The court ordered the California School District to pay $ 1,25 million in compensation to a former student who had to urinate in a bucket after being prevented from going to the toilet during class. The incident took place back in 2012, but the court proceedings have ended only now, according to the BBC. ...
The court sentenced oncologist Farid Fata of Detroit, Michigan, who made false diagnoses and forced unnecessary and expensive procedures on his patients, to 45 years in prison. The verdict sparked outrage among the victims of the doctor who hoped the fraudster would receive 175 years in prison, ...
The court sentenced a 20-year-old man from Brooklyn, New York, who brutally raped an 83-year-old widow, to 115 years in prison. However, he was too scared and did not appear in the courtroom at the announcement of the verdict, declaring through a lawyer that he did not want to be photographed, reports ...
Russian prostitute Svetlana Travis-Zakharova, accused of extorting money from former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, jumped out of a police car on her way to the Manhattan attorney's office, where she was being taken to testify. This, with reference to court papers, reports New York ...
Former husband of Sofia Vergara, businessman Nick Loeb, went to court in Louisiana on behalf of their children's embryos. The embryos even have names - Emma and Isabella. They have their own attorney, James Carbonnet, who is also a plaintiff, writes the New York Post. ...
Texas federal judge Amos Mazant has blocked a Department of Labor decision granting millions of Americans the right to receive additional overtime pay. The entry into force of the judgment is scheduled for December 1, USA Today reports. This ban affects about 4,2 million people ...
The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York has denied a new trial in the case of Russian citizen Viktor Bout, who is serving a prison term in the United States. This is evidenced by the court decision published on November 21. The Court of Appeal considered that the new materials in the case submitted by ...
Federal prosecutors persuaded a Brooklyn judge to refuse a million dollar bail to the well-known mobster, claiming that his tattoos indicate that he is a member of an international criminal group known as thieves in law, writes the New York Daily News. Alexey Tsvetkov, who came to the USA from ...
44-year-old Mexican citizen Jose Avianeda-Espinoza lived in the United States for 17 years, using someone else's personal data and posing as an American citizen. For these crimes, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison, according to the Immigration and Customs Service. Investigation…
A federal judge in Los Angeles, California, has tentatively approved a $ 26,3 million class action lawsuit against shampoo and hair-care cosmetics maker Chaz Dean. If the lawsuit also gets final approval in the district court, about 6 million Americans will get ...