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  • California Family Files Lawsuit Against Amazon After Their 2-Year-Old Daughter was Fatally Struck by a Delivery Driver

    California Family Files Lawsuit Against Amazon After Their 2-Year-Old Daughter was Fatally Struck by a Delivery Driver

    A California family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Amazon for the loss of their two-year-old daughter who was fatally struck by an Amazon delivery van, reports Insider.

    In August 2022, the Wu family tragically lost their two-year-old daughter, who was hit by an Amazon delivery truck in the parking lot of their apartment complex in Irvine, California, according to KTLA. Now they are suing the e-commerce giant in hopes of preventing other families from experiencing a similar tragedy. 

    However, according to the family’s attorney, Michael Adler, Amazon has denied any responsibility. Adler told the local outlet that Amazon claims that because the driver was hired through a third-party contractor they are not liable. Amazon has also withheld the dashcam video from the day of the incident. According to Adler, the company won’t release the video to the court without a confidentiality agreement, he told KTLA.

    Adler believes this is just a tactic used by Amazon to avoid lawsuits. According to a 2019 investigation done by ProPublica,

    “between 2015 and 2019, drivers delivering packages for Amazon had been involved in at least 60 car crashes that caused serious injury,”

    reports reveal. In each incident, Amazon denied responsibility for the delivery driver’s actions citing agreements from third parties that state that they will

    “defend, indemnify and hold harmless Amazon.”

    Adler says he will continue to fight for his clients.

    “We have the resources. We have the ability to fight them — but what happens to the next and the next and the next?”

    Alder asked, according to KTLA.

    “We don’t want that to happen to our client in this case, but we don’t want it to happen to anyone in the future,”

    he added. 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Alabama Man Was Denied Water For Over 70 Hours Before Dying In Police Custody From Hypothermia

    Alabama Man Was Denied Water For Over 70 Hours Before Dying In Police Custody From Hypothermia


    At the end of January, Alabama man Anthony “Tony” Mitchell died from hypothermia while also being denied water for 70 hours while in police custody. Now, his family is suing. According to CBS 42, a lawsuit alleges that Mitchell was denied access to medical and mental health treatment, hit with a stun gun, and repeatedly dragged by corrections officers when he could not walk.

    Tony Mitchell was taken to Walker County Jail and spent nearly 14 days there before his death on January 26th. Kept in a cell referred to as “the freezer,” due to its cold temperatures, Mitchell was denied a bunk, a sink, or any source of water. The cell only had a small hole in the floor covered with grating that could be used as a toilet.

    In those two weeks, the lawsuit claims that Mitchell had been provided a mat, a blanket, and later had a suicide watch garment, but those were all taken from him within the first few days. He spent the majority of the time naked, and sitting on a bare, concrete floor. He was given three meals a day, usually without water, and was allowed to shower less than half of the days he was in police custody.

    On the day of his death, a correctional officer offered him water for the first time within 70 hours, but Mitchell had been too weak from dehydration and hypothermia to sit up and drink it. Medical staff advised authorities to take him to a hospital at around 4:17 A.M., but video footage showed that Mitchell wasn’t transported from the facility until over four and a half hours later. At 1:15 P.M., he was pronounced dead.

    “I am not sure what circumstances the patient was held in incarceration, but it is difficult to understand a rectal temperature of 72° F 22° centigrade while someone is incarcerated in jail,” the emergency room’s doctor’s notes state. “The cause of his hypothermia is not clear. . . I do believe that hypothermia was the ultimate cause of his death.”

    In a statement released by the Walker County Sheriff’s Office, officials say that Mitchell was alert and conscious as he was rushed to receive medical care. A released surveillance video contradicts those claims, showing that the inmate had to be carried out by multiple staff members. Knowing they were already caught in a massive lie, the lawyer representing the sheriff’s office have yet to respond to the amended complaint.

  • High School Football Coach Fired For Praying with Team Wins $1.7M Settlement and Will Get His Job Back

    High School Football Coach Fired For Praying with Team Wins $1.7M Settlement and Will Get His Job Back

    A former high school football coach from Seattle was awarded a $1.7 million settlement and was given his job back after a Supreme Court decision ruled in his favor, NY Post reported. 

    Joseph Kennedy was suspended as football coach of the Washington state high school in 2015 after leading prayers with his team after games and having talks with them using

    “religious references.”

    He sued the district taking the case to the Supreme Court. 

