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Class action seeks partial refunds from major retailers
Canada

Class action seeks partial refunds from major retailers

  • By Joel Goldenberg The Suburban

Charles Olivier-Rivard is seeking to launch a class-action suit against more than a dozen major retailers, amongst them Best Buy, Costco, and Walmart, claiming they wrongly charged provincial and federal sales tax for such items as product protection plans and extended warranties.

States Newsroom

Reflecting Pool damaged before Olympian charged with felony touched it, witness says

  • Jennifer Shutt

David Hearn, of Bethesda, Maryland, is charged with destruction of property of more than $1,000 for allegedly vandalizing the newly refinished Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on June 19, 2026. Shown is construction at the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., on May 5, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)

Illinois

Cops can’t skip woman’s suit over ecstasy overdose from pills stuck in body

  • Scott Holland | Legal Newsline

A federal judge won’t dismiss a complaint from the family of a woman who is now cognitively impaired after she suffered an overdose-induced cardiac arrest while in custody, injuries they blame on Chicago police officers who allegedly failed to notice one of 27 ecstasy pills lodged inside her vagina.