By Stef Camille Streetgangs.com Staff Writer November 9, 2012 | 11:01 a.m. Allen Harris, a disabled man who suffered a stroke in June of 2009, resulting in semi-paralysis of his left side had his civil rights violated when an LAPD officer forced his semi-paralyzed arm behind his back, slammed him into a wall and handcuffed [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer October 29, 2012 | 2:00 p.m. PST Jayceon Taylor, known by his rap name The Game, 32, is being sued by a another rapper 40 Glocc, 37. Torry Gassway, aka 40 Glocc filed a lawsuit in The Los Angeles County Superior Court for a beat down he received from The Game over [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer October 09, 2012 | 9:58 p.m. PST Former Controller Laura Chick says don’t vote for city attorney, Trutanich. Chick urged voters in an open letter to think twice before re-electing him to a second term. Chick, who supported Trutanich publicly in April 2009, said in a letter Tuesday that she had “made [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer October 08, 2012 | 1:50 p.m. PST Giovanni Ramirez has filed a second Federal lawsuit against the LAPD when they wrongfully accused and arrested him in the Bryan Stowe beating at Dodger’s Stadium. Ramirez’s latest lawsuit is accusing the LAPD of violating his civil rights. His lawsuit claims the police illegally searched [...]
Andrew Blankstein (Los Angeles Times) December 13, 2010 A Los Angeles County Superior judge denied a request Monday by the state to delay its lawsuit against current and former Bell officials because it could interfere with L.A. County’s criminal cases against the troubled city’s current and former leaders. Judge Ralph Dau rebuffed efforts by lawyers [...]
KAREN HAWKINS (Associated Press) December 2, 2010 CHICAGO — A man who spent five years in jail for the Mother’s Day murders of his daughter and her friend before DNA evidence cleared him filed a lawsuit Thursday against several Illinois law enforcement officers, claiming they used physical and psychological torture to coerce a confession. Jerry [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER November 10, 2010 Writer Carlos Moore filed a $5 million lawsuit against producers of the acclaimed musical Fela! yesterday for breaching copyright of his biography on musician Fela Kuti on whom the show is based. Moore is the sole official biographer of Nigerian musician-activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, and he told [...]
UPI.com Sept. 16, 2010 ELGIN, Ill. – A state’s attorney says he is suing reputed gang members in Elgin, Ill., alleging their actions harmed the suburban Chicago city. The lawsuit by Kane County State’s Attorney John Barsanti seeks unspecified monetary damages from 70 alleged Latin Kings members and seeks to bar them from associating with [...]
By Chris Masi STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER September 15th, 2010 A little over a week ago, a record company named Drive-In Music declared a lawsuit against Busta Rhymes and the Leaders of the New School for copyright infringement on one of their nearly two decade old songs. Now they are conjuring up another outdated legal battle [...]
Sun-Times Media Wire Wednesday, September 15th 2010 St. Charles, Ill. – About 70 members of an Elgin street gang have been named as defendants in a civil lawsuit filed by the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office in what authorities say is an effort to deter them from taking part in gang-related activity. The complaint seeks [...]
Robert Faturechi (Los Angeles Times) September 8, 2010 The deputy who arrested Mel Gibson in 2006 for drunk driving sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday, alleging that it retaliated against him because he resisted requests from superiors to remove the actor’s anti-Semitic slurs from an initial arrest report. Deputy James Mee said [...]
By Chris Masi STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER September 3rd, 2010 Dyke and the Blazers is an old funk band that hasn’t been active since 1971, until recently, but their new activity has nothing to do with making new music. They’re coming out of the woodwork to sue Busta Rhymes and the Leaders of the New School [...]
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