Mar 01 Kobe Bryant’s family settles lawsuit over photos shared following deadly helicopter crash By Andrew Dalton, Associated Press County deputies and firefighters had shot photos of the bodies and shared them with others in their departments. A county lawyer said the pictures were part of their job, but Vanessa Bryant's lawyer said they were shared as “visual gossip.”… Continue reading
Feb 24 Watch 3:49 New lawsuit may help provide answers about Malcolm X’s assassination By Geoff Bennett, Karina Cuevas Malcolm X was assassinated 58 years ago this week. Since that day, there have been many difficult and painful questions about who may have been involved in his murder and what led to it. His family took new action, announcing… Continue watching
Feb 01 Federal judge allows lawsuit against Kyle Rittenhouse to proceed By Scott Bauer, Associated Press A federal judge in Wisconsin has ruled that a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the father of a man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest in 2020 can proceed against Rittenhouse, police officers and others. Continue reading
Dec 03 Watch 7:15 VA denied benefits for Black veterans at higher rate for decades, lawsuit says A new lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs alleges decades of discrimination against Black military veterans. To learn more, Geoff Bennett speaks to Conley Monk Jr., a Vietnam War veteran whose VA benefits were denied for nearly 50 years,… Continue watching
Nov 07 GOP elections committee chair in Wisconsin sues to sequester military ballots By Scott Bauer, Associated Press The Republican chair of the Wisconsin Assembly’s elections committee along with a veterans group and other voters have filed a lawsuit seeking a court order requiring the sequestering of military absentee ballots in the battleground state. Continue reading
Oct 21 Chess star Hans Niemann files lawsuit over cheating allegations By Margaret Stafford, Associated Press Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann alleges in a federal lawsuit that chess world champion Magnus Carlsen and others destroyed his career by accusing him of cheating. Continue reading
Oct 12 Judge rules Trump must sit for deposition in defamation lawsuit By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press A judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump will have to sit for a deposition next week in a defamation lawsuit filed by a writer who says he raped her in the mid-1990s. Continue reading
Oct 10 New lawsuit from small business group seeks to block Biden student debt relief plan By Jill Colvin, Associated Press The suit, filed Monday by the Job Creators Network Foundation, argues the Biden administration violated federal procedures by failing to seek public input on the program. Continue reading
Oct 04 Judge dismisses charges against 7 people in Flint water crisis By Ed White, Associated Press A judge has dismissed charges against seven people in the Flint water scandal, including two former state health officials blamed for deaths from Legionnaires' disease. Continue reading
Oct 03 Donald Trump files $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN By Associated Press Former President Donald Trump has gone to court against CNN, a familiar target when he was president. He's seeking $475 million in damages, saying the network's reports are trying to short-circuit any future political campaign. Continue reading