In Illinois, convicted sex offenders can be confined indefinitely if they're deemed sexually violent. One inmate maintains that determination ran afoul to his constitutional rights.
Filed one day after the two-year anniversary of Laken Riley’s death, Jason Riley accuses the Board of Regents of failing to notify students when his daughter’s killer was caught peeping into a dorm window an hour before the murder.
JOHNSTOWN, Penn. — The insurer NORCAL won its motion to bifurcate and stay counterclaims brought against it by the pediatric clinic that employed Johnnie Barto, a doctor serving at least 79 years for sexually assaulting more than 30 children, most of them his patients. The court will first determine whether NORCAL owes the clinic defense and indemnification from a state-court lawsuit alleging it covered up Barto’s behavior, then can address the clinic’s counterclaims for bad faith and breach of fiduciary duty.
An Illinois couple sued Chobani in 2023 after realizing their so-called zero-sugar yogurt contained four grams of allulose, a naturally occurring sugar in foods like raisins and maple syrup.
The ruling allows a similar case pending before the Ninth Circuit to proceed.
HONOLULU — A federal court in Hawaii denied the government’s motion to dismiss a medical malpractice suit brought by two residents who say negligence during their child’s delivery at Tripler Army Medical Center resulted caused the child’s cerebral palsy and brain damage. The family says medical professionals concealed the cause of the child’s injury, so the statute-of-limitations question cannot be resolved at this stage.
U.S. District Judge Manish Shah said in a brief order issued Thursday that the Trump administration's cuts to public health grants were unconstitutional.
The victims seek to hold firearm industry members accountable for advertising they claim targets the kind of impressionable young men who commit the majority of mass shootings.
Glynn Simmons — who was released from prison in 2023 after serving 48 years behind bars — claims an Oklahoma detective fabricated the report that led to his murder conviction in 1975.
JASPER, Ala. — A federal court in Alabama granted summary judgment to American Honda Motor Company on the breach-of-warranty claim brought by the estate of two people who died in a crash on a used 2008 Honda motorcycle. The estate cannot recover damages because all the evidence supports the conclusion that the couple was killed immediately when their bike ran off a road and struck a tree; an Alabama breach-of-warranty claim requires evidence of suffering from an injury between the time of the crash and the time of death.
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. — A federal court in Pennsylvania dismissed manufacturing defect and warranty claims filed against Samsung after two homeowners’ dog inadvertently activated the front-facing burner knobs on their Samsung oven range. The homeowners missed repeated chances to adequately plead facts showing anything went wrong during the manufacturing process of the stove, or that it was unfit for its ordinary purpose of cooking.