    Kennedy claimed the prayers were

    “private acts of faith,”

    telling ABC News that after he started praying alone students began to join him. The school district noticed the student’s involvement and accused Kennedy of breaking the

    “Constitution’s prohibition on government officials promoting a religion,”

    reports state. 

    The Supreme court judges ruled in favor of Kennedy stating that Kennedy’s prayer groups were protected under the First Amendment, according to the Seattle Times. He is scheduled to return as the assistant football coach for Bremerton High School for the 2023 season, the district said on its website. 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts? 

  • Michigan Group Home Sued After Elderly Disabled Woman Dies From Starvation

    Michigan Group Home Sued After Elderly Disabled Woman Dies From Starvation

    A Michigan woman has filed a lawsuit against a group home after an autopsy revealed that her aunt’s cause of death was starvation, The Washington Post reported.

    While visiting last year, Charlene Jones noticed that her Aunt Bertha, who was physically and developmentally disabled, had lost weight. Jones says that the 71-year-old appeared more frail and that her face had sunken in. When she spoke with employees at Hoeft Home in Belleville, they reassured her that her aunt had been eating normally- three meals a day.

    In April, Jones learned that her aunt was unresponsive in the hospital, and that her organs were shutting down. Her aunt’s weight had dropped to 72 pounds, a drastic 54 pounds less than what was recorded two months prior. Two weeks later, Bertha Jones sadly passed away. Her cause of death was protein-calorie malnutrition while under the care of Hoeft Home and its employees.

    On the behalf of her family, Charlene Jones is now suing the group home and its staff. In the lawsuit seeking $25 million, Community Spirit Homes and Community Living Services, the company that operated the facility, is being accused of negligence, as well as inadequate training, staffing, and supervision. Though Hoeft Home has yet to release a statement, the with employees listed as defendants are no longer employees by them.

    “If they would have taken care of my aunt, if they would have fed my aunt, my aunt would be living today,” Charlene Jones said. “No doubt about it.”

  • Man Sues Buffalo Wild Wings For Falsely Advertising ‘Boneless Wings’ That Are Actually ‘Closer To Chicken Nuggets’

    Man Sues Buffalo Wild Wings For Falsely Advertising ‘Boneless Wings’ That Are Actually ‘Closer To Chicken Nuggets’

    An Illinois man has been filing class action lawsuits against multiple companies for

    “false advertisement”

    of their products. In his latest suit, he accused the restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings, of inaccurately naming their boneless wings which he claims are closer to chicken nuggets, Insider reported. 

    Aimen Halim filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Friday. According to court documents obtained by Insider, Halim is suing the franchise for

    “the false and deceptive marketing and advertising of’ that Buffalo Wild Wings Boneless Wings.”

    He claims that the boneless wings are

    “not wings at all”

    but are actually deep-fried chicken breast meat that mimics the look of chicken nuggets. 

    “Indeed, the Products are more akin, in composition, to a chicken nugget rather than a chicken wing,”

    the document says. It went on to call the advertisement

    “misleading”

    and pointed out that if the product was in fact a boneless wing it would resemble a chicken wing that

    “has simply been deboned.”

    Buffalo Wild Wings responded via Twitter about the case where they seemingly poked fun at it,

    “It’s true. Our boneless wings are all white meat chicken. Our hamburgers contain no ham. Our buffalo wings are 0% buffalo.”

    Buffalo Wild Wings has carried their boneless wings since 2003 and has described it as

    “all-white chicken” that’s “lightly breaded.” 

    However, Halim believes with a name like

    “Buffalo Wild Wings”

    they ought to be more specific.

    “It should be noted that Domino’s Pizza and Papa Johns also sell actual chicken wings, and that, a restaurant named Buffalo Wild ‘Wings’ should be just as careful if not more in how it names its products,”

    the lawsuit says. 

    Halim previously filed lawsuits against Colgate, Kind, and Hefty — accusing Colgate of falsely labeling their Tom’s Wicked Fresh Mouthwash as

    “natural.”

    He said Kind’s “high in fiber” label was also untrue and that Hefty shouldn’t advertise its bags as

    “recycling bags”

    because they are not recyclable. The Hefty case was dismissed in August, reports state. 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Hotel Sexual Assault Reports In Texas Increasing Due To Staff Giving Predators Access To Women’s Rooms

    Hotel Sexual Assault Reports In Texas Increasing Due To Staff Giving Predators Access To Women’s Rooms

    The number of cases where of women being raped in their rooms at popular hotel chains, due to employees handing over the keys to sexual predators unchecked, is increasing. According to New York Post, men were able to break into the room of women after lying to staff to obtain access to their rooms in three separate cases in Texas.

