The federal government is seeking to dismiss Alabama’s lawsuit over refugee placement after the failure of a similar lawsuit by Texas. A lawyer for the federal government on June 16 filed a notice of the Texas decision with the court in the ongoing request to dismiss the Alabama case. Both Texas and Alabama sued the federal government over refugee placement….
The state will pay outside legal counsel up to $200,000 to represent Gov. Robert Bentley and his law enforcement chief in a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by the governor’s fired secretary of law enforcement. The legislative Contract Review Committee will review the contracts Thursday. The governor’s office has proposed to pay a private law firm up to $100,000 to represent…
A bench ally of suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has filed a federal lawsuit challenging what he called the state’s unconstitutional restrictions on judges’ speech. Associate Justice Tom Parker filed the lawsuit Wednesday against the state’s Judicial Inquiry Commission. The lawsuit challenges speech restrictions in the canons of judicial ethics. The Southern Poverty Law Center in 2015 filed a…
A federal appeals court has sided with Boeing and one of its suppliers in the whistleblower lawsuit brought by three ex-workers at the aircraft manufacturer’s former plant in Wichita. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed on Monday with a federal judge’s decision that the former workers failed to show Boeing defrauded the U.S. government in a $1.6 billion…
Alabama and 10 other states are suing the Obama administration over a new directive about transgender students in public schools. The lawsuit announced Wednesday also includes Oklahoma, Texas, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Maine, Arizona, Louisiana, Utah and Georgia. The challenge follows a federal directive to U.S. schools this month to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms that…
Kanye West is being sued in New York City by a Hungarian musician who says West sampled his song without permission. Gabor Presser says West’s 2013 album “Yeezus” contains a song called “New Slaves” that sampled a song Presser wrote in 1969. Presser’s lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court. It says one-third of “New Slaves” includes a song Presser…
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is looking to dismiss a lawsuit filed by former law enforcement secretary Spencer Collier. Bentley’s attorneys said in a motion filed Monday that claims Collier makes in his complaint are vague and should be dismissed or clarified. Bentley fired Collier in March and said an internal review found possible misuse of state funds within the Alabama…
The Alabama Education Association (AEA) is filing a lawsuit against the Public Education Employees’ Health Insurance Program (PEEHIP). In the suit, the AEA claims PEEHIP held a “secret meeting” to increase the healthcare premiums of teachers across the state. This increase would offset most, if not all, of the four percent pay raise the State Legislature approved for teachers in the…
New York’s highest court is expected to decide next year whether to dismiss a fraud lawsuit against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump over his former school for real estate investors. The midlevel Appellate Division in March rejected Trump’s request to dismiss the 2013 lawsuit. That court has now granted The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative’s request to file a further appeal….
The Alabama Education Association has filed suit against the state teacher’s insurance board over what AEA attorneys say is a violation of the Open Meetings Act. AEA on Tuesday filed the suit, seeking to invalidate premium increases the Public Education Employees’ Health Insurance Program board voted on in April. The premiums are set to increase on October 1. Board members…
