A Business Nightmare in Mexico
HOUSTON (CN) - An oilfield equipment firm claims in court that a competitor destroyed it with bogus copyright charges that corrupt Mexican officials enforced by shutting its factory down and...
View ArticleTaxpayers Lose Bid for $6.5M in Attorneys' Fees
(CN) - Taxpayers who sued the IRS over its process of refunding the $8 billion it illegally collected in excise taxes on long-distance phone calls lost their bid for $6.5 million in attorneys'...
View ArticleEx-Law Partners Blast One Another in Court
CLAYTON, Mo. (CN) - A lawyer countersued his former partners, claiming they defamed him by accusing him of fire-bombing their home after they fired him. Mark R. Bates sued Beth C. Boggs, and...
View ArticleCollegeSource Loses Case Against AcademyOne
(CN) - A federal judge rejected the hacking claims that CollegeSource, a provider of online college course catalogs, filed against its competitor, AcademyOne. Based in West Chester, Pa.,...
View ArticleElton John Won't Face Claims of Copying 'Nikita'
CHICAGO (CN) - A photojournalist who claims that Elton John's song "Nikita" is a rip-off of the ballad he wrote for a Ukrainian waitress cannot sue, a federal judge ruled. Guy Hobbs sued Elton...
View ArticlePastor Abused, School Fired Her, Teacher Says
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) - A Christian school fired a fifth-grade teacher after she complained that its pastor forced her to have sex with him in the back seat of his car, the woman claims in court....
View ArticleLawyer Gets a New Shot Over Workers' Comp Blog
(CN) - The 5th Circuit revived claims by a Texas lawyer whom the state has banned him from using the words "workers' comp" in the domain name of his legal blog. John Gibson filed a federal...
View ArticleFacebook Sued as Social Game Monopolist
WILMINGTON, Del. (CN) - Facebook monopolizes the virtual-currency and payment-processing markets by forcing social-game developers to use its service, Kickflip claims in a federal antitrust...
View ArticleMayor Candidate Jumps Into Election Law Fray
(CN) - A Republican running for mayor of Montana this year can intervene in the appeal over campaign-contribution limits that were found unconstitutional, the 9th Circuit ruled. Montana has...
View ArticleLower Manhattan Staggering
MANHATTAN (CN) - The lights of the Empire State Building marked the divide between a nearly blacked-out Lower Manhattan and the rest of the city Tuesday night, while those in the dark...
View ArticleDJ Can Sue Cops Over Birthday Party Beating
(CN) - Police officers must face claims that they assaulted partygoers after the DJ complained on the loudspeaker about the event being shut down, a federal judge ruled. Barry Turkowitz served...
View ArticleFlood Insurance
SAN FRANCISCO - Homeowners who say they were forced to maintain flood insurance with unreasonably high policy limits cannot sue Wells Fargo, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleGummy Contract
NEWARK - Beech-Nut Nutrition deserves $2.5 million for 230,000 cases of a gummy snack called Fruit Nibbles that it bought from Promotion in Motion but had to withdraw from the market, a federal...
View ArticleAttorney Says Vancouver Sun Defamed Him
VANCOUVER, B.C. (CN) - An expert in charity law claims in court that the Vancouver Sun defamed him in articles that implied he provided incompetent legal advice to charities targeted by the...
View ArticleLicensing
ATLANTA - Sipco breached a settlement agreement by suing Siemens Industry for patent infringement of certain wireless technology, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleHardly an Appropriate Response
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (CN) - A Wendy's employee claims in court that a co-worker sexually abused her in a refrigerator and threatened her life, and when she reported it to the manager, the manager...
View ArticleAlien Tort Statute
MIAMI - A federal judge refused to reinstate the decade-old claims of Guatemalan laborers who say they were kidnapped and tortured while working on a Del Monte Fresh Produce banana plantation.
View ArticleShareholders Challenge SprintNextel Sale
OLATHE, Kan. (CN) - Sprint Nextel is selling itself too cheaply through an unfair process to SoftBank, in a cash and stock swap worth more than $3.1 billion, shareholders say in a class action....
View ArticleStudent Loans
ST. LOUIS - Susan Shaffer can discharge the more than $200,000 in education debt that she has little hope of paying, the 8th Circuit ruled, rejecting an appeal from Iowa Student Loan Liquidity.
View ArticleInjured War Veterans Sue Canada
VANCOUVER, B.C. (CN) - Disabled war veterans claim in a class action that Canada unfairly compensates them for combat and non-combat related injuries and pain and suffering. Lead plaintiff...
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