Metro Briefing | New York: Brooklyn: Lawsuit Filed Over Sean Bell Shooting (New York Times)

The fiancée of a man killed in a police shooting hours before their wedding last fall filed a wrongful-death suit yesterday, saying that the shooting was caused by poorly trained officers who recklessly opened fire outside a Queens strip club. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court, names the city and the five officers involved in the fatal shooting of the man, Sean Bell, 23, on Nov. 25. …

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Court limits stylist’s lawsuit against Jamie Foxx (Toronto Star) LOS ANGELES – A stylist who claims Jamie Foxx failed to pay for her services cannot expand her lawsuit against the actor to include allegations he mistreated her, a judge ruled Monday. [News Source]

U.S. backs lawsuit against Wayne (The Record) Federal justice officials are backing a lawsuit by an Albanian Muslim group that claims the township discriminated against it by trying to take its property even as it sought to build a mosque in town. [News Source]

Lawsuit Says VA Fails Soldiers (New London Day)

San Francisco — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was accused Monday in a lawsuit of “shameful failures” in providing medical and mental health care to injured servicemen returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Lawsuit: VA failing returning troops (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) By HENRY WEINSTEIN SAN FRANCISCO -- The Veterans Affairs Department was accused Monday in a lawsuit of "shameful failures" in providing medical and mental healthcare to injured vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. According to a 73-page lawsuit, which is proposed for class-action status on behalf of hundreds of thousands of vets, "The VA's outmoded systems for providing medical care and ... [News Source]

Talks fail to settle superintendent lawsuit (Birmingham News) Efforts to settle a lawsuit contesting the hiring of Fairfield schools Superintendent Anthony Greene failed Monday as members of the school board rejected the idea of conducting a search. [News Source]

Judge criticizes fees in lawsuit (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)

An N.C. judge has harshly criticized the settlement of a class action lawsuit in which a Wilmington lawyer and colleagues received $950,000 in fees while injured consumers across the country were reimbursed a total of $2,402. Superior Court Judge Ben Tennille decried the excessive fees and the lack of effort made to reach customers who had been overcharged for wheel alignments at Sears automotive …

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Los Angeles judge rules stylist can’t expand lawsuit against Jamie Foxx (CP via Yahoo! Canada News) LOS ANGELES (AP) - A stylist who claims Jamie Foxx failed to pay for her services cannot expand her lawsuit against the actor to include allegations he mistreated her, a judge ruled Monday. [News Source]

Patterson kin plans lawsuit in fatal crash (Detroit News) FLINT -- A lawsuit will determine who is responsible for the snowmobile death of Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson's son, an attorney for the family said Monday. [News Source]

Senator settles pedestrian’s injury lawsuit for $1.175M (The Star-Ledger) State Sen. Robert Singer yesterday agreed to a $1.175 million settlement to end a lawsuit by a 76-year-old woman seriously in jured when he hit her with his SUV two years ago. [News Source]