    In December of 2022, a guest at a Gonzales, Texas Holiday Inn Express & Suites woke up to a man standing at the end of her bed with his pants undone and a condom out. “She was able to scream and get him out of the room, and she immediately called down to the front desk,” the victim’s lawyer explained. “They admitted, ‘Oh yes, we did give a key to the man. He said he knew you.’” The suspect was later located and arrested and charged with attempted sexual assault.

    In Austin, Texas, Kathleen Dawson was found unconscious outside the the $500-a-night Hilton Americas Houston hotel she was staying at. When spotted, a concerned bystander notified police. Hotel staff and officers from Houston’s police department followed the instructions of Dawson’s coworker, who falsely claimed she was staying in his room. Without checking her room number, hotel staff put Dawson in a wheelchair and rolled her into her coworker’s room. She later woke up to the man raping her. In a civil suit, Dawson was awarded $44 million in damages.

    “Although Hilton typically does not comment on legal matters, we respectfully disagree with the jury’s verdict, and attest that our hotel team members acted at the direction of the Houston Police Department,” a spokesperson from the hotel chain explained.

    In January of this year, a woman staying at the DoubleTree Austin University Area Hotel saw a man’s hand pushing through the gap between the open door and trying to remove the safety latch. When she saw the man attempting to break in, she slammed the door on his finger, completely severing it off. After discovering that the man had been provided with a keycard to her room, the woman is now suing the hotel management company for $1 million.

  • Toddler Fell Asleep In An Airbnb And Died From Fentanyl Overdose, And Now Her Family Is Suing

    Toddler Fell Asleep In An Airbnb And Died From Fentanyl Overdose, And Now Her Family Is Suing

    In August of 2021, a family from Guadeloupe rented a four-bedroom lake house in Wellington, Florida through Airbnb for a family vacation. After a morning of watching television and playing
    with her four siblings, Lydie Lavenir put her 19-month-old Enora down for a nap. Two hours later, when Lavenir went to check on her, she discovered that her toddler had passed away in her sleep, The Washington Post reported.

    “It’s like we fell into a trap,” Enora’s father, Boris Lavenir, explained.

    Both an autopsy by the Palm Beach County medical examiner and another independent toxicology determined that Enora’s system contained a lethal amount of fentanyl. Investigators initially suspected the baby’s parents, but were unable to find drugs among their belongings, and Lydie and Boris had tested negative.

    Previous renters of the property were questioned, and it was discovered that one of them had hosted a party where recreational drug use occurred. They admitted to using cocaine, but denied the use of fentanyl.

    “I am currently unable to determine how the child Enora Lavenir ingested the fentanyl,” an investigator wrote in the latest report. “Therefore I am unable to develop probable cause for abuse or neglect leading to the death of Enora. Currently the manner of death is listed as accidental.”

    The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office has closed the case, but the parents of Enora are still seeking justice. The Lavenirs are now suing Airbnb, the property owner, the rental’s manager, and the renter who had hosted the party. They believe that the fentanyl that took the life of their child was left behind by partygoers, and not cleaned up after their departure.

    “Our hearts go out to the Lavenir family and their loved ones for their devastating loss,” Airbnb said in a statement.

    Lars Noah, a law professor at the University of Florida, says that the lawsuit against Airbnb is unlikely to make it to trial.

    “They can prove that the child died from fentanyl exposure, but where that fentanyl comes from, linking it to this particular group, that just sounds monstrously difficult under these circumstances.”

  • Teacher ‘Forced’ and ‘Manipulated’ 5th Grader To Become Transgender, Causing The Student ‘Suicidal Ideation’, Lawsuit Says

    Teacher ‘Forced’ and ‘Manipulated’ 5th Grader To Become Transgender, Causing The Student ‘Suicidal Ideation’, Lawsuit Says

    Parents have filed a lawsuit against a New York teacher and the school district for allegedly attempting to

    “manipulate” and “force”

    their 5th-grade daughter to change her gender without parental consent which caused the child

    “confusion” and “suicidal ideation,”

    the lawsuit alleged per Fox News. 

