In 1999, my mother went to the ER with severe bleeding. The attending physician diagnosed her with an unusually heavy menstrual cycle, and a UTI. He wrote her a prescription for antibiotics and sent her home. I guess I should mention that she was uninsured at the time. The symptoms did not clear up when…
Category Archives: Discrimination
CA Board of Education sued over exit exam
From the LA Times website: A group of high school students and their parents filed a class-action lawsuit today against the State Board of Education on behalf of the tens of thousands of California students who have failed the exit exam required to graduate. The suit seeks a court order allowing students in this year’s…
Jury Awards $172M to CA Wal-Mart Employees
Breaking news from the Associated Press: OAKLAND, Calif. – A California jury on Thursday awarded $172 million to thousands of employees at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. who claimed they were illegally denied lunch breaks. The world’s largest retailer was ordered to pay $57 million in general damages and $115 million in punitive damages to about 116,000…
College fees in California challenged
“A group of out-of-state college students filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday challenging a law that lets some illegal immigrants who graduate from California high schools pay lower in-state fees at the state’s public colleges and universities.” The 2002 law allows students who attend at least three years of high school in California to qualify for…
Best Buy class action might be coming soon
AP is reporting that Best Buy is now facing allegations of employment discrimination. SAN FRANCISCO – Six former and current employees of Best Buy Co. Inc. have sued the electronics retailer, alleging the company has purposefully excluded women and minorities from top-paying jobs as part of a sales culture catering to white men. The civil…
Case on inmate’s abortion certified as a class action
The latest on inmate abortions in Missouri: KANSAS CITY (AP) – More than five weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court said Missouri had to let a pregnant inmate have an abortion, the question of whether other state prisoners can get abortions on demand is far from settled. U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple this week certified…
Florida families suing over Medicaid
Mark Hollis of the Orlando Sentinel reports that families in Florida are suing over Medicaid: Five Florida families filed a lawsuit in federal court in Miami on Monday demanding reform of the state’s Medicaid system and alleging that thousands of poor and disabled children aren’t getting the preventive health-care services to which they’re entitled. The…
Judge OKs class action suit against tech school
David Wickert of The News Tribune is reporting that a judge in Pierce County, Washington has “cleared the way for a class action lawsuit against a for-profit career school that closed last March amid allegations it preyed on low-income students.” Friday’s ruling means thousands of former students of the Gig Harbor-based Business Computer Training Institute…
ACLU files class action over right of parolees to vote
The Colorado constitution bars prisoners from voting while they’re in prison… but only while they’re in prison. So why does a state law keep those on parole from voting as well? DENVER — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging a state law barring thousands of people on parole from voting…
Court says Indian money accounting impossible
AP writer Jennifer Talhelm reports that “A federal appeals court decided Tuesday that it was unreasonable to require a detailed historical accounting of money the government has been managing for American Indians, saying the bookkeeping chore would “take 200 years.”” Here are some excerpts: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided…