#lies #corruption #fraud #waste #abuse = Musk + DOGE - See How #Musk & #DOGE Team Inflated, Deleted and Rewrote Its Savings Claims - His "wall of receipts" for contracts cancelled is instead a mass falsification and fabrication of inflated savings, non existent savings and just big lies. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/upshot/musk-doge-changes-deletions.html #where is #congress #constitution separation of powers #democracy #courts #lawsuits #politics #maga #firings #federal #government
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From kindergarten through college, Trump regime will screw students by dismantling Department of Education, #Massachusetts and other states charge in suit
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/kindergarten-through-college-trump-regime-will-screw-students
#lawsuits
#Chelsea, #SomervilleMA sue feds over possible cutoff of all federal aid to sanctuary cities
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/chelsea-somerville-sue-feds-over-possible-cutoff
#lawsuits #immigration
To conclude the owner of a building on #Massport land has to pay #Boston taxes, court first had to figure out if the legislature overrode a Bill Weld veto in 1993
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/conclude-owner-warehouse-massport-land-has-pay
#lawsuits
Judge who is familiar with the Constitution says children born here are Americans, just like the 14th Amendment says
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/judge-who-familiar-constitution-says-children-born
#Boston #lawsuits #immigrants #citizenship
Tesla has been suing complaining customers in China for defamation. They’ve won almost every time. Read more from @AssociatedPress
https://flip.it/IX0uCf
#Telsa #Musk #China #Lawsuits #Defamation
#Boston cop who used to stand outside the mayor's house yelling about Covid-19 sues over her firing, says it violated her free-speech and religious rights
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/boston-cop-who-used-stand-outside-mayors-house
Trump suing Des Moines Register, Gannett & Ann Selzer for a poll result that predicted the wrong outcome.
No doubt Trump is filing all these frivolous #lawsuits against #media entities to intimidate & wreak revenge, but also to make money.
He's the ultimate litigation whore:
Trump's record: 4 decades, 4,095 lawsuits.
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Judge rules now retired #CambridgeMA SWAT officer can continue his suit against the city for allegedly disciplining him for buying #guns he thought were no good
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/judge-rules-now-retired-cambridge-swat-officer-can
#Journalists are first, but everyone else is next. #Trump has announced multibillion-dollar #lawsuits against “the enemy camp”: #newspapers and #publishers. His proposed #FBI director is on record as wanting to prosecute certain #journalists. Journalists, publishers, #writers, #academics are always in the first wave. #Doctors, #teachers, #accountants will be next. Authoritarianism is as predictable as a Swiss train. It’s already later than you think. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump #mattgaetz #gabbard
Hacker NewsJudge: Zuckerberg not liable for social media harm to children
https://nypost.com/2024/11/08/business/mark-zuckerberg-not-liable-in-lawsuits-over-social-media-harm-to-children/
#ycombinator #Business #Tech #addiction #children #facebook #instagram #lawsuits #mark_zuckerberg #meta #social_media
#Pepsi #Coke #California #plastic #legal #lawsuits
'Los Angeles County is taking on Pepsi and Coke for their role in plastic pollution.
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the county alleged PepsiCo and Coca-Cola companies have misled the public about the recyclability of their plastic bottles and downplayed the negative environmental and health impacts of plastic disposal.'
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/los-angeles-county-sues-pepsi-coca-cola/62779365
"Trump Files First Election Lawsuit in Chilling Sign of What’s to Come
The election #fraud #lawsuits have started again."
#Harris #RVAT #Politics #News #USA #2024Election #Vote #Polls #Kamala #Walz @KamalaHarrisWin #Fascism #Authoritarianism #MAGA #GOP #Democrats #Dictator #Musk #NAZI #Vitriol #Hatred #Demagogue
https://newrepublic.com/post/187714/donald-trump-election-lawsuit-chilling-sign-pennsylvania
#legal #lawsuits #ElonMusk #Tesla
'The estate of a man who was killed in 2021 after his Tesla crashed and caught fire has asked a federal judge in San Francisco to sanction the electric vehicle maker over stalled efforts to settle a wrongful death lawsuit.
Lawyers for the estate of Charles Leach said in a court filing on Friday night that Tesla violated a court order by failing to send a company official with settlement authority to a mediation hearing last month.'
Mark Elias talks about his law firm's work to defend the vote against MAGA lawsuits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yRHR5geZPE
#Vote #Democracy #Lawsuits #Courts
Concord homeowners lose bid to keep people off a path that has been a public way since before the Revolution - in a decision that hinges in part on a 1763 vote by the Middlesex County Court of General Sessions of the Peace
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/one-does-not-trifle-decisions-middlesex-county
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A group of 16 Japanese young people is suing utility firms over their carbon emissions, in the latest case worldwide of activists using courts to press for action on climate change. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2024/10/18/energy/japan-youth-climate-litigation/ #environment #energy #climatechange #energy #utilities #lawsuits #japanesecourts
The Texas Supreme Court denied Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request to overturn the State Fair’s gun ban — the night before the fair opens.
#News #Texas #AttorneyGeneralOffice #CityOfDallas #CourtsCriminalJustice #Government #KenPaxton #Lawsuits #StateFairOfTexas #TexasNews
#Carlisle residents who were big mad about face masks in 2021 still big mad, hope Supreme Court will listen to them when other courts told them to go away
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/carlisle-residents-who-were-big-mad-about-face
428 #ClimateLegal #Indigenous #Lawsuits
"Indigenous youth are at the center of major climate lawsuits. Here’s why they’re suing."
by Anita Hofschneider for Grist [Audio available] [08-08-'24]
https://grist.org/indigenous/indigenous-youth-are-at-the-center-of-major-climate-lawsuits/
Quotes:
"If I don't do it, who will?"
