Never backing down from your fight
A number of ex-wrestlers with World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) have filed a lawsuit against their employer. The former pro wrestlers are seeking damages for head trauma suffered in the wrestling ring. The class action lawsuit names the WWE and the company’s long-time owner Vince McMahon as defendants. The suit was filed in US District Court in Connecticut, with the plaintiffs electing…
Matt Graves and Melissa Graves, the parents of a young boy who was killed by an alligator last month at the Disney World Resort in Florida, do not plan to file a lawsuit against Disney. The news that the family is not planning to sue came as quite a surprise to many legal experts and commentators who had been paying…
PF Chang’s, the popular restaurant chain with a line of frozen food meals distributed in grocery stores across the US, recently expanded its recall of certain frozen food products. The product recall was initially limited to fewer than 4,000 pounds of PF Chang’s frozen food meals, but the company’s distributor had to expand the recall to more than 195,000 pounds of PF…
Abuse of prescription drugs can lead to heart attacks and other potentially fatal consequences, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The study comes at a time when prescription drug addiction and abuse have generated a lot of media coverage and headlines as more and more people are dying as a result of…
The case of a Bucks County PA man who allegedly held 12 girls in captivity at his home and sexually assaulted at least one of them has garnered national media coverage. The suspect, a 51-year-old man named Lee Kaplan, was arrested after local law enforcement found the victims in his residence. The suspect and the victims reportedly lived in the house, which…
The men allegedly responsible for brutally gunning down a pregnant woman, her unborn child, and four other people at a March 2016 backyard party in Wilkinsburg PA, which is just outside Pittsburgh, have finally been criminally charged. A total of 15 people are attending the backyard barbecue when the two suspects allegedly burst into the party and started firing gunshots. The suspects…
In a ruling that figures to be highly analyzed given the recent mass shooting at an Orlando, Florida nightclub, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to NY and Connecticut gun control laws that ban certain types of assault weapons. As a result, these gun laws should remain in effect. The state laws prohibited the sale and/or possession of…
A recent incident at the Cincinnati Zoo generated both fascination and outrage as video footage of a young boy trapped in a gorilla enclosure circulated on the Internet. The video images show a small child inside the gorilla area and hovered over by Harambe, a massive 450-pound gorilla. Ultimately, zoo officials believed that they had little choice but to shoot,…
A sexual assault case in Palo Alto, California is getting national attention after a convicted rapist received what many believe is a far-too-lenient sentence. Brock Turner, the 20-year-old defendant in the sex crime case, was a promising swimmer who attended Stanford University. During his freshman year of college, Turner went to a fraternity party and ended up sexually assaulting a female partygoer.…
Although people tend to think of cocaine addiction as a problem that merely affects the user, data indicates that global cocaine trafficking has resulted in a significant number of homicides, suggesting the large scope of the impact of drug crimes. The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) recently released the figures on “the human effect that comes…