TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida hospital has dropped its lawsuit seeking to evict a patient who refused to vacate a room for months after she was discharged because, the hospital said, she finally left. Tallahassee Memorial Hospital filed the lawsuit this month requesting an injunction to force the woman to leave room 373 and authorizing … Read more
A pro-Palestinian activist whose home was the target of a foiled firebombing plot had previously filed a federal lawsuit accusing a far-right pro-Israel group of orchestrating threats and intimidation against her. Weeks before authorities arrested a New Jersey man accused of plotting a Molotov cocktail attack on her home, activist Nerdeen Kiswani filed a lawsuit … Read more
Bank of America has reached a $72.5 million settlement in a lawsuit that alleges the financial giant helped facilitate the sex trafficking operation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to court documents filed Friday. The lawsuit was filed last October in New York federal court on behalf of alleged victims of Epstein. It claims … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis woman who confronted federal immigration officers alongside Alex Pretti in January was among a group of potential litigants who spoke out Thursday about alleged excessive force against people protesting or monitoring the enforcement surge in Minnesota. Georgia Savageford, who introduced herself as Wynnie at a news conference, said she was inside … Read more
A Venezuelan man sent to El Salvador’s notoriously brutal CECOT prison filed a $1.3 million lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday. Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel was detained on March 13, 2025 — his birthday — in Texas, removed from the U.S. and flown to CECOT with dozens of other immigrants on now-infamous flights. Leon … Read more
The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday opened applications for a major resilience grant program that the agency canceled last year, less than three weeks after a federal judge ordered FEMA to make the funding available. FEMA will make $1 billion available for the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, which helps states, local governments, … Read more
Minnesota officials have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of withholding evidence related to three shootings by federal officers, including the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti Minnesota officials filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday accusing the Trump administration of withholding evidence related to three shootings by federal officers, including the shooting … Read more
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Students at the University of Alabama filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging the suspension of two student-run magazines — one primarily focused on Black students and another on women’s issues The lawsuit accuses university officials of engaging in censorship and viewpoint-based discrimination. University officials in December informed the editors of the magazines … Read more
A federal appeals court judge is warning that her colleague’s decision to revive a lawsuit against a Black Lives Matter activist poses a threat to First Amendment rights. In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge appeals panel in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a police officer’s lawsuit against DeRay Mckesson deserves a … Read more
The Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman won a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff’s deputies who sued him over music videos in which he used home security footage to mock their raid of his home. “We did it, America! Yeah, we did it! Freedom of speech! Right on! Right on!” the 51-year-old rapper, born Joseph Foreman, shouted … Read more