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A Judge Rules Flint Residents Can Sue Over Water Crisis! A judge ruled today that the residents of Flint, Michigan can move forward with lawsuits filed against the federal government due to the ongoing water crisis. This motion is a huge victory in the fight for justice for residents who have had their water supply […]

The 614

Three additional wrongful death lawsuits were filed Tuesday against Mount Carmel Health System, its former Dr. William Husel and nurses and pharmacist. Its now been 19 wrongful death lawsuits filed in wake of the scandal at Mount Carmel in which 34 patients are believed to have received excessive doses of pain medications. Most of the […]

National

The reality of frivolous lawsuits is that they rarely yield the desired results of the plaintiff, and a judge in Ohio found a clever way to dismiss one such case last week. Franklin County Judge David E. Cain wrote a legally-themed poem to dismiss a $2 million lawsuit filed by inmate Darek Lathan, who soiled his […]

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The success of Empire had so many people coming out of the woodworks, trying to claim a spot in their pot. First, it was 50 Cent who…

With rappers being sued left and right for sample clearance issues and adopted monikers, it’s a change to see one taking someone else to court.…

It was all good just a Tweet ago. Music stars Future and Drake were set to hit the road together on a 39-city “Do You…

Black Music Month

In the immortal words of NFL great Dion Sanders, “Must be the money.” There’s plenty of money floating around in the world of entertainment, so…

Suge Knight has dropped his appeal in his lawsuit against Kanye West stemming from injuries Knight sustained due to a shooting at a party West threw in 2005. Details of the settlement are confidential.

Prince is being sued by New York based law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler for unpaid legal fees dating back to 2006. The firm handled Prince’s 2006 divorce from Manuela Testolini.

T.I. is being sued by the family of a man whose dead body was shown on the rapper’s now defunct reality show, “Road To Redemption.”  The MTV show was meant to show youths the consequences of criminal activity.

Famed fashion photographer David LaChapelle is suing Rihanna over her “S&M” video which the photog says was “directly derived” from several of his original works, according to Reuters.

Jim Jones is being sued by two women who appeared topless in the music video for his song “Summer Time.”  Sharie Johnson and Samantha Stotts claim that Jones’ film crew caught their topless beach antics on tape and used it to promote his song.