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An Alaska man suing Alaska Airlines over its discriminatory mask policy asked the U.S. District Court here to restrain the carrier from refusing him transportation because he was eating on a recent flight without donning a mask. Peter Menage of Palmer, Alaska, works in the…
Read More Frequent Flyer Suing Alaska Airlines Asks Florida Court To Overturn Banning Him For Eating Without Mask
Laurel Duggan Pro-life activists criticized Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Wednesday comments that fetal pain before 24 weeks was a “fringe” idea. “Modern research is revealing that unborn babies do feel pain at an early stage, and we see that science in action regularly during…
Read More ‘Follow The Science’: Pro-lifers Slam Justice Sotomayor After She Compared Unborn Babies To Braindead People
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FL. – On October 28, a Tampa father filed a pro se lawsuit against Hillsborough County School Superintendent, Addison Davis. The legal complaint addresses the school board’s mask mandate policy. It is alleged the policy secretly provides no mask-wearing exceptions for students suffering…
Read More Alleged Mind Games Cause Suit Against Hillsborough County School Superintendent By Father Of Disabled Son
PINELLAS COUNTY, FL. – A lawsuit has been filed against St. Luke’s Cataract and Laser Institute, St. Luke’s Surgical Center and one of its eye surgeons, Dr. Brandon Rodriguez. The suit was filed in Pinellas County on October 28 by a Canadian couple who resides…
Read More Pinellas County Woman Loses Eye, Sues St. Luke’s Cataract & Laser Institute
TAMPA, FL. – On November 1, a lawsuit was filed in the Hillsborough County courts by an Apple watch customer who allegedly suffered a wrist burn that occurred “suddenly and without warning.” Both Apple, Inc. and Best Buy of Minnesota are co-defendants in the case…
Read More Apple Watch Wrist Burn Results In Florida Lawsuit
Bryan Babb Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed a count of possession of a dangerous weapon by a minor at the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse on Monday. Rittenhouse was 17-years-old when he carried the weapon in question, an AR-15-style rifle, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 25, 2020. Schroeder…
Read More Rittenhouse Trial Judge Dismisses Unlawful Weapon Possession Charge
Bryan Babb Judge Bruce Schroeder corrected the prosecution on the function of a hollow-point round during the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse on Wednesday after prosecutor Thomas Binger described the rounds as being incapable of traveling through the first target to any others. “But it wouldn’t…
Read More ‘You’ve Been Testifying’ Judge Corrects Rittenhouse Prosecutor On Types Of Ammunition
Sebastian Hughes The judge presiding over the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse laid into the prosecution on Wednesday in response to its line of questioning towards the defendant. Prosecutor Thomas Binger asked Rittenhouse about an incident days before the Aug. 25 shooting where the Rittenhouse allegedly…
Read More ‘Don’t Get Brazen With Me’: Judge Shouts, Scolds Rittenhouse Prosecutor In Tense Ten-Minute Courtroom Exchange
Sebastian Hughes The judge presiding over the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse granted the defense’s motion to drop the curfew citation charge on Tuesday. After the prosecution rested its case against Rittenhouse, the defense argued the prosecution had not provided any evidence a curfew had been…
Read More Judge Dismisses Curfew Charge Against Rittenhouse
Ailan Evans Executives of a now-defunct photo app filed an antitrust complaint against Facebook on Thursday alleging the company schemed to end their company. The complaint, filed by executives of a start-up image app called Phhhoto, alleges that Facebook employed anti-competitive business tactics to throttle the smaller…
Read More New Facebook Lawsuit Alleges Tech Giant Conspired To ‘Crush’ Competition