Corrupt Sheriff Wants out of Prison Early
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Former Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona claims that a trial court mistakenly sentenced him to 66 months in prison for corruption by using honest services fraud as an...
View ArticleObama Sends Diesel Heating Oil to Northeast
WASHINGTON (CN) - President Barack Obama announced a transfer of diesel heating oil to communities in the Northeast affected by Hurricane Sandy. The hurricane caused severe damage to the...
View ArticleWhat Is This, Russia?
LINCOLN, Neb. (CN) - A deputy claims in court that his journal describing six years of corruption in the Sheriff's Office was taken from his home, and that the sheriff then tossed it onto a table...
View ArticleCitibank Clients Wrap Up Reduced Credit Suit
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A federal judge gave preliminary approval to a settlement for home owners who said that Citibank reduced their credit by using an automated valuation program. Citibank...
View ArticleDead State Senator Re-Elected in Texas
HOUSTON (CN) - Texans re-elected a dead state senator Tuesday, setting up a special election to determine who will replace him. State Sen. Mario Gallegos Jr., the first Latino elected to the...
View ArticlePower Company Accused of Stymieing Discovery
DALLAS (CN) - A disabled man who says he developed heat exhaustion because First Choice Power arbitrarily cut his electricity wants a judge to compel discovery. Randy Rhodes, of Stephenville,...
View ArticleWoman Says Coca-Cola Heir Assaulted Her
LOS ANGELES (CN) - TV host Alki David, an heir to a Coca-Cola fortune, assaulted a woman on the air, grabbing her by her underwear and throwing her into a plastic bin, the woman claims in court....
View ArticleDexatrim Evades Suit Over Chromium Content
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A federal judge dismissed claims that the maker of the Dexatrim weight-loss supplement concealed the use of a hazardous chemical ingredient. U.S. District Judge Charles...
View ArticleExec Claims Bank Fired Him forReporting Rothstein's Ponzi Scam
MIAMI (CN) - A top executive claims in court that his bank fired him for reporting suspicious activity in Scott Rothstein's Ponzi scheme before it made headlines, because the bank wanted to keep...
View ArticleBell Nunnally Settles Legal Malpractice Suit
DALLAS (CN) - A pair of telecom equipment and wireless network field services firms settled their legal malpractice lawsuit against Dallas-based Bell Nunnally & Martin. American...
View ArticleClass Sues 'World of Warcraft' Publisher
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Publishers of "World of Warcraft" and other blockbuster video games make millions by "deceptively and unfairly" charging customers for an after-sale security product to protect...
View ArticleHarborside Oakland Site Faces Landlord's Wrath
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland property owner wants a federal judge to stop a medical marijuana dispensary facing forfeiture proceedings from operating on its premises. Ana Chretien asked U.S....
View ArticleAlarming Tale From Dentists' Office
DENVER (CN) - A dentist's history of "getting high before performing surgeries" and reusing needles ruined his partner's dental practice, the partner claims in court. Neil G. Dobro, D.M.D.,...
View ArticleApple-Google Showdown Shelved in Wisconsin
MADISCON, Wisc. (CN) - Apple cannot sue Motorola Mobility, now a Google subsidiary, for patent infringement, a federal judge ruled, in one tentacle of the sprawling smartphone patent war. The...
View ArticleStrapped EU Bosses Can Nix Vacation to Keep Jobs
(CN) - Europe's highest court on Thursday upheld vacation-reduction agreements between struggling companies and unions. The dispute rose after German auto industry subcontractor Kaiser GmbH...
View ArticleDisabled Veteran Fights for His Puppy
FRANKFORT, Ky. (CN) - A disabled veteran claims in court that a nonprofit is trying to take his service dog away because of a bogus, anonymous call claiming he drove drunk with the dog. Eric...
View ArticleLawyer Fights Obtrusive Subpoena From Activist
DALLAS (CN) - A Friedman & Feiger lawyer asked a judge to quash harassing subpoenas by an activist who allegedly poses as her in emails to Wal-Mart. Melissa Kingston sued Avi Adelman in...
View ArticleApple & Samsung Can Get Fees Off Each Other
(CN) - A federal judge reduced the amount of attorneys' fees that Apple and Samsung owe each other as sanctions in the multibillion patent dispute. Apple accused Korean electronics giant...
View ArticleReporters Barred From Pennsylvania Poll Sites
(CN) - The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cannot sue local officials over laws that restrict the ability of reports to cover the election and new identification rules, a federal judge ruled. The...
View ArticleVictims Share Stories as Loughner Goes Away for Hundreds of Years
TUCSON, Ariz. (CN) - Mass murderer Jared Lee Loughner was sentenced Thursday to seven consecutive life terms plus 140 years for the fatal shooting spree that nearly ended the life of former...
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