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The Mark Hotel lawsuit is a New York defamation case between one of Manhattan’s best-known luxury hotels and Theodore Weintraub. The hotel says Weintraub, who it banned in 2021 after he repeatedly tried to buy alcohol while underage, later organized protests outside the building with signs accusing it of Holocaust denial, supporting Jeffrey Epstein, spreading…
Javits Frimpong, a 15-year-old who moved to New York from Ghana about a year ago, was fatally shot in the abdomen on Thursday morning, October 29, 2026, near East 171st Street and Crotona Place in the Claremont section of the Bronx. Officers from the NYPD’s 42nd Precinct drove him to St. Barnabas Hospital in a…
Dominion Voting Systems’ major defamation lawsuits over 2020 election claims have mostly ended in settlements and dismissals: $787.5 million from Fox News (2023), $67 million from Newsmax (2025), and confidential settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, One America News Network and Mike Lindell. The newest activity is a separate Lindell sanctions appeal tied to Smartmatic,…
On October 28, 2026, Norfolk Superior Court Judge Michael Doolin heard arguments on a motion to dismiss Patrick Clancy’s wrongful death lawsuit against four mental health defendants. He took the motion under advisement and has not ruled. The case is still pending, no settlement has been verified, and none of the allegations has been proven….
If Allstate paid you on an Arizona home or building claim between April 25, 2017 and October 1, 2026 and withheld “nonmaterial depreciation,” you may qualify for money. Most eligible people get 50% of the withheld depreciation that was never paid back, plus 10% simple interest. If all of it was later paid, the payment…
Michigan attorney Gregory J. Rohl has been disbarred, effective October 1, 2026, after entering no-contest pleas in a professional disciplinary proceeding involving $659,821.44 in court-ordered distributions from a wrongful-death settlement. The money was intended for the surviving children of Lilliana Kerr, a 3-year-old girl killed in a 2017 preschool accident in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. The…
Former NFL running back Merril Hoge can keep pursuing two claims against Monsanto over his alleged Roundup exposure, but a federal judge has thrown out his failure-to-warn claim. In an October 1, 2026 decision, U.S. District Judge David C. Nye of the District of Idaho let Hoge’s negligence and strict-liability design-defect claims move toward trial….
A New York judge has dismissed the remaining claims in Morgan Carey’s defamation lawsuit against his sister, Mariah Carey, over her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey. On Monday, October 19, 2026, Justice Leslie A. Stroth of the New York State Supreme Court, New York County, ruled that Morgan had not sufficiently pleaded actual…
Aaron Carter’s estate has settled its wrongful death claims against Walgreens and Santa Monica Medical Plaza Pharmacy. A court filing dated October 15, 2026, reported by Billboard and Rolling Stone, says the parties reached a settlement resolving all claims between the estate and the two pharmacies. The terms are confidential, so the amount has not…