    Debra Rosenquist, a teacher at the Terryville Road Elementary School in the Brookhaven-Comsewogue School District, was named along with the superintendent, Jennifer J. Quinn, and the principal, Annemarie V. Sciove, in a suit filed on Jan. 23. 

    The lawsuit claims that Rosenquist

    “targeted” and “harassed”

    the young girl throughout the 2021-2022 school year, purposely calling the student by male names and pronouns, the suit said.

    “As a result, [the student] became confused as to her gender. Despite knowing about Rosenquist’s conduct…, it took the District, [Superintendent] Quinn, and [Principal] Sciove months to inform [her parents] about it,”

    the suit said. The lawsuit also alleged that

    “Rosenquist pursued her own agenda outside the curriculum, which included persuading her 5th-grade students to try ‘being gay’ or being another gender even when they were not. To further her agenda, Rosenquist read and provided her student’s graphic books about gender and sexuality which were not on the curriculum.” 

    The 5th-grade girl who was born a female and identifies as female became so

    “distressed by Rosenquist’s referring to her as a male that she drew a picture of a girl and referenced suicide,”

    according to the lawsuit. In January 2022, the parents were notified that their daughter drew a picture of a girl with the words

    “I wanna kill myself”

    and

    “I feel sad like a lot.”

    Brookhaven-Comsewogue School District was reportedly informed of Rosenquist actions, as they were allegedly reported to the District. The Superintendent told the outlet that they are conducting a

    “thorough investigation and consultation with our attorney, action is [being] taken in accordance with applicable laws and collective bargaining agreements. “

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Detective Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Homicide Victim’s Mother, Lawsuit Says

    Detective Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Homicide Victim’s Mother, Lawsuit Says

    A woman has taken on a federal lawsuit against a Philadelphia homicide detective who allegedly sexually assaulted and harassed her while investigating her son’s murder, Fox News reported. 

    The mother, who tragically lost her son to gun violence on Nov. 2, 2020, is now pursuing a lawsuit against the detective in charge of the case. According to a court filing obtained by Fox News, the woman who is referred to as Jane Doe is suing detective Donald Suchinsky,

    “a seasoned investigator,”

    for sexual assault and harassment after he allegedly made several unwanted advances on her. 

    Suchinsky reportedly called the victim from an office phone

    “and told her there were ‘things’ he wanted to do to her, but he could not say what they were,”

    the lawsuit claims. The lawsuit also accuses Suchinsky of asking the woman for images. Other officers were allegedly aware of Suchinsky inappropriate behavior but did not intervene. 

    The lawsuit went on to say that Suchinsky went as far as to invite the woman to police headquarters and then sexually assaulted her in her car. After the alleged assault the woman asked if a different detective could be assigned to her case but no efforts were taken, according to the civil complaint. Suchinsky continued to spend months harassing the grieving mother, sending distasteful emails and phone calls, reports note. 

    According to court records, it appears that Suchinsky has been listed in at least three prior federal lawsuits against the city. However, the cases filed in 2019, 2010, and 1999 were all dismissed. Fox News reached out to the Philadelphia Police Department for answers to which they responded,

    “The PPD cannot comment on the specifics of these allegations due to an active Internal Affairs investigation, as well as pending litigation.” 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts? 

  • Lil Nas X Named In $1 Million Lawsuit Over Hollywood Hills Mansion Party, Reports Say

    Lil Nas X Named In $1 Million Lawsuit Over Hollywood Hills Mansion Party, Reports Say

    Lil Nas X is being sued by a property owner who claims that the pop star threw an unauthorized mansion party at his residence, TMZ reported. 

    Landlord, Daniel Fitzgerald is suing Lil Nas X, 23, and famed DJ, DJ Zedd, 33, for $1 million after they went against his wishes and hosted a party in his Hollywood Hills mansion. Fitzgerald claims his property was left with

    “considerable damages,”

    reports note. 

    The big bash, which was held in April 2022, reportedly held 1,000 partygoers with performances from the

    “Old Town Road”

    singer. DJ Zedd and Lil Nas X was reportedly paid $250,000 for their appearance at the party. 

    According to Fitzgerald, he was left with $25,000 in damages to his property,

    “with the walls, ceilings, sofas, and chairs left in need of repair.”

    He alleges that he also lost $40,000 in rental fees that he could have collected in the month that repairs were being done. He is asking for $1 million in his suit from the entertainers as well as the promoters and sponsors of the bash.

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?