Out of Control at the Outback?
ST. LOUIS (CN) - Outback Steakhouse failed to control an unruly patron who threw a glass that hit a woman in the face, the woman claims in City Court. Annette Maschmeier says her waitress and...
View ArticleGuilty Plea in Missile Parts-for-Iran Case
EL PASO (CN) - A British businessman pleaded guilty to buying missile parts from undercover federal agents to sell them to Iran. Christopher Tappin, 66, of Orpington, Kent, changed his plea...
View ArticleFamily Law Firm Doesn't Get it, Lawyer Says
DALLAS (CN) - A Dallas family law firm fired an attorney after she became pregnant, the woman claims in court. Carson E. Steinbauer sued GoransonBain PLLC in Dallas County Court. She claims the...
View ArticlePatent Fight Over Electronic Trading Cards
DALLAS (CN) - A Texas holding company claims in court that a Hasbro subsidiary violated its electronic trading-card patent by publishing "Magic: The Gathering Online." Wildcat Intellectual...
View ArticleAsphyxia Brain Damaged 2nd Twin, Mom Says
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) - Kaiser Permanente's botched prenatal, labor, delivery and post-natal care for a pregnancy, leaving her baby brain damaged, says a newborn's mother in a complaint filed in...
View ArticleMed Tech Shareholders Challenge Done Deal
DALLAS (CN) - Former shareholders of medical software firm Vocada claim Nuance Communications fraudulently induced a merger and refused to make millions of dollars in payments after the deal was...
View ArticleLegionnaire's Disease
CHICAGO - A man died in August of Legionnaire's disease he contracted from a fountain in the lobby of the Marriott International hotel on West Adams Street in Chicago, his estate claims in Cook...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists Sue State Over Flying Fish
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - California is stocking lakes by dumping nonnative fish from airplanes without permits, an environmental group claims in Federal Court. Check out Courthouse News'...
View ArticleProgressive Business
PHILADELPHIA - Progressive Business Publications illegally docks call-center employees for short bathroom and water breaks, the Secretary of Labor claims in Federal Court.
View ArticleStrip Club Workers File Labor Class Action
LITTLE ROCK (CN) - Employees of an Arkansas strip club say its owners stiffed them for overtime and minimum wages, in a federal class action. Click here to read Courthouse News' Entertainment...
View ArticleEmployment
OAKLAND, Calif. - AT&T stiffed information technology managers for overtime for four years, a class action claims in Alameda County Court.
View ArticleDemoted For 'Lack of Faith,' Worker Claims
INDIANAPOLIS (CN) - A restaurant owner demoted a manager, telling him his "faith was not strong enough," because he refused to hand out Christian tracts to his workers, the man claims in court....
View ArticlePfizer Antitrust Suit Stays in Federal Court
(CN) - A federal judge in New Jersey refused to send RP Healthcare's antitrust case against Pfizer to California, or to stay discovery in the matter. Chimes Pharmacy and RP Healthcare sued...
View ArticleEmployee Says Authors Took Liberties
TULSA (CN) - Young-adult book authors P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast defamed their former personal assistant as a "traitorous, skanky ho" in their "House of Night" teen vampire book series, the...
View Article11 Years Later, Scammers Owe Class Counsel $4M
MIAMI (CN) - A federal judge awarded about $4 million in attorneys' fees and costs to a class that sued over the massive Ponzi scheme operated by Cash 4 Titles. The Securities and Exchange...
View ArticleInsurance Adjusters on Holiday ...
(CN) - Insurance adjusters on holiday assaulted a woman who tried to stop them from videotaping a drunk woman dancing on a stripper pole on their bus trip to Southern California's wine country,...
View ArticleSouth Korea Gets Green Light to Try 1997 Murder
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A federal judge found an American accused of stabbing a man to death in South Korea 12 years ago can be extradited, pending approval from the Secretary of State. In 1997, a...
View ArticleTruTV Caught Red-Handed, Writers Say
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Two Angelenos claim in court that TruTV stole their trade secrets for "Caught Red Handed," a reality show about undercover store detectives. Click here to read Courthouse...
View ArticleHome Depot May Pay for Fatal Forklift Accident
(CN) -The representative of a man who was killed after getting injured by a forklift left in front of a Home Depot can seek punitive damages, a federal judge ruled. As James C. Devlin walked...
View ArticleParaplegic Claims Abusive Cop Flat-Out Lied
LAS VEGAS (CN) - A wheelchair-bound paraplegic claims in court that a Las Vegas police officer broke his back, then claimed, absurdly, that he had run away after a traffic stop. Tracey Pope,...
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