Political Spending Caps
WASHINGTON - Echoing an October decision, a federal three-judge panel dismissed claims against the $46,200 ceiling on aggregate political contributions filed by Virginia James.
View ArticleCleared After 20 Years in Prison
CHICAGO (CN) - An exonerated Latino man spent 20 years in prison after a four-day police interrogation that triggered a mental breakdown, during which he falsely confessed to raping and murdering...
View ArticleObamacare
WASHINGTON - Citing the resolution of related health care claims before the D.C. Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, a federal judge dismissed a complaint brought by the Association of American...
View ArticleDeveloper Says Land Is Riddled With Bombs
VANCOUVER, B.C. (CN) - After military training exercises, Canada abandoned 1,350 acres in British Columbia riddled with "unexploded bombs, mortar shells, grenades and other devices all or which...
View ArticleAmerican & Sabre Settle Feuds Over Booking Site
FORT WORTH (CN) - American Airlines agreed to settle federal and state lawsuits filed after travel-reservation firm Sabre Holdings displayed American's flight information and bookings. The...
View ArticleChurch Compounded Sexual Abuse, Girl Says
CHICAGO (CN) - After a Methodist church elder sexually abused a girl, other church leaders called her a "home wrecker" who was "worse than a prostitute because at least prostitutes get paid," the...
View ArticleACLU Nails Immigration on Records Production
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Immigration and Customs Enforcement may have withheld records about an immigration raid on a Southern California factory, a federal judge ruled. The American Civil Liberties...
View ArticleMembers Say Bosses Ran Union Like the Mob
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Top bosses of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 501 embezzled "tens of millions of dollars" and ran the union "with the same disregard for others' rights as...
View ArticleFired Kaiser Worker Can Pursue Retaliation Case
(CN) - A woman can advance claims that Kaiser Hospital fired her after she complained about an alleged drug-using boss, a federal judge ruled. As reported by Courthouse News, Kristinna Grotz...
View ArticleCalling Beef 'Pink Slime' Isn't Libel, ABC Insists
(CN) - The ABC television network asked a federal judge to toss a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit filed by a meat producer implicated in "pink slime" news stories. Using the words "pink slime"...
View ArticleFedEx Accused of Thuggish Tactics With Drivers
(CN) - FedEx's ground delivery system uses racketeering tactics, physical assaults, extortion and flat-out fraud to duck taxes and labor laws and dump legal liabilities on drivers, whom it...
View ArticleWatchdog May Get More on Encryption Program
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A federal judge ordered another review of secret files about an FBI program that would require encryption protocols among all communication services. The FBI adopted the...
View ArticleBattered New Yorkers Organize Relief Efforts
NEW YORK CITY (CN) - With city and federal agencies overwhelmed by Sandy, public housing residents in the "Zone A" evacuation area in Queens and Brooklyn sought aid from grassroots relief workers...
View ArticleFormer Career Education CEO Under Investor Fire
CHICAGO (CN) - The former CEO of a massive for-profit college cannot dismiss claims that he lied about job-placement rates, a federal judge ruled. Career Education Corporation (CEC),...
View ArticleSF Superior Questions Study That Downplays Its Judicial Needs
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - The need for judges at San Francisco Superior Court exceeds what is reflected in a report en route to Gov. Jerry Brown and the California Legislature, Presiding Judge...
View ArticleEcuadoreans Eye Assets of Chevron in Argentina
(CN) - Still angling to collect a $19 billion environmental judgment against Chevron, a group of indigenous Ecuadoreans say they are filing an enforcement action Thursday in Argentina. The...
View ArticleBankruptcy
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Western Biomass Energy filed for bankruptcy, declaring $2.9 million in assets and $35.4 million in debts.
View ArticleShareholder Class Action
PORTLAND, Ore. - Cascade Corp. is selling itself too cheaply through an unfair process to Toyota to benefit Cascade insiders, for $65 a share or $759 million, a union pension fund claims in...
View ArticleTech Patent
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Ziplink claims GoDaddy violates two patents on electronic messaging, in Federal Court. It also sued AOL, in Hartford Federal Court.
View ArticleNaughty Teacher
WAUKEGAN, Ill. - Lake Zurich High School teacher Ronald D. Culver sexually abused a boy after the board of education and superintendent had been put on notice about his behavior, the boy claims in...
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