Bible-Loving Cheerleaders Win Injunction
DALLAS (CN) - Kountze High School cheerleaders can display Bible verses on football game banners, a Texas judge ruled, blocking a school district ban with an injunction. The Thursday order,...
View ArticleJudge Dismisses Much of PlayStation Hacking Suit
(CN) - A federal judge dealt a blow to PlayStation users who say that a Sony security breach exposed more than 69 million personal and credit card accounts to theft. The PlayStation Network,...
View ArticleFeds Owe Half a Million to Tenacious Journalist
(CN) - A journalist who won access to documents on President Ronald Regan's supposed work as an FBI informant can collect nearly $470,400 in attorneys' fees, a federal judge ruled. Seth...
View ArticleKolon Accused of Stealing DuPont Trade Secrets
(CN) - A grand jury charged Kolon Industries and five executives and employees of conspiring to steal trade secrets for high-strength fiber technology from DuPont and Teijin Ltd. A grand-jury...
View ArticleCharity Worker Embezzled $83,000 from USA
(CN) - A Goodwill employee admitted he embezzled $83,000 from a housing program that receives federal funding, federal prosecutors said. Francis Louis Carrillo, 48, of Albuquerque, pleaded...
View ArticlePunched Out While Driving a Bus
DALLAS (CN) - A Greyhound bus driver claims in court that a defective partition allowed a passenger to punch him repeatedly while he was driving. Garrett Scott sued busmaker Prevost, bus...
View ArticleAttorney Claims Client Defamed Him
DALLAS (CN) - A Dallas attorney sued a former client, claiming she defamed him by tell another attorney he committed legal malpractice that resulted in sanctions against her. Mark Alexander...
View ArticleSex Isn't Disorderly Conduct, Student Says
PHILADELPHIA (CN) - A high school student sued his school district for suspending him for "disorderly conduct," because a classmate secretly videotaped him having sex with his girlfriend on a...
View ArticleCourt Order Needed to Keep Rogue Grocer Away
MANHATTAN (CN) - A grocery store should have take tougher actions after a manager who was dating the boss sexually harassed 10 women, the 2nd Circuit ruled. Allen Manwaring, now in his...
View ArticleDisabled War VetGets Rude Treatment
(CN) - A San Antonio businessman kicked a disabled war veteran and his service dog out of a mattress store, and employees told the vet to "Go occupy Wall Street," the man claims in court. Adan...
View ArticleClass Claims Lawyer Took 'Secret' $6M Deal
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) - A California law firm accepted a $6 million "secret settlement" of a labor class action against a bank, agreed to dismiss the claims without telling 600 clients, then tried...
View ArticleStates That Sat on Clean Air Duties Get Slapped
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - The government must fault 35 states for failing to submit air-quality plans that reflect new national ozone standards, a federal judge ruled. WildEarth Guardians, Midwest...
View ArticleAntitrust Complaint Against Music Promoter
INDIANAPOLIS (CN) - Zamora Entertainment, a Latin music promoter, claims to have "exclusive rights" to produce events in 15 states, and uses its market muscle to coerce Latin and rock bands to...
View ArticleMom Loses Claim Over Bunks Suited to Suicide
CHICAGO (CN) - Illinois officials are not liable for the suicide of a 16-year-old boy at a state-run youth detention center, the 7th Circuit ruled. Jamal Miller arrived at the Illinois Youth...
View ArticleClass Accuses EBay & PayPal ofDeceptive Trade & Snooping
SAN JOSE (CN) - EBay and PayPal plant privacy-invading spyware on customers' computers, and promise, but fail, to protect sellers from fraud, but unfairly insist "that the buyer is always right,"...
View ArticleEx-Dechert Lawyer Has a Case for Unfair Firing
(CN) - A law firm may have retaliated, but did not discriminate, in firing a man whose billable hours dropped after his pregnant wife attempted suicide, a federal judge ruled. From 2006 to...
View ArticleApple Forced AT&T on iPhone Users, Class Says
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Apple violated antitrust law by forcing customers to use AT&T Mobility for five years and barring them from switching to another carrier, a class claims in Federal Court....
View ArticleAirport Workers Charged With Smuggling
HOUSTON (CN) - Two cargo workers at George Bush Intercontinental Airport took bribes from an undercover agent to smuggle $100,000 and 2.4 kilos of heroin past security, federal prosecutors said....
View ArticleThree Indicted in FBI Bribery Scheme
SALT LAKE CITY (CN) - A Massachusetts man pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he acted as middleman between a bribe-taking FBI agent and a defense contractor. Robert Lustyik Jr., 50, of...
View ArticleNursing Homes
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Sunrise Senior Living is selling itself too cheaply through an unfair process to Health Care REIT, for $14.50 a share or $845 million, shareholders say in a federal class action.
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