit over Minaj’s sampling of the 1988 hit song “Baby Can I Hold You.” Chapman decided to accept the rapper’s $450,000 offer to resolve the civil case, ending a two-year dispute and avoiding an even costlier trial, according to federal court records obtained by the Daily News. The lawsuit accused Minaj of copyright infringement for sampling Chapman’s song in her 2018 tune “Sorry,” which leaked on social media and almost made it into Minaj’s album “Queen.” Minaj’s version features rapper Nas and includes several verses from Chapman’...
New York Daily News
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