Lawsuit

U.S. Releases Drone Strike ‘Playbook’ In Response To Lawsuit

August 8, 2016 Josh Bell, www.www.ACLU.org Resist! ACLU, Drones, Lawsuit

By Josh Bell for ACLU - NEW YORK - In response to a court order in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Obama administration has released a redacted version of the White House document that sets out the government’s policy framework for drone strikes “outside the United States and areas of actual hostilities.” The Presidential Policy Guidance, once known as “the Playbook,” was issued by President Obama in May 2013 following promises of more transparency and stricter controls for the drone program. But while the administration released a short “fact sheet” describing the document, it did not release the PPG itself, or any part of it.

Washington State Sues Comcast For $100M

August 3, 2016 Staff of Komo News, www.komonews.com Resist! Comcast, Lawsuit, Washington

By Staff of Komo News - SEATTLE -- Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a $100 million consumer lawsuit against Comcast. The lawsuit accuses Comcast of "engaging in a pattern of deceptive practices." It asserts that the company’s own documents reveal a pattern of illegally deceiving its customers to pad its bottom line by tens of millions of dollars. Comcast said in a statement that it intends to fight the lawsuit.

Baton Rouge Police Sued Over Violent Actions Against Protesters

July 18, 2016 Kevin Gosztola, www.shadowproof.com Resist! Baton Rouge, Lawsuit, Police, Protesters

By Kevin Gosztola for Shadow Proof - In the aftermath of the police killing of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, police officers clad in military gear attacked nonviolent protesters while brandishing automatic weapons. Armored vehicles, as well as chemical agents and a device designed to blast loud sound waves, were deployed. To bring these acts to a halt, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the Baton Rouge Police Department. As captured on video by store owner Abdullah Muflahi, on July 5, Sterling was selling CDs when officers tasered him and slammed him on the hood of a car.

Store Owner Witness To Sterling Killing Video Equipment Taken, Detained

July 12, 2016 Zack Kopplin, www.thedailybeast.com Resist! Alton Sterling, Lawsuit, Louisiana, police brutality

By Zack Kopplin for The Daily Beast - BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — The owner of the convenience store where Alton Sterling was killed last week by cops alleges in a lawsuit that police stole surveillance video from his shop, confiscated his cellphone, and locked him inside a car for the next four hours. Abdullah Muflahi, proprietor of the Triple S Mart, said he saw police confront and kill Sterling, who was selling CDs with his permission in his front parking lot last Tuesday night. Muflahi recorded part of the incident in footage he gave The Daily Beast last week that shows Sterling did not have a weapon in his hand when Officer Howie Lake shouted “Gun!” and Officer Blane Salamoni fired six shots into his chest.

Corporation Sues Poor, Black Community Fighting Environmental Racism

July 6, 2016 Kendra Pierre-Louis, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Black People, Corporations, Environmental racism, Lawsuit

By Kendra Pierre-Louis for Inside Climate News - "My dream," said Ben Eaton, one of the roughly 3,000 people who live in the working-class, mostly African-American hamlet of Uniontown, Alabama, "was to grow up, get married, build my own home, and just live life comfortably." It all worked out—except for the comfort. That part of his dream, says Eaton, was buried by a landfill. His dream home is now less than three miles from the Arrowhead landfill, which has filled his life with noise, an acrid smell and now, a lawsuit that followed when he complained about it.

Expanded Suit Alleges Alabama Violated Voting Rights Act

July 1, 2016 Anna Susman, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Alabama, Jobs and Wages, Lawsuit, Voting Rights

By Anna Susman for Popular Resistance - Birmingham, Ala. – A lawsuit filed in April against the state of Alabama for blocking Birmingham’s minimum wage increase expanded Thursday with the filing of an amended complaint that includes additional plaintiffs and defendants and a new claim that the bill signed by Gov. Robert Bentley nullifying the pay hike violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Alabama Legislative Black Caucus and nine individual black Alabama state legislators added their names to a suit initially brought by fast-food workers, the Alabama NAACP and Greater Birmingham Ministries charging the state acted illegally...

Lawsuit: White Boys ‘Dragged’ Black Girl By Rope Around Her Neck

June 20, 2016 Olivia Messer, www.thedailybeast.com Resist! Black Girls, Lawsuit

By Olivia Messer for The Daily Beast - The family of a black sixth grader in Texas is suing her school after white students allegedly wrapped a rope around her neck and pulled her to the ground. The $3-million lawsuit accuses Live Oak Classical School in Waco of negligence, gross negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The lead attorney on the case is Levi McCathern, who represents the Dallas Cowboys.