"On August 8, 2023, 13-year-old Kaliko was getting ready for her hula class at her mother’s house in West Maui. The power was out, and she heard there was a wildfire in Lāhainā, where her dad lived, but she didn’t think much of it. Wildfires happened all the time in the summer."
"Today marks the one-year anniversary of the deadliest wildfire in modern United States history, one that changed Hawaiʻi forever and made Kaliko more determined to defend her community."
"This summer she was part of a group of plaintiffs who forced the state of Hawaiʻi to agree to decarbonize its transportation system, which is responsible for half of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. (Grist is only using her first name because she is a minor and filed the lawsuit without her surname.)"
"“I’m from this place, it’s my main kuleana [a Hawaiian word that connotes both a privilege and responsibility, to her community JdeB] to take care of it like my kupuna have in the past,” she said, referring to her ancestors."
"It’s not just the United States. In 2022, Indigenous youth in Australia won a major victory against a destructive coal project. A few years earlier, Indigenous youth in Colombia joined a broader youth lawsuit that affirmed the rights of the Amazon to protection and conservation."
"To Katy Stewart, who works at the Aspen Center’s Center for Native American Youth, the willingness of Indigenous youth like Kaliko to take the lead in these cases makes sense. Her organization recently surveyed more than 1,000 Indigenous youth and conducted focus groups to learn what they care about. When it came to climate change, emotions ran hot. “What we are seeing and hearing a lot was anger, frustration, and a want to do something,” she said. “It was hopeful to me that there wasn’t sort of a ‘giving up and this is over for us,’ more of, ‘we need to do something because we’re the ones seeing this right now.’”
To Katy Stewart, who works at the Aspen Center’s Center for Native American Youth, the willingness of Indigenous youth like Kaliko to take the lead in these cases makes sense. Her organization recently surveyed more than 1,000 Indigenous youth and conducted focus groups to learn what they care about. When it came to climate change, emotions ran hot.
“What we are seeing and hearing a lot was anger, frustration, and a want to do something,” she said. “It was hopeful to me that there wasn’t sort of a ‘giving up and this is over for us,’ more of, ‘we need to do something because we’re the ones seeing this right now.’”
"When Johnny Juarez from Albuquerque thinks of climate change, he thinks of New Mexico’s oil fields, vast and expansive and dominant in the state’s economy. Juarez is 22, and in the time he’s been alive, the state’s oil production has ramped up 10 times."
“What a just transition looks like to us is centering those families that are going to be most impacted and making sure that they get the support they need,” Juarez said. Juarez has talked a lot about the “just transition” in his job as a community organizer, the concept of moving away from fossil fuels to rely instead on green energy and doing so in a way that respects the rights of marginalized peoples."
"“This was actually a fight that I was really born into,” Juarez said. “The fossil fuel industry and fossil fuel extraction and fracking and oil and gas exploration is really just the next chapter in colonial extractivism in New Mexico.”
"That’s exactly how Beze Gray of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation in Canada feels. In 2019, they joined a group of seven young people, three of whom are Indigenous, who sued the government of Ontario for weakening its climate goals. Gray grew up in the shadow of dozens of chemical plants and oil refineries and saw firsthand how their pollution hurt their community."
"Globally, Indigenous peoples are often the first to experience the effects of climate change because of their dependence on land and water. In the U.S., modern-day reservations are more susceptible than Indigenous traditional homelands to drought and wildfires, extreme weather events expected to worsen as the earth warms."
"“This is just going to keep happening,” she [Kaliko JdeB] thought. The realization is motivating her to join the Department of Transportation’s youth council created by her lawsuit’s settlement so that she can hold the state accountable to its decarbonization promises. “I want to mainly be advocating for my community,” she said. “I don’t think I can imagine myself doing anything else.”
Judge dismisses antisemitism lawsuit against MIT; says school did not promote attacks against Jewish students and professors but rather tried to stop them
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/judge-dismisses-antisemitism-lawsuit-against-mit
Woman lay dying on floor of a Suffolk County jail cell for more than an hour as guards propped their feet up on desks, having a good time chatting, suit charges
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/woman-lay-dying-floor-suffolk-county-jail-cell
#DEI prgms toppled amid a surge of #conservative #lawsuits
A yr after #SCOTUS struck down race-based college admissions, #RightWing *public interest* grps have filed a barrage of federal lawsuits intended to dismantle long-standing #corporate & #government prgms that consider race in awarding #jobs & other #opportunities, & their #litigation already is eroding the use of #AffirmativeAction in an array of #American institutions.
#law #racism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/27/conservative-lawsuits-topple-affirmative-action-dei/
#CambridgeMA, pipeline company agree on plan to remove some #trees on lot near city reservoir in #Lincoln so company can install new equipment next door
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/cambridge-pipeline-company-agree-plan-remove-some
Ticketed at #School as a Teen, a Young Black Woman Is Suing an #Illinois City for Violating Her Civil Rights
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It took four years and a jury trial for Amara Harris to beat the ticket that accused her of stealing another girl’s AirPods.
Now she’s heading back to court in the hope of stopping #schools from using #police to discipline #students.
#News #CivilRights #Lawsuits #Education #LawEnforcement #Law