Telecom Radiation Fight Booted to State Court
(CN) - A New Mexico man can get another crack at claiming that AT&T signal upgrades made him sick because of electromagnetic hypersensitivity, the 10th Circuit ruled. In a pro se...
View ArticleEx-Principal Says School Cheats Taxpayers
PHOENIX (CN) - A charter high school principal claims in court he was fired after he reported "illegal practices" that cost Arizona taxpayers "millions of dollars which SIATech had claimed and was...
View ArticleOrder May Have Blurred Greenpeace Actions
(CN) - The 9th Circuit seems likely to overturn an order that bars Greenpeace USA from barricading Shell vessels off the Alaskan coast in protest of Arctic oil drilling. Greenpeace says Shell...
View ArticlePharmacists Fight Mail-Order Med Mandate
ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) - Independent pharmacies sued New York State to stop the state from steering Medicaid recipients to mail-order delivery of certain drugs, which the state Pharmacists Society...
View ArticleMedicare Part D Claims to Cost RxAmerica $5M
BROOKLYN, N.Y. - RxAmerica, a CVS subsidiary, agreed Monday to pay $5.25 million to settle claims that it defrauded Medicare's prescription-drug program Part D. Acquired by CVS Caremark in...
View ArticleStrip Club Owners Fight Double Taxes
HOUSTON (CN) - Strip club owners sued Houston, claiming the city is unconstitutionally taxing them $5 per customer to fund the city's backlog on processing of rape kits. The politely named...
View ArticleMission Tortilla Maker Can Keep Fighting Chain
(CN) - The 5th Circuit revived claims that a chain of Mexican restaurants in Texas called Mission Burritos violates the trademark held by Gruma Corp. Since 1982, Gruma has registered 29...
View ArticleFamily Blames Wal-Mart for Death
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (CN) - A woman with asthma died after a Wal-Mart manager ignored her complaints and told her she had to work in the deep freezer, her family claims in court. The family of...
View ArticleMinn. Political Spending Law Faces Narrow Ban
(CN) - A federal judge granted an injunction against a Minnesota law requiring inactive political funds to file reports with the state's election board. Direct campaign contributions by...
View ArticleNorCal Prosecutor Fights to Keep His License
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A Northern California district attorney claims in court that the state Bar and local officials are trying to disbar him because he is a recovered methamphetamine addict....
View ArticleImmunity Bars Suing Rwanda President in US
(CN) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame cannot be sued on U.S. soil for allegedly masterminding the 1994 assassinations of two African leaders, the 10th Circuit ruled. The widows of Rwandan...
View ArticleDogfight Over College Loan Portfolios
SAN DIEGO (CN) - The American Student Financial Group claims in court that a capital management firm stole its trade secrets, its biggest for-profit college client and its trademark. American...
View ArticleAriz. Voter Registration Rule Heads to High Court
(CN) - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether Arizonans must prove their citizenship to register as voters, a requirement the full 9th Circuit shot down this spring. Passed in 2004,...
View ArticleClever Embezzlers Took $850,000, Store Says
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CN) - Former employees of a Piggly Wiggly supermarket exploited a flaw in Western Union's money wire system to embezzle $850,000, Piggly Wiggly claims in court. Plaintiff...
View ArticleTwo Accused of Setting Stage for Rape Duck Suit
CHICAGO (CN) - A federal judge has dismissed claims against two police officers who released a disturbed young white woman into a high-crime, black neighborhood where she was raped and badly brain...
View ArticleSteven Tyler's Lawyer Accused of Talking Trash
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Steven Tyler's former management company is suing his lawyer for $8 million, claiming she bad-mouthed it during "American Idol" contract negotiations to reap more clients....
View ArticleHouston Strip Club Bared to Scrutiny
HOUSTON (CN) - A strip club ran up $5,300 on a customer's American Express card for "dances that never took place," a dancer stole his watch, then guards kicked the bejeezus out of him, a man...
View ArticleYellow Pages Are Free Speech, 9th Circuit Says
(CN) - The First Amendment protects yellow pages phonebooks, the 9th Circuit ruled Monday, rejecting a Seattle law that sought to limit distribution of the often thick and immediately recycled...
View ArticleBizarre Complaint From Gay Porn Industry
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Gay porn companies forced a man to inject models' penises with a prescription enhancement drug and fired him after he poked his thumb with a syringe during a shoot, the man...
View ArticleLawnmower Maker Not at Fault for Tragic Accident
(CN) - The maker and seller of a lawnmower that backed over a toddler, causing severe injuries, cannot be held liable, the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled. Kirk Norton was using a Deer riding...
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