T.D. Jakes, pastor of The Potter’s House megachurch, has refiled a lawsuit targeting a former member for stalking him, court records show. Jakes first filed documents in Tarrant County last month, alleging that he was being stalked by Karleisha Tarver, an excommunicated member. Then, after a hearing last week, he dropped the […]
*A woman is suing Tyler Perry in Georgia claiming the filmmaker/playwright stole her idea for his theater production of Madea Gets A Job. According to RadarOnline.com, Lisa Daniels filed the civil action on Feb. 5 in a Georgia superior courthouse for theft of a literary piece and/or play. “I was the sole creator of a literary piece ‘Madea Gets a […]
A few women at Bishop Secular‘s church have filed a class action lawsuit against one of the operators at the church. Why? Because he has a…
Almost a year to the day that two unarmed occupants in a car were fatally shot by 13 police officers following a pursuit that ended in East Cleveland, the family of the victims have filed a federal lawsuit against the city “…seeking damages and police reform to protect the public,” according to their attorney David […]
It’s been eight months since Pedro Quezada (pictured right) got lucky by winning the fourth-largest lottery pot in history at a whopping $338 million. Now Quezada is…
photo courtesy of ajc.com The Atlanta-based company behind the Super Soaker water gun and Nerf toy guns has been awarded nearly $73 million in royalties from toymaker Hasbro Inc., according to the law firm King & Spalding. Johnson Research and Development Co. and founder Lonnie Johnson have been in a royalty dispute with Hasbro since […]
A few women at Bishop Secular‘s church have filed a class action lawsuit against one of the operators at the church. Why? Because he has a…
Hurley Medical Center settled a lawsuit with one of its nurses who accused the hospital of allowing a patient to refuse care given by African Americans. The nurse, Tonya Battle, was caring for an infant patient last fall in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Battle says the patient’s father requested that no African Americans care for his […]
My, how the tables have turned. Brian Banks, 27, was once a promising young high school football prospect. His realization of playing at the collegiate level was just beyond reach. Then suddenly, the brakes we’re slammed on his future. Banks’ life as he knew it was brought to ruin by a young female student who accused him of […]
Ever wonder what it’s like to take your mother to court? Well Kobe Bryant knows. The LA Lakers star is locked in a court battle to try and keep his mother from auctioning off memorabilia from his high school days in Pennsylvania and his early NBA career, according to an AP report. It seems a Southern […]
Nine former “American Idol” contestants, who happen to all be black, have hooked up to file a lawsuit against the show. They claim they were kicked to the curb by “Idol” as part of racist plot to boost ratings. NY attorney James H. Freeman wrote a letter to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission […]
A Pentecostal woman in Texas has won a $25,000 settlement against fast-food chain Burger King after she was fired for wearing a skirt to work in August 2010 and refusing to change her clothes. “For 2013 and 2014, defendant agrees to conduct an annual training session for all district managers and general managers for defendant’s Texas Burger […]
