Pen Bomb Goes Off in School
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CN) - A high school student was hurt by a "pen bomb" made by a classmate who had been thrown out of another high school for an alleged bomb plot, the injured student claims in...
View ArticleWater Park Faces Trial Over Guest's Slide Crash
(CN) - A man crashed out of a waterslide pool at an amusement park will have the chance to prove that his weight did not cause the accident, the New York Court of Appeals ruled. Anthony...
View ArticleSaints Fans Sue NFL for 'Beloved Team'
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - Saints ticketholders sued NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in a class action, claiming his suspensions of coaches and players in the bounty-hunting scandal "punished the innocent...
View ArticleNo Pre-Election Reviewof Florida's Voter Purge
(CN) - The 11th Circuit refused to expedite review of Florida's plan to remove potential noncitizens from the voter rolls before the Nov. 6 election. Earlier this year, a coalition of...
View ArticleBin Laden's Ex-Driver Ducks Terror Convictions
(CN) - Osama bin Laden's former driver was found guilty of a war crime that did not exist while he worked for the al-Qaida leader, the D.C. Circuit ruled, vacating the conviction. While...
View ArticlePfc. Bradley Manning Closer to Entering Plea
FT. MEADE, Md. (CN) - Pfc. Bradley Manning privately told his trial judge Wednesday how he intends to respond to charges that he sent WikiLeaks hundreds of thousands of secret files about U.S....
View ArticleA Different Kind of Green Spurred City Trash Law
DALLAS (CN) - A federal judge squashed a Dallas law that set one landfill for commercial trash dumps, blasting city leaders for lying about the environmental justification. U.S. District Judge...
View ArticleModels Sue Top Agencies for $20 Million
MANHATTAN (CN) - Professional models sued top modeling and ad agencies and cosmetics firms in a $20 million class action, claiming the defendants continue to profit from models' work after their...
View ArticleCourt Upholds Recording of Co-Worker's Rant
CHICAGO (CN) - A former Merrill Lynch employee who threatened and yelled at a co-worker in a Thanksgiving phone call cannot sue over a recording of the rant, the 7th Circuit ruled. In 2005,...
View ArticleFrackers in California Get Free Passes, Environmentalists Say
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) - California is illegally handing out permits to use fracking in oil and gas drilling, without environmental surveys required by law, four environmental groups claim in court....
View Article2nd Circuit Strikes Down Defense of Marriage Act
(CN) - The 2nd Circuit on Thursday became the second federal appeals court to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act as an unconstitutional violation of equal protection. A three-judge panel...
View ArticleFCC May Collect Do-Not-Call List Tracking Data
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Federal Communications Commission soon will be able to require and collect reports regarding the national do-not-call registry, to better track information and enforce rule...
View ArticleFOIA
WASHINGTON - A federal judge dismissed some claims by the National Security Counselors regarding an alleged policy by the CIA to violate the Freedom of Information Act.
View ArticleElection Money
WASHINGTON - The Tea Party Leadership Fund sued the Federal Election Commission, challenging "the six-month waiting period on political committees making non-corrupting contributions ... of $5,000...
View ArticleClean It Up
OAKLAND, Calif. - The California Attorney General and Department of Justice injure people by failing to correct arrest records of people who were exonerated, and disseminating the incorrect...
View ArticleDirty Coal
LOUSIVILLE - The Army Corps of Engineers improperly granted permits for mines to fill in more than 3 miles of streams in Knott and Perry Counties, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth claims in...
View ArticleForeclosure Scam
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Premiere Loan Services bosses Raed Farraj and Nathaniel Genis used a "statewide network of cohorts" to defraud elderly people and foreign language-speakers of thousands of...
View ArticleKaiser
CLEVELAND (CN) - A newborn is severely brain-damaged after Kaiser doctors botched the reading of the fetal heart monitor and continued to induce labor, her mother claims in Cuyahoga County Court.
View ArticlePonzi Bounce
MINNEAPOLIS - Questar Capital sold $20 million of securities issued by Diversified Business Services & Investments, a defunct Ponzi scheme, and took $2.2 million in commissions from it, a...
View ArticleSecurities
MANHATTAN - David M. Nunn made 1,300 illegal trades totaling $1.7 million for "fictitious sales of coffee futures contracts," the CFTC claims in Federal Court.
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