California Justices Deal Major Blow to City Redevelopment Agencies
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - California's high court upheld a bill Thursday that empowers the Legislature to dissolve city redevelopment agencies, and it struck down a companion bill that lets the...
View ArticleSheriff in the Clear for Arrest in Sniper Case
(CN) - A military-trained marksman has stumbled in his efforts to sue investigators who arrested him after a sniper shot down a police helicopter and the evidence initially pointed his way.
View ArticleGerman Court Clears Samsung's Latest Tablet
(CN) - Samsung's reworked Galaxy Tab 10.1 no longer appears to infringe on Apple's intellectual property, a German court ruled this week in a preliminary assessment.
View ArticlePopulation Growth for 2012, U.S. Census Says
WASHINGTON (CN) - There will be more than 312 million people ringing in the new year in the United States on Jan. 1, 2012, a population increase of 0.7 percent, according new projections from the...
View ArticleJudge Puts Activists' Circus Protest on Ice
PHILADELPHIA (CN) - The operator of the Wells Fargo Center can prevent protesters from demonstrating in a nearby parking lot, a federal judge ruled, dashing the dreams of an activist who...
View ArticleAfter Singing Praise of CCMS DealCourt Leaders Beat Hasty Retreat
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) -- After calling him a "white knight" and an "angel in the wings," California's court leaders on Thursday abruptly halted talks with pharmaceutical mogul Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong...
View ArticleMoney Saved at Misdiagnosed Vets' Expense
NEW HAVEN (CN) - The Vietnam Veterans of America says the Pentagon has "systematically and wrongfully discharged" more than 22,000 veterans since 2001 "on the basis of so-called 'personality...
View ArticleMultimillion Award in Fatal Marine Jet Crash
(CN) - A San Diego area family won more than $12 million in damages for the 2008 crash of a U.S. Marine Corps fighter jet, which incinerated their home and killed two women and two infants.
View ArticleOSHA Whacks Pipemaker for $1 Million in Fines
HOUSTON (CN) - Federal regulators whacked a pipemaker with more than $1 million in fines for 30 workplace safety violations after an employee's tip led to an investigation of Piping Technology and...
View ArticlePort Authority Retirees Fight for Free Tolls
MORRISTOWN, N.J. (CN) - A retired police officer filed a class action against the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for revoking Port Authority retirees' rights to free tolls for life.
View ArticleThe Town Too Tough to Die Sues the USA
TUCSON (CN) - Tombstone, "the town too tough to die," says it's running out of water because the U.S. Forest Service refuses to allow crews into nearby mountain wilderness areas to repair water...
View ArticleFirm Says It Was Rolled in NHL Deal
WEST PALM BEACH (CN) - An investment firms claims it paid $243,500 in consulting fees for its bid to buy the Phoenix Coyotes NHL team, but the consultants "kept the money and failed to deliver any...
View Article'Dirty Filthy Lies,' Hey?
BROOKLYN (CN) - Before he killed himself, a crooked securities broker who wrote the book "The Dirty, Filthy Lies My Broker Told Me" took an elderly couple for $250,000, and rolled at least nine...
View ArticleWin Some, Lose Some for Washington and PACs
(CN) - Washington cannot ban large contributions to political action committees within three weeks of an election, but it can require disclosures about the donors and their employers, the 9th...
View ArticleFDIC Deception Will Cost a Virginia Man $79,000
(CN) - An Ethiopian man who deposited $165,000 in small increments to banks near his home in Virginia without informing Uncle Sam must forfeit $79,650, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleContractor's Legal Fees to Be Comped by Al Jazeera
(CN) - Al Jazeera owes about $127,000 in legal fees for its fight with a construction company that built the international news network a state-of-the-art television studio and office space in...
View ArticleBank Still Faces Suit Over Unaffordable Loan
(CN) - A Spanish-speaking couple who signed a refinancing contract written in English after a six-hour, high-pressure pitch from a Countrywide mortgage broker will get a second shot to prove that...
View ArticleCourt Wants More Study on Montana Rail Project
(CN) - Economic regulators did not take a "hard look" at the environmental impacts of a railway project in Montana that aims to facilitate coal transportation to Midwestern power plants, the 9th...
View ArticleThe Halliburton Whistle-Blower Ship Has Sailed
(CN) - A federal judge has dismissed with prejudice allegations that Halliburton and KBR billed the government for water-purification services on U.S. military bases in Iraq that they never...
View ArticleInformercial Stars Won't Face SEC Fraud Claims
(CN) - The personalities behind Teach Me to Trade infomercials cannot be held personally liable on claims that they lied about their expertise as securities traders to dupe millions out of...
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