Tag: Lawsuit
Lawsuit addresses rights violated by mandate to pay dues to anti-Israel union
Legal action will test the First Amendment question of whether or not it violates an employee’s religious freedom to mandate paying a union that has taken public positions in violation of its worker’s faith-based principles.
Jewish legal...
Judge rejects Farrakhan’s $4.8 billion defamation lawsuit against ADL, SWC
The U.S. Southern District of New York has slapped down an effort by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan against the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Anti-Defamation League.
Judge Denise Cote dismissed on April 5 a $4.8...
Photographer’s award praised by ‘Times’ same day he’s named in lawsuit
Meaghan Looram, director of photography at The New York Times, praised on Feb. 21 the “fearless and compassionate work” of Yousef Masoud, who just won a George Polk Award in Journalism for his photography related to the...
Illinois public defender sues to display photo with gun, Israeli flag in office
An assistant public defender in Cook County, Ill., is suing her employer for the right to display a photo of herself with a gun standing in front of an Israeli flag.
Debra Gassman, who has...
Retired National Guard general seeks $1.6 million damages in retaliatory suit
Disputes between two leaders in California’s National Guard have now resulted in a lawsuit.
Jeffrey Magram, a retired brigadier general in the guard, says he experienced two years of antisemitic commentary from Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers. After...
Nova massacre survivors launch $53.6m lawsuit against the state
Forty-two survivors of Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre at the Supernova music festival at Kibbutz Re'im are suing the Israel Defense Forces, Israel Security Agency and Israel Police for negligence, and are claiming 200 million shekels ($53.6...
Minnesota backs off on challenging religious education
A new law that sought to prevent teenagers attending parochial institutions from participating in Minnesota’s Post Secondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program now will no longer be enforced.
Loe v. Walz included Christian families and schools who jointly opposed...
Jewish family sues Michigan high school for scheduling graduation on Shavuot
For the last decade, the family of 18-year-old Minaleah Koffron says it shared advance notice of Jewish holiday schedules with the Portage Public Schools—a school district in southern Michigan almost halfway between Chicago and...
Bronx Defenders to pay $170,000 to harassed Jewish employee
A legal-aid agency in New York City with a history of anti-Israel bias reached a settlement with a former Jewish employee, who claims that she was harassed and treated so poorly that she had...
Ben & Jerry’s, Unilever fail to settle lawsuit with mediation
Attempts at mediation in the lawsuit filed by the board of ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry’s against its parent company Unilever for transferring the rights to produce its ice-cream in Israel to an Israeli...