by: Kait Newsum for WHNT Posted: Jun 8, 2022 / 06:16 AM CDT LIMESTONE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — Court documents filed on Monday lay out the details behind a claim that a Limestone County School employee abused a 12-year-old non-verbal student with autism. The lawsuit is a complaint against Limestone County Schools and Robye Patterson,…
“The child is a nonverbal, autistic child. That is a problem because finding the source of these injuries is going to be very difficult.” Eric Artrip By Kailey Schuyler for WAFF Published: Jun. 8, 2022 at 6:21 PM CDT HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Limestone County Schools and one of its former employees are facing a…
Eric J. Artrip, a partner at Huntsville, Alabama-based law firm Mastando & Artrip, told The Register in a phone interview, “Ultimately, our goal is to see some real and systemic change in the farming industry.” Artrip explained that farming profit margins are extremely small and depend upon factors outside of farmers’ control like weather and…
“This is at its heart an antitrust case about the inability for farmers to find anybody to work on their tractors outside of a John Deere dealership because of a certain proprietary software that’s been installed on them.” Eric Artrip By Sarah Whites-Koditschek | swhites-koditschek@al.com Trinity Dale Wells is a cattle farmer on a small…
“The law requires that people be treated equally. It doesn’t require Walmart to pay for the uniforms. But what it does requires is Walmart treat the men and the women the same and that’s all we’re asking for.” Huntsville Attorney Eric Artrip By Ashley Remkus | aremkus@al.com An Alabama woman who works as a delivery…
“Generally speaking, the federal government has the ability to regulate private employers for certain things that are of the matter of public concern, certainly, a global pandemic would qualify,” Huntsville Attorney Eric Artrip by: Madison Neal HUNTSVILLE, Ala.– Huntsville attorneys say Biden’s new vaccine requirements, that affect nearly 100 million Americans, will likely be battled…
“Employers can have certain requirements to do the job. In this case, being vaccinated is something an employer can require an employee to attend work every day,” Huntsville Attorney Eric Artrip By Caroline Klapp HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Get the vaccine or quit your job? This is the choice facing many employees all over the…
“And we believe that whether he participated in the interactive process is a factual issue for the jury, we also believe the lower court did not consider evidence in our favor that supported his FMLA claim.” attorney Teri Mastando A steel manufacturer has urged the Eleventh Circuit to affirm dismissal of a former employee’s discrimination…
Claims of discrimination and retaliation are at the center of a lawsuit involving the state’s most popular tourist attraction, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. A former employee claims she was terminated after requesting accommodations for her disability. Discriminated against, retaliated against and then ultimately terminated. That’s what the federal lawsuit is alleging. Tara Sweeney’s…
Judge Berg said most of the consumers had standing to sue and established an economic injury at the point of sale to survive the companies’ dismissal bids. The truck buyers said that FCA and Cummins misled them about the trucks’ emissions rates, leading them to pay an $8,000 to $10,000 premium for trucks that couldn’t…