#lawsuit

#lawsuit

A former Riverside megachurch pastor has been accused of sexually abusing and trafficking children for years at a shelter he ran in Bucharest, according to lawsuits filed by two Romanian men in U.S. District Court in California. The complaints, filed Tuesday by 33-year-old Marian Barbu and 40-year-old Mihai-Constantin Petcu, said former Harvest Christian Fellowship pastor and missionary Paul Havsgaard severely abused them and dozens of other children at the shelter over eight years.

Saga rooted in dispute between doctor and Larry Goodman over control of Blackrock Clinic

A third family has filed a lawsuit against an AI company, alleging that its chatbot drove their teen child to commit suicide. As the Washington Post reports, the parents of 13-year-old Juliana Peralta are suing AI chatbot company Character.AI, saying the company's chatbot had persuaded her that it was "better than human friends" and that it isolated from her family and friends, discouraging her from seeking help.

The news was announced in an open letter published early on Wednesday to co-founder Ben Cohen's social media channels. It read in part: "It's with a broken heart that I've decided I can no longer, in good conscience, and after 47 years, remain an employee of Ben & Jerry's. I am resigning from the company Ben and I started back in 1978. This is one of the hardest and most painful decisions I've ever made."

A New Jersey nurse told Fox News she was mind-blown when she witnessed a doctor she said was openly celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk last week leading her to call the doc out on her Instagram account, which was a move that resulted in her being suspended without pay, she claims. Lexi Kuenzle shared the wild story during an appearance on Fox & Friends on Monday morning.

In papers filed on Sunday, lawyers for Ohtani and Balelo said Hayes and Matsumoto in 2023 acquired rights for a joint venture in which they owned a minority percentage to use Ohtani's name, image and likeness under an endorsement agreement to market the venture's real estate development at the Mauna Kea Resort. The lawyers said Ohtani was a victim of NIL violations.

In the complaint, obtained by Pitchfork, lawyers for Chrome Hearts outline the brand's ownership "of the CHROME HEARTS® word mark, and composite trademarks comprising the CHROME HEARTS mark and design components," dating back to 1991. They argue that Young and his bandmates are infringing upon the brand's trademark by selling "Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts" (NYTCH) merchandise that "incorporates the exact CHROME HEARTS® word mark and is thus likely to cause confusion with Chrome Hearts' various Chrome Hearts Marks."

When Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a 38-year-old chiropractor while he was dropping his daughter off, they reportedly smashed out the windows of his car. The arrest, which happened on July 15, took place outside the child's pre-school in South Beaverton, Oregon. The father, originally from Iran, is married to a U.S. citizen who said he has applied for a green card to remain in the United States legally, according to Oregon Public Media.

Faced with a lawsuit, the administration of US President Donald Trump has disbanded a panel of five well-known critics of climate science who issued a controversial draft report questioning the evidence underlying global warming. US energy secretary Chris Wright asserted that the group had accomplished its goal in publishing the first draft, which the Department of Energy (DoE) has declined to withdraw. Two of the panel's members told Nature they plan to continue the work independently.

The driver left her near a gas station in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento, which was more than eight miles from her destination in Rosemont, according to the lawsuit. Doe had also left her phone and keys in the backseat. The area was "visibly unsafe" with a "D+ score in local crime grades," according to the suit. Doe was then approached by a man and a woman, who said they would help her get home if she paid them, according to the lawsuit.

The complaint asserts that FBI Director Kash Patel indicated directly to one of the ousted agents, Brian Driscoll, that he knew the firings were likely illegal but was powerless to stop them because the White House and the Justice Department were determined to remove all agents who had helped in investigations surrounding Trump.

Dixon, who appeared in Perry's long-running political drama The Oval and its spin-off Ruthless, filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles back in June, in which he claimed Perry used his "success and power [and] considerable influence in the entertainment industry to create a coercive, sexually exploitative dynamic". In the complaint, Dixon said he was promised "career advancements" by Perry only to "subject him to escalating sexual harassment, assault and battery, and professional retaliation when Mr Dixon did not reciprocate Mr Perry's unwanted advances".

The woman, referred to in court documents as "Jane Doe," also alleged the university was negligent, failed to take adequate security measures, and "placed her in an unusually vulnerable position." URI "knew, or through the exercise of reasonable care should have known, that its specific design of unisex restrooms which lacked reasonable privacy or safeguards created an unreasonable risk of harm to the Plaintiff and other students," the complaint argues.

Parker Seitz was violently attacked by off-duty Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputies, under the watchful eye of security guards contracted by a local business,

Google has been told by a US jury to pay $425m for violating the privacy of tens of millions of users who opted out of a feature tracking app use. The jury in San Francisco handed down the verdict on Wednesday after a group of Google users accused the tech giant of continuing to collect data from third-party apps even when they changed their account settings to prevent the practice.

Now the latest development is a lawsuit over corporate espionage in the AI industry. The AI data labeling company, which has provided training data to fuel many of the industry's leading AI models, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a former employee, Eugene Ling, and his current employer, Mercor, which is one of Scale's key competitors. Scale alleged that Ling, who was its head of engagement management, stole more than 100 confidential documents that contained proprietary information and company strategies for managing customers.

Some background for starters: Cardi B was sued by a former security guard for $24M who alleged Cardi scratched her face with her fingernail and spat on her. While many celebrities would rather keep things hush and settle out of court, Cardi B had the time to fight the case. The accusations were taken to trial and produced some very memorable moments ranging from hair care inquiry to a very colorful descriptions of the security guard during her time at the stand:

The action prompted a lawsuit from nine medical groups who alleged the administration's actions were arbitrary, illegal and threatened public health. Driving the news: Under the agreement, the Health and Human Services Department will reinstate the webpages in question to reflect how they appeared online as of January 29, 2025. Once that happens, the case will then dismissed, according to AcademyHealth, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has launched a legal battle against the White House, suing the administration of Donald Trump over her firing, according to court documents published on Thursday.

Over a few months of increasingly heavy engagement, ChatGPT allegedly went from a teen's go-to homework help tool to a "suicide coach." In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, mourning parents Matt and Maria Raine alleged that the chatbot offered to draft their 16-year-old son Adam a suicide note after teaching the teen how to subvert safety features and generate technical instructions to help Adam follow through on what ChatGPT claimed would be a "beautiful suicide."

This month, Oklahoma's Attorney General joined with the U.S. Department of Justice in a lawsuit seeking to overturn an Oklahoma state law giving in-state higher education tuition rates to undocumented residents. The lawsuit piggybacks off a January executive order titled Protecting the American People Against Invasion, part of which required the Attorney General and the Department of Homeland Security to review contracts with organizations that continued to provide services to undocumented immigrants.

They note that the 152-acre project site - an undeveloped swath of creosote scrub about a half-mile from the national park boundary - may support at least 10 plant and 17 animal species that are either listed as threatened or endangered or recognized as species of concern, including loggerhead shrikes, golden eagles, burrowing owls and, of course, desert tortoises such as Big Boy and Squiggles.

Melanie Damian, a court-appointed receiver for Surge, accused Deel of helping Russian entities sidestep U.S. sanctions by processing payments for Surge Capital Ventures.

Morgan alleges that regardless of fulfilling her contractual obligations by providing a mobile petting zoo for residents, The Terraces at Los Altos and CEO Preet Kaur refused to pay her, citing unspecified excuses.

Attorney Aleshire argues that the ballot language is misleading and does not clarify that the tax increase, if approved, would be permanent. He emphasizes that the City Council is attempting to mislead voters into accepting a significant tax hike.