A presently trending news story that you’re not going to see on your Facebook feed is that the site has been filtering which news stories you see! Gizmodo ran an investigative article yesterday disclosing their interviews with Facebook employees who were “news curators.” These curators are responsible for monitoring which items pop up on the social media…
By Blake Neff A suspended professor at Marquette University has filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming it is illegally trying to fire him simply for expressing conservative views on a private blog. Prof. John McAdams’s troubles began in the fall of 2014 when he posted on his blog Marquette Warrior about an exchange between an…
Chris White The California State Teachers’ Retirement System, or CalSTRS, announced Friday it aims to join a German shareholder group lawsuit aimed at Volkswagen (VW). CalSTRS owned $52 million in the German car producer’s stock as of Dec. 31. After divesting its thermal coal interests in February, CalSTRS has now decided to target one of…
Benjamin Golden believes his rights were violated because while he was beating and assaulting his Uber driver he was being recorded without his consent. Now the former Taco Bell executive is suing the Uber driver he was fired for assaulting. TLR first ran this video when the story broke. The camera captures Golden assaulting Edward Caban,…
Donald Trump has stated he is willing to file a frivolous “birther” lawsuit to challenge Ted Cruz’s birth and his eligibility to be President of the United States. Such a lawsuit sounds awfully like it meets the test of an improper purpose, not warranted by existing law, a baseless argument for an extension of the law, and…
-The Democratic National Committee suspended Bernie Sanders’ campaign from accessing voter information after a campaign staffer accessed data which was supposed to be private to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. -The DNC server is supposed to keep each campaigns data separate. -The staffer was fired and the Sanders campaign maintains they retain no data from Hillary Clinton’s…
Casey Harper A Kansas public school district has said it will no longer allow the Gideons to distribute Bibles after an anti-religion group threatened to sue. The dispute started Nov. 4 when the Gideons continued their annual tradition of visiting Seitz Elementary School in Fort Riley, Kansas, and left Bibles on a table in the hallway…
Blake Neff The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne agreed to pay a professor $875,000 in a settlement Thursday to compensate him for revoking a job offer when his violently anti-Israel tweets were publicized. Last year, Steven Salaita was offered a job by UIUC to be a professor in Native American studies. Salaita accepted the position and resigned his…
Rachel Stoltzfoos Judicial Watch is suing the Obama administration for records related to a current U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services push to get as many immigrants as possible to apply for citizenship. USCIS acknowledged it received a Freedom of Information Act request from Judicial Watch in May for the records, but did not produce the…
From The Farrell File: 16 year-old Meadow Rain Walker, daughter of Fast and Furious star Paul Walker, claimed in a civil lawsuit filed on Monday that her father’s death was the result of faulty designs by Porsche. Walker died November 30th, 2013 in Venice, California when the 2005 Porsche Carrera GT being driven by Roger Rodas lost…