#church-of-scientology-litigation

#church-of-scientology-litigation

Judge Kelley Paul is considering whether to remove District Attorney Jeff Rosen from retrying five activists accused of vandalism, due to allegations of campaign fundraising misconduct.

Judge Jane J. Boyle stated, 'The very nature of the alleged conspiracy does not state an antitrust claim, and the Court therefore has no qualm dismissing with prejudice.'

The law says consent cannot truly be given in those circumstances due to the power imbalance, and it also applies to a professor and a student, or a boss and an employee, or a therapist and a client.

The disgraced actor was due to stand trial again reports the BBC later this year at Britain's High Court. The allegations stemmed from his last criminal trial in the country, which saw Spacey found not guilty of nine charges brought against him by four different men in 2023.

In effect, the Trump administration is attempting to roll back civil rights enforcement in housing at the federal level, and pressure states to weaken their own protections as well. That's not just bad policy, it's unlawful.

Roberts alleges that the girlfriend of David Golden, one of the men she has claimed sexually assaulted her, placed a pill in her mouth and told her it was Adderall. Instead, it was a drug that caused Roberts to black out. While Roberts said she doesn't remember the majority of what happened after blacking out, she said that through the testimony of others at the event, flashes of memory that came back to her and contextual clues, she concluded that she was raped by Golden and another former eXp agent Michael Bjorkman.

In the lawsuit, Valencia resident Parker Seitz alleged that off-duty deputies Randy Austin and Nicholas Hernandez, along with a third man attacked him outside a bar called the Break Room in late November 2024. Seitz said the men had assaulted him, and that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and deputies had violated his civil rights, inflicted emotional stress, defamed him and conspired to keep the matter quiet.

Aidan Romain is accusing Harvard-Westlake school in Studio City; its president, Richard Commons; the head of the boys' water polo program, Jack Grover; and former teammate Lucca van der Woude of allowing a culture of harassment within the elite program. The lawsuit was filed on 27 February in Los Angeles superior court.

This is as egregious an instance of callous corporate indifference to workplace sexual violence that anyone can experience. After two weeks on the job, Doe said that she reported Vichique Maya's conduct to two male supervisors, including Soho House's floor manager and food and beverage director, states the complaint, but neither took any semblance of corrective or investigatory action.

Batman, promoted to senior civil engineer in 2015, supervises the county's flood-control and stormwater facilities from an office in suburban Alhambra, and has an "exemplary" employment record, his lawyers said. They said he was away from work when the county first ordered the flag displayed at all its offices in June 2023, but for the last two years was told by his employers to take the back entrance to the building that month, in order to avoid seeing the flag hanging from the front.

We will almost certainly appeal the denial to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter kicked off the hearing in November with a searing review of the city's "pattern of defiance of settlement agreement and the deadlines contained within it with performance or performative compliance only resulting in the wake of court hearings." Four days of testimony, spread over nearly two months, have produced a striking record of confusion and disagreement over the meaning of basic terms such as "homeless encampment" and "persons served,"

After the longest-operating cafe in L.A. County announced in late December that it would shut down after 139 years, customers of the Original Saugus Cafe began buying up its branded hats, T-shirts, mugs and other merchandise. When the merch sold out, some took to filching from the tables: glassware, salt and pepper shakers, and even utensils. To Jessie Mercado, 31, and her father, Alfredo - who has owned the beloved cafe in Santa Clarita for 30 years - it was amusing and sweet that many held the establishment so close to their hearts that they wanted to take pieces of it home with them.

Jose Juan Rangel and his wife, Maria Vargas Luna, pulled up to a McDonald's drive-through nearly two years ago to order some food when they were approached by a person asking for change. What is a common and usually uneventful interaction in Los Angeles turned into a bloody confrontation with tragic results. According to a lawsuit filed by Rangel against McDonald's last week, he and his wife were attacked by the man and McDonald's employees failed to intervene or call for help.

As The Advocate reports, this week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education and the Trump administration over its threat to withhold $4.9 billion in annual federal education funding unless the state allows local school districts to notify parents of students' social gender transitions, which would violate California law. Last month, U.S. Department of Education (ED)