Litigation (Non-Arizona) Archives - Page 14 of 46

Teen Sues School Because It Won’t Allow Her to Play Basketball with Her Service Dog Carrying Two Oxygen Tanks

Daily Herald: A 17 year old girl wanted to play on a basket ball team while she is connected by a plastic tube to an oxygen tank carried by her service dog. “But her family was told it was ‘not appropriate’ for Jenny to be on the basketball court with her service dog and oxygen tank, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday on Jenny’s behalf by Equip for Equality, a legal advocacy organization.”

If the girl played on the team and a player tripped over the dog or the tube and were injured, who do you think would be sued? Both the girl and the school would be defendants in the lawsuit and the school would probably be liable. Wouldn’t all reasonable people say that having the dog and tube connected to the girl on the court creates a dangerous condition and an accident waiting to happen? Guess what the lawsuit is based on? The Americans with Disabilities Act. Do you think that when Congress passed the ADA, they intended it to give the girl the right to play basketball with her service dog in tow?

Muslim Woman Sues Disney for Preventing Her from Wearing a Headscarf While Hostessing

Brietbart: “A Muslim woman is suing Disneyland, accusing the company’s California theme park of discrimination for telling her she could not serve customers if she chose to wear a headscarf.”

Judge Institutes Procedure that May Order Owners of Foreclosed Homes to Pay Neighbors for the Decreased Value of their Homes

NPR: Property owners whose homes are near foreclosed homes got “letters from Cleveland Municipal Housing Court Judge Raymond Pianka telling them that one of the former owners of that empty house, mortgage giant Fannie Mae, had been found guilty of housing code violations. As part of its remedy, the court ordered the company to pay restitution.” See the local newspaper’s editorial “Housing Judge Pianka risks overstepping.”

Woman Charged with Deliberately Causing a Car Accident that Killed Two People Sues the Estate of One of the Deceased

Daily Inter Lake: “Justine Winter — the Evergreen teenager charged with deliberate homicide in the traffic deaths of Erin Thompson and her 13-year-old son — has sued Thompson’s estate and the construction company that built the U.S. 93 overpass at Church Drive where the accident occurred.”

Baseball Fan Injured When Broken Bat Hits Him in Face Sues Mets & Players Claiming Player Should Not Have Used a Maple Bat

Court House News: “Major League ballplayers have switched in droves to maple from traditional ash, and the change has brought ‘a marked increase in incidences where bats broke,’ sending ‘shrapnel’ into the stands ‘at an alarming rate,’ a Mets fan says. James Falzon claims ‘the barrel of a shattered maple bat’ fractured his nose and tore his trachea as his son sat beside him at a Mets game.” Will the wavier stated on the ticket be a defense to the lawsuit? See the complaint,