Assisted living home lawsuit, citations add to controversy over Hovde’s nursing home remarks
Campaign says GOP Senate hopeful has no responsibility for facility and lawsuit lacks merit
By Erik Gunn, Wisconsin Examiner - April 24, 2024Campaign says GOP Senate hopeful has no responsibility for facility and lawsuit lacks merit
By Erik Gunn, Wisconsin Examiner - April 24, 2024Nineteen state attorneys general joined Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson in filing an amicus brief in a lawsuit aimed at stopping the Idaho ban.
By Rebekah Sager - August 16, 2023'Does religious freedom just apply to a narrow group of Christians, or do we all have religious freedom?' asks an attorney representing plaintiffs in Kentucky.
By Rebekah Sager - July 18, 2023Trump supporter Ray Epps is suing the network for promoting a conspiracy theory that he was an FBI plant at the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
By Oliver Willis - July 13, 2023Although President Donald Trump has given sworn testimony and denied most allegations, his attorneys announced they would offer no defense in the rape and defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.
By Rebekah Sager - May 04, 2023The campaign of Sen. Raphael Warnock, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Georgia Democratic Party filed suit to allow early voting on Nov. 26.
By Emily Singer - November 16, 2022‘This investigation revealed that Donald Trump engaged in years of illegal conduct to inflate his net worth, to deceive banks and the people of the great state of New York,’ state Attorney General Letitia James said at a news conference.
By Associated Press - September 24, 2022An Arizona judge ordered Rep. Paul Gosar and two other state Republicans to pay over $75,000 for filing a frivolous lawsuit against Democrats.
By Associated Press - September 02, 2022With lives at risk following the enactment of dangerous abortion bans in several states, the federal government is taking action.
By Lisa Needham - August 09, 2022‘If Roe is overturned, abortion could become illegal in Michigan in nearly any circumstance—including in cases of rape and incest,’ said Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
By Adrian Cole - April 12, 2022The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado on behalf of the state chapter of the NAACP, the League of Women Voters and Mi Familia Vota.
By Associated Press - March 12, 2022Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s lawsuit accuses Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, and others of a participating in a ‘coordinated campaign’ of retaliation against him.
By Associated Press - February 05, 2022The lawsuit says the website Gateway Pundit and its owner conducted a ‘campaign of lies’ that led to online and in-person harassment against two Fulton County election workers.
By Associated Press - December 05, 2021Lambda Legal sees victory in its fight for widowed LGBTQ people to receive Social Security survivors benefits they’re entitled to.
By Casey Quinlan - November 02, 2021Advocates for immigrants have long warned that former Sheriff Joe Arpaio should be viewed as a cautionary tale for the long-term financial obligations communities take on when they let local police officers handle immigration enforcement.
By Associated Press - October 30, 2021The lawsuit says Republicans passed an ‘absurd’ congressional map that gives white voters more power.
By Emily Singer - October 26, 2021A lawsuit filed by the Biden administration seeks to land the first legal blow against the Texas law.
By Associated Press - October 01, 2021The lawyers will have to pay the legal fees of 18 different people and entities they sued over the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
By Emily Singer - August 05, 2021Experts said it’s crucial that the money is spent to combat the opioid scourge because the overdose epidemic is raging.
By Associated Press - July 25, 2021U.S. District Judge Linda Parker in Detroit is holding a hearing by video conference Monday.
By Associated Press - July 12, 2021‘By relying on detainee labor, GEO avoided the cost of hiring non-detainee workers and unjustly pocketed the savings and resulting profits,’ charged the Washington state attorney general’s office.
By Associated Press - June 05, 2021The lawsuit seeks a comprehensive but easier system for students to report sexual misconduct and get help.
By Associated Press - May 23, 2021A group of civil rights and voting rights advocates filed a lawsuit against Florida’s new law minutes after it was signed by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis.
By Emily Singer - May 06, 2021‘This is just pure political grandstanding,’ said an advocate from one environmental group.
By Amy Lieu - April 15, 2021Georgia was just hit with the fifth federal lawsuit against its new law that makes it harder to vote.
By Emily Singer - April 08, 2021The plaintiff claimed police used excessive force against her, making the shooting an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment.
By Associated Press - March 25, 2021Rep. Ted Budd’s bill is a liability shield for businesses whose employees or customers become sick with the coronavirus.
By Josh Israel - February 19, 2021With his second Senate trial behind him, a lot of legal trouble lies ahead for Donald Trump.
By Associated Press - February 16, 2021The lawsuit also accuses Donald Trump of conspiring with extremists to stop the certification of the election that he lost to Joe Biden.
By Associated Press - February 16, 2021Three Fox News hosts are seeking the dismissal of claims against them in a major lawsuit brought by voting technology company Smartmatic.
By Associated Press - February 12, 2021