Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge

These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in the latest phase of Trump’s anti-immigration campaign…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/29/deaths-one-day-ice-immigration

 

US company to pay $22.5m over newborn’s death after denying woman remote work

Chelsea Walsh prematurely gave birth after firm rejected work from home request in 2021 amid high-risk pregnancy…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/ohio-employer-pay-newborn-death-mother 

 

‘Devastating’: troubled federal correctional center failed to prevent death of man in medical crisis

Private contractors at a federal detention facility delayed calling for an ambulance for hours during a man's health crisis the day before he died, video and records obtained by the Guardian can reveal…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/12/cibola-county-correctional-center-james-ramirez-death

 

US woman brings first-ever wrongful death lawsuit against big oil | Seattle | The Guardian

Misti Leon argues fossil fuel companies' climate negligence caused her mother's death during a heatwave…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/oil-industry-wrongful-death-lawsuit 

 

Florida abortion rights supporters fear new proposal would target doctors - POLITICO

"This bill … is a thinly veiled attempt to allow men to sue women and doctors in cases of wanted and needed abortion care," said Lauren Book...

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/19/florida-abortion-new-proposal-wrongful-death-lawsuits-00136651

Police killed Niani Finlayson seconds after responding to her 911 call, video shows

Body camera reveals Los Angeles deputy fired at woman who sought help for domestic violence as nine-year-old daughter watched…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/29/la-police-fatally-shot-niani-finlayson-body-camera

Notorious US jail accused of ‘unconscionable failure’ after man’s ‘slow, torturous death’

Family sues after Maurice Monk was left face-down in a cell for three days at Santa Rita, one of the largest jails in the country…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/16/santa-rita-jail-alameda-maurice-monk-schizophrenia-medication-death

Family of pregnant woman fatally shot by Colorado police sue | Colorado | The Guardian

Destinee Thompson's family file wrongful death and excessive force lawsuit after mother mistaken for robbery suspect…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/17/destinee-thompson-family-sue-colorado-police-fatal-shooting

“Wrongful Death” for Helping a Friend Get an Abortion

Mitchell's broader ambition in the wrongful death lawsuit may be judicial recognition of fetal personhood, or classifying fetuses as equal to people with protected constitutional rights, according to Mary Ziegler, abortion historian and law professor at the University of California, Davis. Comstock, while a parallel strategy, helps push the similar view that all abortion violates federal criminal law. Fetal personhood has been the defining end goal of the anti-abortion movement since the 1960s, and with Roe's demise, extremists have an unprecedented opportunity to achieve it...

https://theintercept.com/2023/04/26/abortion-wrongful-death-texas-lawsuit/

‘Hunted’: one in three people killed by US police were fleeing, data reveals

In many cases, the encounters started as traffic stops or there were no allegations of violence or serious crimes …

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/28/hunted-one-in-three-people-killed-by-us-police-were-fleeing-data-reveals

Brett Rosenau Is the Latest Child Killed in a Botched SWAT Raid – Mother Jones

Early in the morning on July 7, after a SWAT team bombarded a home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with chemical irritants and a flashbang device, detectives went inside and found the corpse of a teenage boy. Brett Rosenau, 15, was not suspected of any crime. The police's target, a 27-year-old man who was wanted for a parole violation, had already emerged from the house to be arrested. But a fire had erupted inside, likely from the flashbangs...

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2022/07/brett-rosenau-police-swat-raid-flashbang-granade/

Federal jury awards $85 million to California family in wrongful death lawsuit - CNN

…The federal jury found the deputies used excessive force against Phounsy, weren't trained properly, violated Phounsy's civil rights, and were negligent in their duties -- all of which led to his wrongful death, according to court records…

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/19/us/san-diego-lucky-phounsy-wrongful-death-lawsuit/index.html