Tag Archives: Lawsuit

U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to sue the BBC for an eye-popping $1 billion US has upped the ante in what was already shaping up as an existential crisis for Britain’s public broadcaster.  In a letter to British MPs on Monday and later in a media interview, BBC chair Samir …

A woman from Tataskweyak Cree Nation is suing the City of Winnipeg and two police officers after her common-law partner died following an encounter with Winnipeg police. Elias Whitehead, 37, was involved in an encounter with officers near the intersection of Sherbrook Street and Broadway in Winnipeg on Oct. 15, …

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from young climate activists seeking to block U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders promoting fossil fuels and discouraging renewable energy. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen said the plaintiffs showed overwhelming evidence climate change affects them and that it will worsen as a …

A southern Manitoba principal is suing a parent who sought to have books removed from school libraries, saying the woman wrote defamatory social media posts insinuating the principal promoted the dissemination of child pornography. Carman Collegiate principal Mary Reimer says Raelyn Fox has continued to target the Prairie Rose School …

A Muslim charity’s lawsuit alleges a landlord cancelled a new lease agreement with the organization after a Hamilton pastor — with a church that would be sharing the space — made Islamophobic comments during a recent service.  The Toledo Foundation was hoping the new space would host its Islamic school and said the cancellation has impacted dozens of children …

U.S. President Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and four of its journalists on Monday, according to court documents. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Florida names several articles and one book written by two of the publication’s journalists and published …

The Donald Trump administration, stepping up its crackdown on policing in the U.S. capital, has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to be Washington’s “emergency police commissioner,” with all the powers of the police chief — a significant move that the D.C. attorney general said was unlawful. U.S. …

Billionaire businessman Frank Stronach, who is awaiting trial on more than a dozen charges related to sexual assault, is now also facing a civil lawsuit from a woman who alleges he sexually assaulted her decades ago when she was a student sponsored by Magna, the auto parts company he founded. …

A New Mexico judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by actor Alec Baldwin for malicious prosecution and civil rights violations in the 2021 fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the western movie Rust. The judge, in a ruling made public Wednesday, dismissed the case without prejudice for …

CBS parent company Paramount on Wednesday settled a lawsuit filed by U.S. President Donald Trump over an interview broadcast in October, the latest concession by a media company to a president who has targeted outlets over what he describes as false or misleading coverage. Paramount said it would pay $16 …