Taxpayer Surprise: Police Misconduct Suits Cost More Than Advertised

June 6, 2016 Emily Hoerner, www.injusticewatch.org Educate! Chicago, Lawsuit, Police abuse

By Emily Hoerner for Injustice Watch - Chicago’s announcement that it agreed on Tuesday to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging police misconduct barely tells the story. The settlement still must be approved by City Council, which already this year has approved $12.3 million to settle police misconduct cases, including $3.2 million to settle two cases in May. But the cash-strapped city repeatedly borrows the money to pay verdicts and settlements, leaving taxpayers on the hook for far more money than that approved by City Council for years and years into the future.

Monsanto Ordered To Pay $46.5 Million In PCB Lawsuit

May 28, 2016 Lorraine Chow, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Lawsuit, Monsanto

By Lorraine Chow for EcoWatch - A St. Louis jury has awarded three plaintiffs a total of $46.5 million in damages in a lawsuit alleging that Monsanto and three other companies were negligent in its handling of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a highly toxic and carcinogenic group of chemicals. Yesterday’s 10-2 verdict in St. Louis Circuit Court awarded $17.5 million in damages to the three plaintiffs and assessed an additional $29 million in punitive damages against Monsanto, Solutia, Pharmacia and Pfizer, the St. Louis Dispatch reported.

West Coast Cities Sue Monsanto To Pay For Chemical Cleanup

May 20, 2016 Sarah Gilman, www.hcn.org Resist! Chemicals, Lawsuit, Monsanto, West

By Sarah Gilman for High Country News - Portland, Oregon’s Willamette is no wilderness river. But on a spring day, downstream of downtown, wildness peeks through. Thick forest rises beyond a tank farm on the west bank. A sea lion thrashes to the surface, wrestling a salmon. And as Travis Williams, executive director of the nonprofit Willamette Riverkeeper, steers our canoe under a train bridge — dodging debris tossed by jackhammering workers — ospreys wing into view. The 10-mile reach, known as Portland Harbor, became a Superfund Site in 2000.

Judge: Lawsuit Against Torture Architects Allowed To Proceed

April 23, 2016 Eric M. Johnson, www.reuters.com Resist! Courts, Lawsuit, Torture

By Eric M. Johnson for Reuters - SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday refused to dismiss a lawsuit against the former military psychologists who developed the CIA's interrogation program during George W. Bush's presidency, handing a major victory to a group of men who said they were tortured in secret prisons abroad. U.S. District Court Judge Justin Quackenbush's decision to allow the case to proceed was a step forward in the campaign to hold individuals accountable for a program that the American Civil Liberties Union said resulted in the torture of at least 119 men from 2002 until it was ended in 2008.

Air Quality Board Sued Over Corporate-Friendly Smog Rules

March 11, 2016 Tony Barboza, www.latimes.com Resist! Air, California, Lawsuit

By Tony Barboza for The Los Angeles Times - Community groups and environmentalists filed suit Wednesday over Southern California air quality regulators' adoption of oil industry-backed smog regulations, saying the measures are so weak they violate state law and will hurt public health. The lawsuit seeks to negate the South Coast Air Quality Management District board's vote in December that rejected a staff recommendation to overhaul a cap-and-trade program for smog-forming emissions from oil refineries, power plants and other major polluters and instead adopted a proposal by the Western States Petroleum Assn.

Flint Families File Class-Action Lawsuit

March 9, 2016 Timothy Cama, www.thehill.com Resist! Flint, Lawsuit, Michigan, Water Pollution

By Timothy Cama for The Hill - Seven families in Flint, Mich., filed a federal lawsuit seeking damages from the city and state over the lead-contaminated drinking water crisis. The families are seeking class-action status from the court to cover any children poisoned by lead that leached into water due to the 2014 switch in Flint’s water source, NBC News reported Monday. Flint resident Melissa Lightfoot told NBC her three children had no health problems before the water switch, and now all three have dangerously high lead levels in their blood.

Cleveland Sues Tamir Rice’s Family For Ambulance Expense

February 16, 2016 Nathan Wellman, www.usuncut.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Cleveland, Lawsuit, police brutality, Tamir Rice

By Nathan Wellman for U.S. Uncut - Last December, a Cleveland officer killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice and forever shattered a family’s sense of peace in the process. Now police expect that same grieving family to foot the bill for the medical care provided to their dying son. The City of Cleveland has filed a creditor’s claim against the “estate” of the young boy. They expect the Rice family to pay five hundred dollars for “emergency medical services rendered as the decedent’s last dying expense.”

Chicago Cop’s Lawsuit Against Estate Of Slain Teen Might Be A First

February 13, 2016 Adeshina Emmanuel, www.chicagoreporter.com Educate! Chicago, Lawsuit, police brutality

By Adeshina Emmanuel for The Chicago Reporter - Chicago police officer Robert Rialmo was so traumatized after he killed Quintonio LeGrier and his neighbor Bettie Jones last December that Legrier’s estate should pay him $10 million. That’s according to a lawsuit filed by Rialmo’s lawyer in Cook County Circuit Court. The case might be a first, say some local and national legal experts. The lawsuit presents an unusual argument that attempts to make citizens pay for the hazards of policing.

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