Feds Liable for Hepatitis Infection at VA Hospital
MIAMI (CN) - The United States is liable to a veteran who was infected with hepatitis after undergoing a colonoscopy in which staffers used dirty equipment, a federal judge ruled. Robert...
View ArticleDocs Called Live Boy Dead, Parents Say
CHICAGO (CN) - Parents claim in court that doctors pronounced their son dead, ignoring signs of life for hours before a cardiac ultrasound revealed he was still alive. Sheena Lane and Pink...
View ArticleWalnut Claims Will Cost Diamond $2.6 Million
(CN) - Diamond Foods can pay $2.6 million to settle claims over the health benefits it attributes to its walnuts, a federal judge ruled. In a March 2010 complaint, lead plaintiff Elliot Zeisel...
View ArticleGeorgia Bending Over for White Folks,Joseph Lowery & Black Caucus Say
ATLANTA (CN) - Georgia is illegally carving out and incorporating white enclaves from minority-majority counties, empowering rich white folks and disempowering poor minorities, Georgia's...
View ArticleNo Medicare Refund of Illinois Hospital Tax
CHICAGO (CN) - Hospitals cannot seek a Medicare reimbursement of the taxes they paid to Illinois because they benefited from state funding, the 7th Circuit ruled. In 2004, Illinois passed...
View ArticleAbused Dutro Daughters Are Too Late With Suit
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Six sisters filed suit too late to hold their community and church liable for the decades of abuse imposed by their parents, a federal magistrate ruled. Zion Dutro...
View ArticlePolice Torture Victims Seek Last Chance
CHICAGO (CN) - Attorneys seek new hearings for more than 100 imprisoned men who claim Chicago police officers, led by now-notorious Lt. Jon Burge, tortured them into confessing to crimes....
View ArticleTwo California Courts Get Landmark Status
(CN) - The U.S. Department of the Interior designated two California federal courthouses, one in San Francisco and one in Los Angeles, as national landmarks. There were three other locations...
View ArticleWarner's Wins Fight for Superman Copyrights
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Heirs to the co-creator of Superman cannot renegotiate copyrights for the Man of Steel, because they signed a binding agreement with DC Comics more than 20 years ago, a federal...
View ArticleTexas Man's Execution Stayed by Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Supreme Court late Thursday stayed the death sentence in store for a convicted cop killer, but it refused to intervene on behalf of a schizophrenic man on death row. In...
View ArticleOld Mystery Pursues Court Leaders
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - An old mystery that has pursued California's judicial leadership came up again at a statewide conference last weekend, when a Los Angeles judge was blocked in his pursuit of...
View ArticleAmazon Blasts Apple for Novel App Store Claims
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) - In characterizing the Amazon Appstore as false advertising, Apple posed "a far-reaching and novel theory that would turn trademark law on its head," Amazon said. The...
View ArticleDoctors Called "Walking Vaginas," Says Woman
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A group of male doctors routinely referred to female doctors at the Kaiser medical facility in San Diego as "cunt," "bitch," and "walking vaginas," and plaintiff was demoted...
View ArticleImmigrant Wins Legal Fees in FOIA Action
(CN) - The U.S. government owes attorneys fees to a man who sued over improperly withheld immigration documents, federal judge ruled. Misrad Hajro, a legal permanent U.S. resident, requested a...
View ArticleHomeowners Can't Nail Builder for Landslide
SAN ANTONIO (CN) - Pulte Homes is not liable to Texans who say that their property values faltered because of a collapsed retaining wall and landslide, a federal judge ruled. Owners of...
View ArticleTwin Teenage Bloggers Lose Suspension Relief
ST. LOUIS (CN) - Twin brothers who were suspended over a blog that criticized their school district are not entitled to an injunction, the 8th Circuit ruled. The Lee's Summit R-7 School...
View ArticleHospital That 'Disposed of' Fetus Fights Lawsuit
AUSTIN (CN) - A hospital that disposed of a stillborn fetus wants the Texas Supreme Court to dismiss the complaint of a grieving mother who wanted to bury the infant. McAllen Medical Center...
View ArticleAri Emanuel Says Clothiers Defrauded Him
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Hollywood talent agent Ari Emanuel claims in court that his partners in a clothing business fleeced him out of $600,000 and used the firm as their "cash cow" to fund competing...
View Article'Zombie' Claims May Not Help Mine Opponents
(CN) - Long inactive uranium mines near the Grand Canyon are coming back to life, like "zombies," without updated environmental reviews, an attorney told the 9th Circuit. The federal appeals...
View ArticleDespite Age, Past Success, Detainees Denied Habeas
WASHINGTON (CN) - A federal judge showed no mercy Friday to three Bagram detainees who lost habeas relief on appeal, or one who claims to have been captured at age 14. Yemeni citizens Fadi al...
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