Tag Archives: lawsuits

According to just-revealed court documents, the Family Research Council fired its abstinence program director after she filed a sexual harassment complaint with Washington DC’s Human Rights Commission. DC Gadfly has the scoop: Moira Gaul had a stellar career at the Family Research Council and amassed a perfect employment record until her run-in with her supervisor, a prominent figure in the …

The Montana state Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling that gay couples are not entitled to the same benefits as married straight couples. The court wrote in Monday’s 4-3 decision the request was “overly broad” and sided with a lower court’s decision last year to dismiss the lawsuit. But the Supreme Court left …

Yesterday Eastern Michigan University settled the lawsuit of a counseling graduate student who was expelled in 2008 after refusing to treat gay clients. The suit was brought in 2009 by the anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund, who represented the student pro bono. The former graduate student Julea Ward will be given a $75,000 settlement from the university. Ward was kicked out of …

A Virginia contractor is suing the woman who posted a negative review of his work on two websites.  The suit claims defamation and seeks $750,000 in damages. In her write-ups on the popular business review sites Yelp and Angie’s List, Perez accused the company of damaging her house, trespassing and stealing jewelry. On Wednesday, Judge Thomas FortKort granted a temporary …

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Today the circuit court of Cook County denied an attempt by the Illinois Family Institute to defend against Lambda Legal’s bid to overturn that state’s ban on same-sex marriage.  Two local churches, the Church of Christian Liberty and the Grace Gospel Fellowship, were also rejected.  Lambda Legal writes via press release: “We are now closer to the day these families …

Pink News reports today that the Rabbinical Council of America has denounced JONAH, the Jewish “ex-gay” group based in New Jersey which was just sued for fraud by the Southern Poverty Law Center. They also want JONAH to remove a letter from their website which claims that the Rabbinical Council has endorsed their work. Their statement: “As rabbis trained in …

The Southern Poverty Law Center today announced that it has filed a lawsuit against an “ex-gay” group, accusing them of fraudulent business practices.  The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), pro bono co-counsel Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and the law firm of Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC filed a lawsuit today against Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH), its …

Today the Supreme Court ordered the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to take another look at Liberty University’s anti-Obamacare lawsuit. The Supreme Court responded to a request from Liberty University, one of the groups that sued over the health care law’s individual mandate in 2010. When the court ruled in June that the mandate was constitutional, it dismissed Liberty’s entire …

Today a Russian court dismissed charges against Madonna brought by a local Orthodox Church group who claimed that her violation of the ban on “promoting homosexuality” would cause the nation’s birth rate to plummet because all the boys would become lustful cockmonsters. Or something. On Thursday a court St Petersburg ruled against the plaintiffs, members of various conservative groups who …

Manhattan’s Sparks Steak House has agreed to pay $600K to male employees who complained that they were sexually harassed by the posh eatery’s male manager. Via press release from the EEOC: According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, 22 male waiters were subjected to harassment based on their sex, chiefly by one male manager, …

As we expected, rather than obey the judge’s order to pay Rachel Maddow’s legal fees after the dismissal of his $50M defamation suit against her, hate group leader Bradlee Dean is filing an appeal of the case. Via a World Net Daily: An appeal is being prepared in a case that alleges MSNBC personality Rachel Maddow defamed a Christian minister …

A tourist has filed a $1M lawsuit against New York City after he was arrested during a “lucky bag” sting in Central Park.  In the operation, police left popular electronics or handbags containing cash on park benches, then lurked nearby to see who would turn the found items in. Yakov Dubin, 49, says he was wrongly collared by police after …

Over the weekend I noted that a special prosecutor from another Virginia county had been appointed to investigate anti-gay hate group leader and Loudoun County Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio. Now we know why. The name of the former FBI agent hired by Loudoun County to lead the investigation of Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio was included on one of Delgaudio’s list of potential …

Back in July, I reported that Minnesota radio host and hate group leader Bradlee Dean had lost his libel suit against Rachel Maddow for reporting that he had called for the executions of homosexuals. The judge also then ruled that Dean must pay Maddow’s legal fees. Today we learn that Dean’s motion to stay the payment order has been denied. …

Virginia-based hate group leader Eugene Delgaudio has filed a motion seeking the dismissal of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s lawsuit for his usage of a gay couple’s wedding photo in anti-gay mailers. Public Advocate, represented by Arrington Law Firm in Centennial, Colo., claimed that the use of the couple’s photograph was fair and protected by the First Amendment. “This case …

An upstate New York man is suing his church after a giant crucifix fell on him, costing him his leg. David Jimenez put all of his faith in a massive marble crucifix, praying to it every day that his wife would be cured of cancer. And she was. The 45-year-old pizza parlor worker was so grateful, he volunteered to clean …

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A gay man is suing his former North Carolina church, claiming that he was imprisoned and abused for four months over his homosexuality. Michael Lowry filed a complaint in February against Word of Faith Fellowship Church, a nondenominational Christian congregation in Spindale that has made national headlines with some of its practices. In a statement given to a sheriff’s department …

Police are investigating after Nick Griffin, the leader of Britain’s far-right National Party, tweeted the home address of the gay couple who just won their suit against a local bed & breakfast for denying them lodging.  Griffin’s tweet threatened that a “justice team” would be visiting the couple’s home.  Via BBC: Two of the posts read: “So Messrs Black & …