A unanimous Supreme Court said a family whose house was wrongly raided by law enforcement can sue.
Read MoreThe Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a straight woman in Ohio who filed a “reverse discrimination” lawsuit against her employer when her gay boss declined to promote her. The ruling will make it easier to file such suits in some parts of the country.
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Randy Clark and his wife, Yvette Franco-Clark, who own and operate The Gym 24/7 Fitness in Alma sued the state in 2020 over an order by Whitmer that closed gyms and certain other businesses to protect the public from the health emergency caused by COVID-19 in March of that year that remained in place for six months.
The Supreme Court denied a request to take up the case without comment.
Read MoreThe denial is among multiple legal dead ends families have come up against in recent months, including the recent dismissal of federal civil suits against the district. With this newest development, it appears families have very few legal paths left to pursue in their claims against what district officials could have done to prevent the shooting.
Read MoreA split Michigan Court of Appeals invalidated that warrant, however, finding it was too general for requirements under the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment. The amendment blocks “unreasonable searches and seizures.”
Read MoreA year after his firing over a sexual harassment scandal, disgraced Detroit Pistons executive Rob Murphy and the team have settled a contentious lawsuit with his accuser: DeJanai Raska, a former executive assistant to the powerful basketball figure who accused her boss of sexually taunting her for months.
Read MoreThe family of the Black teenager who was shot in the head after ringing the doorbell of the wrong home in Kansas City, Missouri, last year, filed a lawsuit Monday on his behalf against the White man who shot him and the residential homeowners association where the house is located.
Read MoreU.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday signaled support for Starbucks (SBUX.O), in the coffee chain's challenge to a judicial order requiring it to rehire seven employees at a Memphis cafe who were fired as they pursued unionization.
Read MoreThe US Supreme Court confronted the nation's homelessness crisis on Monday, weighing whether a ban on sleeping in public is cruel and unusual punishment.
Read MoreGun Owners of America has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to examine the constitutionality of Illinois’ stringent rifle ban, arguing it infringes on the rights of gun owners.
Read MoreThe 9th Circuit compared the searches to the “abuses of power” that “led to adoption of the Fourth Amendment in the first place.”
Read MoreThe Michigan Court of Appeals denied a request Thursday to reconsider its earlier opinion stating that a former Grand Rapids police officer should stand trial for murder in the 2022 killing of a Black motorist.
Read MoreA federal appeals court panel has upheld a U.S. magistrate’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit against the city of Waco filed by a veteran Waco police officer who claims he was retaliated against and his life endangered for his outspoken views on race and community relations.
Read MoreNeal Bissonnette and Tyler Wojnarowski drove trucks that delivered Wonder Bread and other baked goods. They sued Flowers Foods in 2019, claiming they were wrongly classified as independent contractors to avoid wage laws. Flowers Foods sought to enforce arbitration, which the courts supported, despite the argument of the drivers that they should be exempt as “transportation workers.”
Read More“It would be evident to a reasonable officer that (Akima) was, quite apparently, sober,” Judge Jane Stranch said in a 3-0 opinion. “So a reasonable jury could conclude that (the) arrest was not supported by probable cause and that Officer Peca was not entitled to qualified immunity.”
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