Lawsuit by New Orleans Truck Attack Victims Says City, Contractors Failed to Implement Safety System

Six people who were injured and the father of a man who was killed in the New Year’s truck attack filed a lawsuit Thursday against the City of New Orleans and two contractors, claiming they failed to protect revelers from an Army veteran who sped around a police blockade and raced down Bourbon Street, killing […]
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit to Have Confederate Name Restored to Ranger Memorial at Fort Moore

A lawsuit filed by the Columbus-based National Ranger Memorial Foundation to restore the name of a Confederate officer to the memorial and to the elite Army unit’s hall of fame at Fort Moore has been dismissed. U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land issued the order Monday to grant the U.S. Department of Defense’s motion to […]
Judge Declares Mistrial After Jury Deadlocks in Lawsuit Filed by Former Abu Ghraib Prisoners

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after a jury said it was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict in the trial of a military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq two decades ago. The mistrial came in the jury’s eighth day […]
Army Corps of Engineers Failed to Protect Dolphins in Spillway Openings, Lawsuit Alleges

The Army Corps of Engineers failed to protect bottlenose dolphins and other marine life in the Mississippi Sound and Lake Borgne by opening the Bonnet Carre Spillway in 2019 without obtaining proper permits under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Mississippi. The suit was filed by the cities of Biloxi, D’Iberville, […]
Tripler Hospital Settles Malpractice Lawsuit for $9.5M After Army Wife’s Botched Surgeries Led to Death

The U.S. government will pay $9.5 million to a military family to settle a medical malpractice judgment for a “botched gastric bypass surgery” in 2020. In November 2020, Julie Bond, a 31-year-old Army wife, underwent a laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure at Tripler Army Medical Center after being referred to the hospital’s bariatric surgery program by her primary care physician at […]
Army Officer Pepper-Sprayed During Traffic Stop Asks for New Trial in Lawsuit Against Police

RICHMOND, Va. — A U.S. Army lieutenant who was struck, pepper-sprayed and handcuffed during a traffic stop in Virginia asked a federal appeals court on Monday to overturn rulings by a trial judge after jurors found mostly in favor of the two police officers he sued. Video of the December 2020 encounter between Lt. Caron Nazario […]
Virginia Lawsuit Stemming from Police Pepper-Spraying an Army Officer Will Be Settled

RICHMOND, Va. — A town in Virginia has agreed to independent reviews of misconduct allegations against its police force to settle a lawsuit filed after a Black and Latino Army lieutenant was pepper sprayed during a traffic stop. The town of Windsor also agreed to more officer training as part of a settlement agreement signed […]