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Why CBS’ Leslie Moonves Could Get $120 Million in Severance
September 13, 2018
Despite being fired as Chairman and CEO of CBS due to at least twelve accusations of sexual misconduct, including assault, Leslie Moonves could still walk away with a $120 million severance. This is because CBS reached a settlement with Moonves pending its internal investigation.
The claims include that
Do Banks Have to Know Your Citizenship Status?
September 6, 2018
A Kansas couple says Bank of America blocked access to their bank account after they ignored a form demanding proof of citizenship from the husband, who was born and raised in Kansas. The couple thought the letter was spam. The account was unfrozen after he supplied a driver’s license at a
Why Trump’s Former Friends Can Receive Reduced Prison Time for Flipping
September 2, 2018
One by one Trump’s closest associates and friends are distancing themselves from him in order to save themselves.
After pleading guilty to eight federal counts, Michael Cohen announced through his lawyer that he would never accept a pardon from a “criminal” like Trump: “I know that Mr.
Fact or Fiction: A Sitting President Cannot Be Criminally Prosecuted While in Office
August 25, 2018
This is a fact! Trump’s lawyers have said special counsel Robert Mueller already has told them he would abide by a longstanding Department of Justice view that the Constitution bars prosecuting sitting presidents.
The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), the executive branch’s most authoritative in-house lawyer, has
Fact or Fiction: You Can Be Arrested for Harassing Animals
August 16, 2018
This is a fact!
A man was recently cited after another Yellowstone visitor took video of him walking up to a bison in a roadway congested with stopped cars and waving his arms. The animal charges him a couple of times, but Reinke doesn’t appear to get hurt.
Then, Yellowstone rangers
Can Police Officers Be Held Liable for Steering Trump Supporters into Violent Mob?
August 9, 2018
20 plaintiffs who attended a Trump campaign rally in June 2016 accuse San Jose, California police officers of directing them into a violent crowd of protestors. Plaintiffs say the officers stood by and did nothing while the rally attendees were physically assaulted with objects and hit.
An elderly
Fact or Fiction: Over 9,000 Lawsuits Claim Johnson’s Baby Powder Causes Cancer
July 25, 2018
This is fact! There are more than 9,000 talcum-powder lawsuits across the country. The lawsuits name as defendants companies like Johnson & Johnson and even the companies that mine talc and supply it to the manufacturers.
While only a few lawsuits have gone to trial, so far Johnson & Johnson
Why is MGM Resorts Suing the Las Vegas Shooting Victims?
July 21, 2018
MGM Resorts owns the Mandalay Bay hotel, used by Stephen Paddock to shoot and kill 58 people and wound more than 500 others. MGM also owns the Route 91 Harvest festival venue which hosted the music festival where victims were targeted.
In federal U.S. District Courts in California, Nevada,
Suing Over Bed Bugs – What You Need to Know
July 13, 2018
Planes, trains, automobiles, hotels, apartments, houses, and even movie theaters – what do all these places have in common? Bed bugs have attacked people there!
In Southern California a family was awarded $1.6 million against their apartment owner for suffering a bed bug infestation that left their child, then
In California, Courts Can’t Force Yelp to Remove Negative Reviews
July 5, 2018
Lawyer Dawn Hassell filed a defamation suit against her firm’s former client, Ava Bird. Bird acknowledged she wrote a one-star review of the Hassell Law Group that complained her lawyer had withdrawn from her personal injury case “because her mom had a broken leg, or something like