By TREVON MILLIARD
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

For years, Elizabeth Moore couldn’t get a straight answer from Variety School staff about the bruises on her son’s body and the cuts to his face.

“We didn’t know what to do. He was getting off the bus like this,” said the mother and gynecologist whose son, Dennis Moore, is mute and autistic.

Her frustration with the lack of answers led her to file a lawsuit against the Clark County School District in 2012.

As her lawyers built the case, an eyewitness testified that when Dennis was 9 years old, he was kicked in the chest by his special education teacher, which sent him head-first into a concrete wall.

Now 13, Dennis still bears a scar on the back of his head from hitting an electrical outlet on that concrete wall. A brain scan showed evidence of permanent brain trauma.

And that was just the worst of the abuse Dennis suffered in his three years at Variety, a school for special education students, Moore said. She relied…

That’s what Josh Tetrick, founder and chief executive of Hampton Creek in San Francisco, feels like he’s facing in a lawsuit filed against his vegan start-up by multinational food giant Unilever.

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Nov. 10, 1:15 p.m.: An earlier version of this post misspelled Hampton Creek CEO Josh Tetrick’s last name as Petrick.
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The $67.4-billion company says Tetrick’s firm is engaging in false advertising by describing its Just Mayo sandwich spread as mayonnaise, even though it contains no eggs.

“Big Mayo strikes,” said Tetrick, who believes his company is absolved of false advertising claims because his spread uses the colloquialism “mayo” and not “mayonnaise.” U.S. Food and Drug Administration guidelines for mayonnaise contain egg yolk.

Tetrick said Hampton Creek plans to file a countersuit in the coming weeks that would likely focus on Unilever’s sustainability practices.

Unilever is seeking compensation for lost profits and damages and demanding that Hampton Creek refrain from declaring Just Mayo superior in taste to Unilever’s Best Foods and Hellman’s brands of mayonnaise.

“We brought this lawsuit because use of the Just Mayo name blatantly misleads consumers,” a Unilever spokesperson said in an e-mailed statement.  “In fact, the product is Just NOT Mayo as it does…

Two staffers say there was a sexual harassment emergency — in the Lenox Hill Hospital emergency room.

Eliana Misas and Rhonda McIntosh charge in papers filed in Manhattan Federal Court that a boss made gross comments to them on the job and made their lives hell after they blew the whistle.

The harassment began in July 2012 when the registrars’ boss, Julio Cardoza, allegedly showed the pair pornographic images on a separate supervisor’s computer.

Once the staffers filed a complaint about the porn leading to the supervisor’s termination, Cardoza began his own campaign of harassment, court documents charge.

Cardoza sent McIntosh, 45, lewd messages about her needing a “spanking” according to documents.

Once, when McIntosh wrote Cardoza that she was under the weather and wouldn’t be able to come into work, he replied “You need a Spanish/Italian sausage all the way,” court papers charge.

“What they did is disgraceful,” said Richard Roth, referring to both bosses.

“And what’s more upsetting…is that they prolonged it. They continued to retaliate against these women.”

Both staffers were subjected to unfair reviews, denied extra hours and assigned…

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Remedy: Replace

Consumer Contact: Aqua Lung toll-free at (855) 355-7170 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. PT Monday through Friday or www.aqualung.com and click on Recall Notice for more information.

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Recall Details

Units: About 30,000 in the United States and 11,300 in Canada (an additional 110,000 were previously recalled in the U.S. in March 2013)

Description: This recall involves all Aqua Lung buoyancy compensator vests with SureLock II rubber handles attached to the weight pockets, including those with SureLock II handles that were replaced in the previous recall. The handles are gray rubber, measure about 2 inches tall by 4 inches wide and extend from the…

According to the settlement agreement The Atlanta Journal-Constitution obtained on Wednesday, the money will be paid to Damion MacClain’s family in exchange for dropping the lawsuit they brought, blaming the state prison system for MacClain’s death on Dec. 26, 2013, death.

The agreement says the settlement is not an admission of liability but was made “to seek peace and secure resolution and to terminate further controversy.

MacClain’s was one of three deaths in five months at the northwest Georgia prison. At the time, Hays was becoming increasingly dangerous because faulty locks allowed inmates to leave their cells and roam at will. MacClain’s family said that was how other inmates were able to attack him in his bed.

According to the suit brought on behalf of the MacClain family by the Southern Center for Human Rights, prison officials knew conditions at Hays had deteriorated to a level that allowed stabbings, beatings, and assaults on inmates and officers.

Prison audits in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 all reported cell door locks at Hays could easily be circumvented. Yet prison officials did not fix the locks or find a way to control the movements of the inmates…

State Rep. John E. Barnes wanted to talk to the Democratic House leader about his committee assignments after the 2010 election, but he says that he was instead told to make that request through the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus.

Barnes is black, but the Cleveland Democrat said he did not see any value in joining the Black Caucus. He called the organization’s “moral compass” troubling, and he “wanted to be treated as an individual rather than as a member of a presumed monolithic block of votes based upon his skin color.”

White Democrats, Barnes said, could simply let their committee preferences be known, while black lawmakers had to go through the Black Caucus.

“There should not be a process where there’s a certain procedure that John has to follow because he’s an African-American legislator,” Barnes told reporters yesterday as he discussed an unusual defamation lawsuit he filed this week against the Ohio Democratic Party and its outgoing chairman, Chris Redfern.

“I understand the focus is, you want to have people where you can manage them like they’re on a plantation. That’s…