Home Page Lawsuits Filed A former employee of the San Francisco NikeTown Store has filed a wages and overtime class action complaint against Nike alleging that the sporting goods manufacturer failed to compensate him for overtime, meals and rest breaks as well as any additions shifts he worked. The employment lawsuit was filed by Webster [...]

Lawyers for convicted cop killer Marco Antonio Topete have produced a statement from a Yolo County juror challenging assertions that a juror dismissed from death-penalty deliberations in the case for her limited understanding of English had any problems with the language. Instead, Juror No. 6 whose name is redacted in court files said in his [...]

The city of San Jose is offering an olive branch to the Occupiers. If members of the group agree not to set up tents on the City Hall plaza for the next two years, the city will drop all civil charges against them. That’s the essence of the “civil compromise” sent Monday by Senior Deputy [...]

Andrew Breitbart, the right wing extremist posing as a media mogul, actually got someone fired who deserved it Instead of Shirley Sherrod or hundreds of thousands of ACORN workers losing their jobs, Chris Barron is about to “step down” as Chairman of GOProud, after they outed a Rick Perry operative Jewelry from the late Elizabeth Taylor sells [...]

Five years after a controversial indoor smoking ban went into effect, nearly $2 million remains unpaid in the state from businesses fined for violating the law. Despite enforcement efforts of the Smoke-Free Workplace Act — being challenged in Ohio Supreme Court by a Columbus bar saying it’s unconstitutional — less than half of fines have [...]