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Couple sues over wrongful arrests, shooting

February 17, 2010

A Glasgow man and his girlfriend have filed suit against the law-enforcement officers who arrested them — and shot her — in Louisville after he was mistakenly identified as a suspect.

 

A Jefferson District Court judge ruled last March that Marcus D. Brewer didn’t know the deputy marshals, who were in plain clothes, were law-enforcement officers as they approached the couple’s rented car in a gas station parking lot. Brewer said he fled but stopped the vehicle as soon as he realized who they were.

 

 

Read Article: CourierJournal.Com

 

Woman sues after nursing stranger’s baby

EVANSTON, Ill., Feb. 13 (UPI) — An Illinois woman who says she was given the wrong baby to breastfeed while recovering from childbirth in hospital has filed a lawsuit, court records indicate.

 

A day after Jennifer Spiegel, 33, gave birth to her son in January 2008, a hospital worker told her “Your baby wants you,” and handed her a newborn to nurse, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Saturday.

 

Read Article:  UPI.Com

 

Family claims house wrongfully demolished

BOLIVAR PENINSULA — A lawsuit accuses the county and its debris-removal contractors of improperly demolishing a custom-built beach house, which Hurricane Ike deposited a half mile inland of it original site.

More than 50 years ago, the father of Thomas Sachitano and Shelby Rabalais, of Beaumont, and Kathryn McCann, of Colleyville, built a Crystal Beach cabin at 901 Sanddollar, the plaintiffs’ attorney, Jessica L. Hallmark, said.

When Hurricane Ike made landfall Sept. 13, 2008, it caused severe flooding and damaged much of the Upper Texas Coast.

 

 

Read Article:  The Galveston News

 

Toyota hit with lawsuits; Kentucky drivers among plaintiffs

Ten drivers of Toyotas in Northern Kentucky and Ohio are suing the automaker, claiming that their cars are given to unwanted acceleration because of unreliable electronic fuel control systems, not sliding floor mats or sticky gas pedals.

 

The lawsuit, one of the first in a nationwide wave of claims against Toyota since it suspended sales and production of eight models to fix faulty accelerators, was filed Feb. 3 in federal court in Covington, Ky., and seeks class-action status.

 

Read Article:  Courier Journal.Com

 

Arkansas: Migrants Win $2.75 Million

An Arkansas tree-planting company has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a lawsuit in which foreign guest workers accused it of often paying less than the minimum wage and not paying for all hours worked. The money will go to 2,200 workers from Mexico and Central America in one of the largest settlements ever reached under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act. The workers, who planted pine seedlings throughout the Southeast, entered the country under a guest worker visa program.

 

Read Article:  The New York Times

 

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