Lawsuits

The District paid a six-figure settlement after a senior citizen claimed her civil rights were violated

The head of the preschool program at the Washington Hebrew Congregation has been placed on administrative leave after several parents of toddlers filed a lawsuit against the congregation, alleging Edlavitch Tyser Early Childhood Center…

The director of a preschool ensnared in multiple D.C. government investigations and a lawsuit has been placed on administrative leave amid allegations that a teacher at the school sexually abused toddlers.

The family of a driver who died in a crash with a speeding fire truck is suing D.C.’s Fire and Emergency Medical Services department.

The case hinges on an alleged promise and two pieces of paper Wiedmaier can't find.

The families of eight former students at Washington Hebrew Congregation’s preschool are suing the early childhood center, alleging that the school allowed the “prolonged and repeated” abuse of three- and four-year-old children in their…

Multiple families are suing the Washington Hebrew Congregation, alleging that the synagogue’s preschool and its director ignored warning signs of sexual abuse happening on the campus over a two-year period.

A group of parents is suing the preschool at Washington Hebrew Congregation, alleging that the school ignored warning signs while a teacher sexually abused at least seven toddlers for more than a year.

A small increase in income can have devastating consequences for seniors relying on Medicaid for their care. These lawsuits say that’s illegal.

A lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleges that a D.C. police officer and a U.S. Marshal groped a transgender man, fondled his genitals to “determine his anatomical gender,” and held him in lockup…

The family of 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson, who was fatally shot last year while heading to an ice cream truck, filed a lawsuit against the D.C. Housing Authority, alleging that it failed to provide adequate security at the public housing…

The Washington Post is seeking to have a Covington Catholic student’s $250 million libel lawsuit thrown out, arguing in court filings that the paper’s coverage of Nicholas Sandmann’s chaotic viral encounter at the Lincoln Memorial in…

The widow of a man killed in a gruesome hatchet attack in Tennessee has filed a wrongful death suit against the D.C. Department of Corrections and a Southeast Washington halfway house.

Makiyah, just a fifth-grader, died in the shooting at Clay Terrace in Northeast DC in July 2018.

A Northwest D.C. senior living facility is facing a $1 million negligence lawsuit for delays in reporting an alleged sexual abuse incident involving a woman with dementia and a construction worker.

Karl Racine is going after bad landlords, and housing advocates are happy to see it.

Six current and former employees of the Long Branch Housing Authority filed a lawsuit against the agency on Feb. 22 in Essex County, New Jersey, alleging that its former chief of staff repeatedly engaged in sexual propositioning and…

But good luck trying to access the video, or police records on any councilmember, for that matter.

In May 2014, the administration of then-Mayor Vincent Gray selected a team led by the Peebles Corp. to develop the D.C.-owned lot at Fifth and Eye streets NW. Peebles was chosen in part, the announcement declared, because it bid the…

The D.C. Attorney General’s Office on Monday sued a man who recruited foreign teachers to work in District schools, saying he charged teachers high fees for services he did not provide and threatened them with deportation if they didn’t…