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Newville Wins Federal Court Victory and Secures $525,000 Settlement in Police Shooting Case
Josh Newville won an important court victory and secured a $525,000 settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Las Vegas...
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Newville PLC
- Jan 28, 2019
Newville Named to Federal Practice Committee
Joshua Newville has been selected to serve on the Federal Practice Committee for the United States District Court for the District of...
Newville PLC
- Jun 11, 2018
Why Police Misconduct Cases Don't Often Make It To Trial
The cases brought in the names of Philando Castile, Terence Crutcher, Tamir Rice and Freddie Gray never made it to trial. Each was...
Newville PLC
- Oct 27, 2016
Newville Whistleblower Case Leads To $6.2 Million Recovery; Defendant CEO Faces One Year In Prison
(Madison, WI, October 27, 2016)—A stipulation based on a criminal plea deal and a monetary settlement was filed today to resolve a...
Newville PLC
- May 18, 2016
$250,000.00 Settlement for Newville Client Who Was Urinated On In North Dakota Oil Field
On Wednesday, Attorney Joshua Newville joined the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Ebeltoft Sickler in requesting that the...
Josh Newville
- Feb 3, 2016
Lyft Settles Employee Misclassification Lawsuit
Last year, we wrote about two class action lawsuits on behalf of Uber and Lyft drivers who were classified as independent contractors....
Newville PLC
- Dec 4, 2015
Newville Files Discrimination Case Against Fargo Hospital On Behalf of Transgender Employee
Yesterday, on behalf of a former transgender employee denied access to the locker room consistent with her gender, Joshua Newville filed...
Newville PLC
- Aug 11, 2015
8th CIRCUIT AFFIRMS HISTORIC MARRIAGE EQUALITY DECISION IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Today, in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584 (2015), the United States Court of Appeals for the...
Newville PLC
- May 17, 2015
Wal-Mart Sued for Failing to Pay Wages and Provide Breaks
Retail giant Wal-Mart is being sued by a group of former employee pharmacists who say they were required to work outside the stores but...
Josh Newville
- May 3, 2015
The Supreme Court To Address Marriage Equality Litigation
Historic, unprecedented, monumental… no single word fully encapsulates the magnitude and impact the past three years have had on marriage...
Josh Newville
- Mar 22, 2015
Lawsuits Highlight Problems with Classifying Workers as Non Employees
On March 11, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California handed down opinions in Cotter v. Lyft, Inc., and...
Newville PLC
- Feb 10, 2015
Newville Files Emergency Motion for Marriage Equality Case in South Dakota
United States District Court District of South Dakota Rosenbrahn, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Daugaard, et al., Defendants. Case No....
Newville PLC
- Jan 11, 2015
NEWVILLE WINS LANDMARK FREEDOM TO MARRY RULING IN SOUTH DAKOTA
(Sioux Falls, SD)– On January 12, 2015, on behalf of six same-sex couples, Joshua Newville won a historic civil rights victory in a...
Newville PLC
- Nov 14, 2014
Federal Court Denies South Dakota’s Motion to Dismiss Marriage Equality Lawsuit
–FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE— (Sioux Falls, SD, Nov. 14, 2014)—South Dakota’s marriage equality lawsuit is moving forward after United States...
Josh Newville
- Nov 13, 2014
#Pointergate Highlights Mpls Police Union As Barrier To Accountability
In August 2012, I wrote about the problem with the City of Minneapolis dispensing with civilian review of police officers’ conduct. That...
Josh Newville
- Nov 4, 2014
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Sues Honeywell for Disability Discrimination
Honeywell is defending itself from a federal disability discrimination and genetic information lawsuit filed by the EEOC. According to...
Josh Newville
- Oct 24, 2014
Rule 68 Offers and Civil Rights Claims
Rule 68 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure contains an interesting and nuanced option for civil defendants to settle a case. Rule 68...
Josh Newville
- Oct 6, 2014
Supreme Court Order Brings Marriage Equality States to 30
Today, the United States Supreme Court denied to review opinions issued by three appellate courts that declared bans on same-sex marriage...
Josh Newville
- Sep 30, 2014
Fed Court: Government Can Use Sample Evidence in Whistleblower Case
The False Claims Act exists to incentivize whistleblowing in areas such as Medicare fraud. Qui tam whistleblowers (known as “relators”)...
Josh Newville
- Aug 28, 2014
St. Paul Police Inexplicably Arrest and Taze Black Man
In an alarming video posted to YouTube this week, two St. Paul police officers violently arrested and tazed a black man who was simply...
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