The City of Manteca, California and the police department have been named in a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit.

According to court documents, the lawsuit was filed over the officer-involved shooting death of Ernesto Duenez. The lawsuit alleges that officers wantonly killed Duenez on June 8 when he was “clearly unarmed and not a risk of harm to anyone.”

Attorneys of the Duenez family, John Burris and Ben Nisenbaum, say the killing was a tragedy that appears to have been caused by the reckless conduct of at least one of the Manteca Police Department’s officers. The attorneys claim that press accounts falsely claimed that Duenez had approached officers with a knife, a gun, or a weapon. Burris says several witnesses have refuted the claims that Duenez had a weapon.

In addition to the claim for $25 million in general damages, the Duenez family is also asking the court for special damages in a sum according to proof; punitive damages in a sum according to proof; reasonable attorney’s fees; injunctive relief; cost of the suit incurred; such other and further relief as the court deems just and proper.

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The mother of a Cornell University student who died during an alcohol-related fraternity hazing ritual has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the fraternity.

According to court documents, Marie Lourdes Andre filed a multimillion-dollar wrongful-death lawsuit against the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and its Ithaca chapter officers and members. The fraternity, which was founded in the 1850s, consists of 241 national chapters with about 11,000 undergraduate members.

According to the lawsuit, Andre’s son, George Desdunes, was found by Cornell personnel on February 25 unconscious on a couch at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house in Ithaca and later was pronounced dead. The lawsuit alleges that Desdunes was kidnapped by fraternity pledges in a ritual in which fraternity members bound his wrists and ankles with zip ties and duct tape, quizzed him about fraternity lore, and made him drink alcohol until he passed out.

SAE pledges and members took Desdunes, still bound, to the fraternity house and left him on the couch to die, the lawsuit alleges.

Three former pledges at Cornell pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges in connection with the death.

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The family of a Boston man who were killed in the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Logan International Airport.

Bavis, whose twin brother, Mark, died aboard United Airlines Flight 175, which was flown into the World Trade Center’s South Tower by terrorists, filed a wrongful death lawsuit claiming the Logan International Airport did not know how to spot Mace and had trouble speaking English.

“What’s really shocking for me is it has taken more than nine years for this to come out,” Mike Bavis said.

According to the lawsuit, security screeners at the United Airlines gate on September 11, 2001 were “unable to identify mace or did not know what mace was.” The lawsuit also claims the general manager for the security company at the gate was “unaware” of a federal alter that “Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network” were targeting American passenger jets. Bavis claims the security workers “could not communicate in English well enough to perform their passenger-screening duties.”

A spokesman for United Airlines refused to comment on the wrongful death lawsuit.

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The family of an Indiana teenager, who died Monday during a field trip, filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Friday.

According to court documents, 15 year-old Austin Israel, of Shelbyville, Indiana, had been staying at the Wernle youth and Family Treatment Center, a mental health treatment and counseling facility. On Monday, group from the center, while on a field trip to Richmond, went swimming in the Whitewater River and Israel drowned.

Officials with the Richmond Police Department said Israel was under water for 40 minutes before divers recovered his body. There were two counselors watching the 10 children as they swam. Investigators ruled the teen’s death an accident.

“We have a child who is dead, and that is very sad. I really hope we can get answers and all move forward,” said Everett Powell, attorney for the Israel family. “It’s just too much. I want answers to what happened. Immediately.”

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The family of a former Mississippi football player has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the university.

According to court documents, 20 year-old Bennie Abram collapsed during the first day of formal offseason workouts on February 19, 2010. He later died at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford, Mississippi. An autopsy ruled that complications associated with sickle cell trait caused Abrams death.

The lawsuit alleges that Ole Miss was aware of Abram’s sickle cell trait, which could occasionally trigger severe problems after strenuous exercise. The university has previously said all of its employees acted properly in response to Abram’s collapse.

The lawsuit claims the first day of workouts was “carelessly and recklessly excessive,” especially for athletes with sickle cell traits.

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The family of a Pennsylvania man who committed suicide after his allegation of sexual abuse by a priest was dismissed, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

The wrongful death lawsuit was filed Wednesday in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas by the family of a man identified as “Ben” in a grand jury report alleging the archdiocese covered up sex abuse cases. According to the lawsuit, “Ben” was abused in the 1980s by the Reverend Joseph Gallagher, a priest who had previously been accused of sexual abuse.

“Ben” killed himself in 2008 after the archdiocese deemed his allegations of sexual abuse “not credible.”

Rev. Gallagher was suspended in February.

An spokesman for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia declined to comment on the lawsuit.

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Massachusetts General Hospital has been named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a deceased woman, who claim an incorrect dosage of blood thinner led to her death.

According to court documents, 76 year-old Geraldine Oswald was living in Revere, Massachusetts when she fell and broke her shoulder last year. While in the care of Massachusetts General Hospital for an infection, Oswald was given an overdose of a blood thinning medication called Lepiruin, which led to her bleeding internally for hours before she died; a mistake hospital officials later admitted.

Massachusetts General Hospital released a statement which said: “In this case, as soon as we understood what had happened, we apologized and explained the situation to Mrs. Oswald’s family . . . As a result of this event, we have made some specific changes to our practices to reduce the chance of such an event from occurring again.”

Oswlad’s attorney, Andrew Meyer, said errors in prescription doses are one of the most common medical mistakes. The lawsuit is about making changes, according to Meyer. “The public needs to know there are errors in the medical system on a regular basis,” Meyer said. “They need to be protective of their loved ones and relative who go into these situations, no matter how well respected [the hospitals] are.”

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