A former organizer for Mike Bloomberg filed a class-action suit against the former New York Mayor’s 2020 presidential campaign Monday morning. The complaint argues that campaign workers, like Donna Wood who filed the complaint, were laid off eight months earlier than expected. “People are going from a pretty generous health care benefit to projected 20 to 30 percent unemployment,” Wood’s lawyer Sally Abrahamson told the New […]
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British socialite and alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell is suing Jeffrey Epstein’s $600-million estate for attorneys’ fees and security costs, claiming in a new complaint that the perverted financier promised to support her financially. “Maxwell receives regular threats to her life and safety, which have required her to hire personal security services and find safe accommodation,” states the complaint, which was filed March 12 in the Superior […]
Charley Gallay/Getty Images Former New York City prosecutor Linda Fairstein is suing Ava Duvernay and Netflix for portraying her “in a false and defamatory manner” in When They See Us, a Netflix miniseries about the Central Park Five. The miniseries focuses on the trials and convictions of Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise, the five teenagers who were imprisoned, and then had their […]
Linda Fairstein, the prosecutor of the now-exonerated Central Park Five, sued Netflix and the director of the series When They See Us on Wednesday, claiming the show contained defamatory scenes that portrayed her as a “racist, unethical villain.” Fairstein, a 72-year-old former New York prosecutor, alleged in the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida that the four-part series about […]
President Trump’s re-election campaign has sued CNN over “false and defamatory” statements about seeking Russia’s help to win the 2020 election, according to Fox News. “The complaint alleges CNN was aware of the falsity at the time it published them but did so for the intentional purpose of hurting the campaign while misleading its own readers in the process… the campaign filed this lawsuit against CNN […]
By Nebojsa Malic, senior writer at RT The Trump 2020 re-election campaign has now sued three major mainstream media outlets for defamation, in a move that seems less about legal redress than about holding self-appointed guardians of democracy actually accountable. On Friday, the campaign filed a lawsuit against CNN for “100 percent false and defamatory” statements in a report that alleged the US president had decided to […]
The Bernie Sanders campaign is suing to keep polling places in LA County open past 8pm as wait times of up to four hours and voting machine problems threaten a victory that exit polls place within tantalizing reach. The campaign filed an emergency injunction to keep polls open an additional two hours on Super Tuesday in LA County, where the rollout of a new voting system […]
Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump’s campaign is suing The Washington Post over two opinion pieces in June 2019, according to court documents released Tuesday. The lawsuit is the second libel claim in the last week from Donald J. Trump For President, Inc. — On Feb. 26, it sued the New York Times over an opinion piece about Russia. The two articles are written by progressive […]
Rep. Devin Nunes’s (R-Calif.) lawsuit spree continued on Monday with a complaint against The Washington Post demanding more than $250,000,000 in damages. The congressman’s defamation attorney of choice, Steven Biss, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division. Nunes said just over a week ago that this would happen. Nunes said that he didn’t know “what planet the Washington […]
Walt Disney’s grandson Bradford Lund (right), Bob Wilson (center), both of the Lund Foundation, which is a non-profit organization that helps disadvantaged children, pose with Marcia Hobbes (left), Chairman of Christie’s Los Angeles, in 1998. Bradford Lund, the 50-year-old grandson of Walt Disney, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a Los County Superior Court judge for violating his 14th Amendment right to due process of law. […]
Sara Netanyahu is being sued by a former housekeeper who claims to have been the victim of mistreatment while working at the Israeli Prime Minister’s residence. The accusations made by the 56-year-old immigrant from France include work-related harassment and abusive employment, Channel 12 has reported. After working at the residence for only five months up to November 2019, lawyer Opheer Shimson says his client, who wishes […]
President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign is suing The New York Times for libel over a 2019 opinion piece on the Russia scandal. The suit takes aim at an opinion piece written in March 2019 by former Times executive editor Max Frankel titled “The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo.” The piece argued that the true collusion between Trump and Russia was his administration’s “pro-Russian foreign policy,” […]
The 2020 Trump campaign has sued the New York Times for libel over a March 2019 opinion piece by former executive editor Max Frankel which peddled “as fact a conspiracy with Russia.” The lawsuit asserts that the article, “The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo,” describes how there didn’t need to be direct evidence of collusion between Trump and the Kremlin – as benefits to Russia from […]
AMZ, the defense contractor that makes the Tigr, Russia’s only modern armored car, can’t call their latest project ‘Wolf’ because Russia’s largest biker club, the ‘Night Wolves’ owns the trademark. So AMZ is taking them to court. Arzamas Machine-building Plant (AMZ) wants to call their latest armored car ‘Wolf,’ but they’ve hit a surprising road bump: the ‘Night Wolves’ have had the trademark for the word […]
On the day of the memorial/celebration of life for the basketball superstar, Kobe Bryant’s widow filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Monday against the aviation company that was operating the helicopter that crashed in California last month, killing her husband, their 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others (including the pilot), reported Bloomberg. Vanessa Bryant filed the suit against Island Express Helicopters and Island Express Holding Corp. seeking […]
(Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Baby2Baby) Vanessa Bryant is suing both the helicopter company and survivors of helicopter operator Ara George Zobayan after a deadly crash in Calabasas, California killed her husband, 13-year-old daughter, and seven others, including Zobayan. The lawsuit, which was filed Monday and first reported by the Hollywood Reporter, blames the judgment of both Island Express Helicopters and Zobayan about the weather conditions on […]
A former aide to President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against Chinese billionaire. Sam Nunberg dazzled the nation in early 2018 by ignoring a subpoena issued by then-special counsel Robert Mueller and then promptly appearing on CNN to discuss why he had flouted the government investigator’s authority. Now, Nunberg is incensed at Guo Wengui (a.ka. Miles Kwok) over a series of statements the wealthy New York […]
The man who killed Trayvon Martin is suing Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg for defamation over their tweets on the anniversary of Martin’s death earlier this year. George Zimmerman filed his 30-page lawsuit against the two presidential hopefuls Wednesday morning in Polk County, Florida—accusing both candidates of “race-baiting” in a press release announcing the legal filing. “Both Defendant Buttigieg […]
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is suing an alleged Ponzi scammer on claims he and his company raised half a million dollars for cryptocurrency investments, which instead went to personal uses. According to a press release, Breonna Clark, otherwise known as Eliot Clark or Alexander Pak, and his firm Venture Capital Investments Ltd. and The Life Group allegedly raised $534,829 from 72 victims, promising […]
Journalist Abby Martin Sues State Of Georgia Over Law Requiring Pledge Of Allegiance To Israel By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com February 13, 2020 Journalist Abby Martin Sues State Of Georgia Over Law Requiring Pledge Of Allegiance To Israel2020-02-132020-02-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/screenshot-9_edited.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Journalist Abby Martin announces a federal free speech lawsuit to overturn Georgia’s unconstitutional Israel boycott in partnership with CAIR and the Partnership for Justice Fund. Photo | Facebook Screenshot […]