An Uber Tragedy Results in Greater Protections for Bay Area Consumers, Yet...
The tech-ride company Uber has instituted a policy for greater protections for consumers in the wake of the tragic death of a six-year-old San Francisco girl. An Uber X driver struck the six-year-old...
View Article10 Killed After Truck Hits Students’ Bus in California
10 people were killed and over 30 were injured in a fatal collision on a northern California highway April 10, 2014. The accident involved a charter bus, a FedEx truck, and a Nissan Altima and occurred...
View ArticleLos Angeles County Jails Fail to Provide Constitutionally Required Mental...
On June 4, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) released a thirty-six-page letter accusing Los Angeles County of subjecting mentally ill and suicidal prisoners to unconstitutional conditions....
View ArticlePatient Does Not ‘Like’ What She Sees on Facebook—Her Own Medical Records...
On July 3, 2014, an Ohio woman who was being treated for a sexually transmitted disease filed a lawsuit against University of Cincinnati Medical Center for the illegal release of her private medical...
View ArticleTransgender Man Sues New York City for Discrimination
Bryan John Ellicott, a transgender man, recently filed suit in the New York Supreme Court against the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (amongst other city officials) for discrimination....
View ArticlePolice Murder 95-Year-Old WWII Veteran
On June 20, 2014, Sharon Mangerson filed suit against the Village of Park Forest, Chicago and six police officers for shooting her stepfather, John Wrana Jr., to death. On July 26, 2013, after Mr....
View ArticleTwitter Sued for Spamming Phones with Unsolicited Advertisements
Social media service Twitter continues to illegally spam its users and non-users with text message advertisements from third parties, despite many text recipient’s repeated pleas to stop. Last week, a...
View ArticleUSC Students Racially Profiled by Los Angeles Police Department
On May 4, 2014, approximately seventy-nine police officers, some dressed in riot gear, responded to a noise complaint at a house party mostly attended by African-American and Latino students of the...
View ArticleComplaint Filed Against LA Superior Court for Stripping Disabled Americans’...
On July 10, 2014, The Disability and Abuse Project of Spectrum Institute, an advocacy group, filed a complaint with the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division alleging Los Angeles Superior...
View ArticlePrison Guards Repeatedly Taser Immobilized Vietnam Veteran
Dwain Smith, a Vietnam War veteran, was allegedly Tasered multiple times by Arkansas prison guards because he could not stand due to severe back pain. Smith, who also suffers from post-traumatic stress...
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