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Homestead charter school faces sex assault lawsuit

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Jeffrey Herman — who has filed hundreds of similar lawsuits nationwide against schools, the Archdioceses of Miami and the Boy Scouts of America — announced the lawsuit Thursday.

“We are working with the authorities on this, but we’re not in a place where we can talk about it,” said school spokeswoman Colleen Reynolds.

According to the suit, the victim was pulled out of a school bathroom by one of the accused attackers. She was taken to the locker room where she was forced to perform oral sex on the football player.

Another boy arrived in the locker room. He had keys to the office of the school’s dean of students, which the suit says, the student claimed to have retrieved from the dean himself. The two accused perpetrators took the girl into the dean’s office, where they both sexually assaulted her, the suit alleges.

“Getting the keys to the dean’s office is inappropriate. They shouldn’t have access to private, secure locations like that,” Herman said. “The only reason they would get that, we believe, is because of their status as football players.”

The suit claims the attack happened in April during school hours. The alleged victim eventually told her mother about the incident, and a police investigation has been opened, Herman…

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Porsche to replace hood lock bracket on 4,428 two-door vehicles worldwide

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The issue was discovered during routine in-house quality checks and was immediately corrected in production. The owners of the identified vehicles will be notified within 60 days. These customers will be asked to make an appointment as soon as possible with their authorized Porsche dealer to have the recall performed. No costs will be incurred to replace this part, and the appointment will take approximately half an hour.

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Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), based in Atlanta, Ga. is the exclusive U.S. importer of Porsche 918 Spyder, 911, Boxster and Cayman sports cars, the Macan and Cayenne SUVs and Panamera sports sedan. Established in 1984, it is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Porsche AG, which is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. PCNA employs approximately 270 people who provide parts, service, marketing and training for 189 dealers. They, in turn, work to provide Porsche customers with a best-in-class experience that is in keeping with the brand’s 66-year history and leadership in the advancement of vehicle performance, safety and efficiency.

At the core of this success is Porsche’s proud racing heritage that boasts some 30,000 motorsport wins to date.

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Georgia Judge Dismisses Lawsuit on Voter Registration

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Acting one week before Election Day in a state with closely contested races for governor and a seat in the United States Senate, a Georgia judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit that accused election officials of failing to fully process thousands of pending voter registration applications.

Judge Christopher S. Brasher, of the Fulton County Superior Court, said in a 14-page ruling that he believed state and county officials were complying with the Georgia elections standards that govern voter registration.

Judge Brasher, who sits in Atlanta, issued his decision four days after he heard oral arguments in the litigation filed by the NAACP and the New Georgia Project, an officially nonpartisan group founded by the state House’s Democratic leader, Stacey Abrams.

The organizations contended in their lawsuit that the Georgia secretary of state, Brian P. Kemp, and certain county election boards had not properly handled applications from more than 40,000 residents, many of them minorities and young people.

The groups argued that regulators did not quickly process applications and had not contacted prospective voters who submitted incomplete forms.

The organizations alleged that the decisions essentially amounted to a lockout from the polls for thousands of Georgians.

But Judge Brasher wrote: “Not only is there no proof that the respondents have failed to fulfill their duties, but there is also affirmative proof to the contrary. The secretary of state and the county registrars…

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Lawsuit Contends Consultant Misled Detroit Pension Plan

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Updated, 8:06 p.m. | With the nation’s states and cities slowly sinking in a $3 trillion pension hole, the professionals who advise their pension plans have long wondered whether the fingers of blame might eventually point to them.

One of those fingers has surfaced in bankrupt Detroit, and it is singling out Gabriel Roeder Smith & Company, a top actuarial consultant for public pensions, which has hundreds of clients across the country that rely on it to keep track of data, calculate required annual contributions and advise on key assumptions like future investment returns.

Detroit has been a client of Gabriel Roeder since 1938, when the city first started offering pensions. Now the city is bankrupt, the pension fund is short, benefits are being cut and one of the system’s roughly 35,000 members, Coletta Estes, is suing the firm, contending it used faulty methods and assumptions that “doomed the plan to financial ruin.”

Gabriel Roeder’s job was to help Detroit’s pension trustees run a sound plan, she says, but instead the firm covered up a growing shortfall and encouraged the trustees to spend money they did not really have. Her complaint contends that the actuaries did this knowingly, “in concert with the plan trustees to further their self-interest.” The lawsuit seeks to…

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NBCUniversal agrees to settle ‘Saturday Night Live’ interns’ lawsuit

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NBC-Universal settles Saturday Night Live intern lawsuit

NBCUniversal and a group of former “Saturday Night Live” interns have reached an agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit contending the interns should have been paid for their work.

The $6.4million settlement, subject to court approval, will be shared by thousands of “SNL” interns who worked in New York and California.

In documents filed with New York’s Southern District Court, lawyers for the plaintiffs said Comcast-owned NBCUniversal had agreed to special bonuses for the litigants who led the class-action lawsuit, first filed in July 2013.

While those individuals would receive $5,000 to $10,000 each, other unpaid interns who qualify to be included in the settlement may see as little as $500 apiece.

The plaintiffs and their attorneys had contended that the internships involved doing work that would ordinarily be done by paid workers, by “improperly classifying them as non-employee interns exempt from federal and state minimum wage … requirements.”

NBC declined to comment.

The original complaint involved New York interns Jesse Moore and Monet Eliastam, and grew to include plaintiffs from other states.

The interns asserted that the work they did on the late-night comedy paid them “no compensation or compensation at a rate less than the applicable…

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More lawsuits filed against Honda, Takata over air bags

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DETROIT (Reuters) – The recall crisis involving Takata-made air bags exploding with too much force and spraying vehicle occupants with metal shrapnel is growing, with two more lawsuits filed over accidents in older Honda cars.News of the lawsuits came a day after Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) on Monday recalled 247,000 vehicles in the United States because of potentially defective air bags made by Takata Corp (7312.T). Also on Monday, U.S. safety regulators urged consumers affected by similar recalls to have their cars’ air bags replaced as soon as possible.

That news dragged Takata’s shares down 23 percent on Tuesday in Tokyo, the stock’s biggest one-day drop ever. The shares have declined 44 percent so far this year.

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee said on Tuesday it was seeking information about Takata’s air bag defects from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and automobile manufacturers.

Democratic Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, where some of the air bag incidents have occurred, wrote to NHTSA Deputy Administrator David Friedman urging the agency to further expand the recalls.

“NHTSA should ensure that owners of cars that are not registered in Florida, but spend a substantial portion of the year operating in the state of Florida are covered by the recall,” Nelson wrote.

He was referring to “snowbirds,” people who spend winters in Florida to escape the cold in the northern part of the United States.

In his letter to…

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