All posts tagged "Litigation"

A man was extremely intoxicated when he ran over his wife in an airport parking garage, killing her after their Delta Air Lines flight landed in Utah, according to a new wrongful death lawsuit. The couple’s child was inside the car and witnessed their mother’s death at the Salt Lake City International Airport in April 2022, a complaint filed Feb. 8 says. Delta Air Lines is accused of overserving alcohol to Shawn Sturgeon, the child’s father, on the flight after he drank several alcoholic beverages before boarding the plane in San Antonio, Texas, according to the complaint. The family had retur......

The sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Lizzo by several of her former backup dancers is officially heading to trial. Allegations against the “Tempo” singer were made last summer by dancers Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez, who claim Lizzo harassed them during their time on her Special tour and while contestants on “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrls” in early 2021. While Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Marc H. Epstein ruled this week to toss several of the accusations — including one that Lizzo fat-shamed a dancer — he denied the singer’s motion to dismiss the......

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo has filed a complaint against the office of state Attorney General Letitia James, seeking about 180 undisclosed interview memos from her 2021 investigation into sexual harassment allegations against him. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Thursday, asserts that the public has a right to the documents, and that Cuomo needs the records to defend himself in two sexual harassment lawsuits that stemmed from James’ investigation. Cuomo’s complaint seeks an order forcing James’ office to respond to Freedom of Information Law requests that it says the former gove......

SEATTLE — Four Alaska Airlines passengers aboard the Boeing 737 MAX 9 plane when a piece of fuselage blew out earlier this month have sued both the manufacturer and the airline. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday morning in King County Superior Court in Seattle, is the first against Alaska Airlines since the Jan. 5 incident, according to Mark Lindquist, an attorney representing the passengers. Lindquist also represented the families of dozens of victims after two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 involving the Boeing 737 MAX 8. In this case, Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was operating a Boeing 737 MAX 9 on......

Actress Mia Goth faces a lawsuit from a background actor who claims she intentionally kicked him in the head during the filming of the A24 film “MaXXXine,” the third and final installment of the horror trilogy that includes the 2022 films “X” and “Pearl.” James Hunter, who says he was hired for three days to play the role of “Dead Parishioner,” is suing Goth for battery over the alleged kick, claiming it gave him a concussion. He also filed wrongful termination claims against A24 and the film’s director Ti West, reports Variety. In the lawsuit, Hunter writes that one scene required him to wear......

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Norman Fisher Jr. had been in the Sacramento County Main Jail for three months when he became ill last May, vomiting nonstop and unable to eat or drink. “He could barely sit up in his bed, and when he did so, he would vomit,” court papers say. Even after his cellmate, Jacob Smith, alerted jail custody staff that Fisher needed help the pleas were ignored, with one staffer telling Smith that if Fisher needed help he would have to fill out a form himself and ask for it, court papers say. Over the course of 10 days, as Fisher’s condition deteriorated to the point that he could......