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A Michigan man is suing Detroit police after the departments’s facial recognition technology falsely identified him as a shoplifting suspect. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the complaint on behalf of Robert Williams, a 43-year-old Black man who was wrongfully charged in a 2018 theft at a Shinola store. Investigators reportedly identified Williams as the thief by using […]
Chris Brown has another lawsuit on his hands. According to legal documents obtained by TMZ, the 31-year-old singer is being sued over an alleged dog attack involving two people he hired to clean his home. The plaintiff, Patricia Avila, claims she and her sister were hired to clean Browns’ Tarzana, California, home for $600 a day. She says they […]
A civil lawsuit has been filed against Chet Hanks by his ex-girlfriend, Kiana Parker, that accuses him of assaulting her, KPRC-TV reports. The same suit, which was filed in Fort Bend County, Texas on Monday, alleges assault, battery and emotional distress by Hanks towards Parker. It also says that Hanks has a pattern of domestic abuse, and claims that […]
Donald Trump has another lawsuit on his hands. According to legal documents obtained by Bloomberg, the former president is being sued by two U.S. Capitol officers who sustained multiple injuries during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Plaintiffs James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby argue Trump incited the violent siege that left five people, including a police officer, dead. Blassingame and […]
A Palmdale, California mother is filing a lawsuit against her son’s school district after hearing his teacher’s racist rant over a Zoom call. TMZ reports that the incident in question happened in January, when the sixth-grade science teacher, Kimberly Newman, made bigoted remarks about one of her students and their parent after office hours on […]
On Friday, Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over claims that Dominion helped rig the 2020 election. The Associated Press reports that Dominion has argued the right-wing cable news channel targeted the company with a series of misleading or straight-up false claims of election fraud after Trump lost the 2020 election to Biden. […]
The Nipsey Hussle estate has reportedly dropped its lawsuit against the Crips. According to TMZ, Nipsey’s brother, Samiel Asghedom, notified the court that the estate had reached a settlement with Crips LLC. The document, which was filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Court, does not include details about the agreement, as both parties “are still hammering out some of the terms.” […]
A major paparazzi agency is facing serious financial issues. According to E! Online, Splash News and Picture Agency filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Tuesday, citing the global pandemic as a contributing factors as well as the mounting costs of “two ongoing litigation cases”; one of which involves Meghan Markle. The Duchess of Sussex had sued the company […]
Facebook has been sued by the international non-profit Reporters Without Borders organization over the spread of hate speech and disinformation, among other things. Reporters Without Borders announced the suit—filed with the public prosecutor in Paris—this week with a statement in which the social media platform is alleged to have engaged in “deceptive commercial practices” centered […]
Nicki Minaj’s mother has filed a civil lawsuit against Charles Polevich, the man who is accused of killing the rapper’s father in a hit-and-run collision. According to USA Today, the $150 million suit was filed by Carol Maraj’s legal team on Friday, more than a month after Robert Maraj’s death. The 64-year-old man was reportedly walking alongside a Long […]
