Trump, federal tort claims act
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An Ada County Sheriff’s deputy slammed into a car driven by a pregnant woman, injuring her, the woman said in a tort claim.
"Even under the 'narrowest' test for determining whether a claim is for a 'personal injury tort,' assault and battery clearly constitute personal injury torts," said Judge Cynthia A. Norton, who authored the opinion.
The idea of a president convincing his own Justice Department to furnish him with nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in taxpayer cash seems too absurd to take seriously.
Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes has filed a federal claim after she was allegedly assaulted and threatened with arrest by immigration agents at a hospital.
A 24-year-old woman nearly died after she swallowed water tainted with sewage flowing from a pipe that dumped about 85,000 gallons of raw waste into Lake Tahoe’s azure waters, according to documents and the victim.
President Donald Trump’s demand that his own Justice Department hand over $230 million as compensation for federal investigations into his behavior is an unprecedented example of how his past indictment lingers over the presidency.
A tort claim has been filed against state agencies, claiming they failed to protect a child who was allegedly killed by her father in Federal Way.
A lawsuit by actor Alec Baldwin alleging malicious prosecution in the 2021 fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western movie "Rust" has been reinstated and moved to to federal court.
"[The child] was subsequently tortured and beaten to death by her father as direct and proximate result of the gross negligence of DCYF and CPS," the tort says.
Under the Empire State's top court's decision, New York law will continue to prevent recoveries for emotional suffering in medical malpractice claims involving in-utero injuries to a child born alive.