Calif. High Court Pulled Into Target Liability Case
(CN) - The California Supreme Court should provide guidance on demands that all retailers there need defibrillators for customer emergencies, the 9th Circuit said Tuesday. Mary Ann Verdugo...
View ArticleInmates Demand Warning Labels on Alcohol
BOISE, Idaho (CN) - Five state prison inmates say in Federal Court that alcohol manufacturers should be required to post warning labels that alcohol is addictive. In a pro se complaint, the...
View ArticleOpen Meetings Challenge to Right-to-Work Law
LANSING, Mich. (CN) - The Michigan House of Representatives approved its "right-to-work" law illegally last week, while police locked the public out of the state Capitol, a union member claims in an...
View ArticleSleazy Scam Took $1.6 Million, USA Claims
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Two scammers posing as government agencies defrauded people of $1.6 million in a "mortgage assistance" scam they called the National Legal Help Center and other names, the U.S....
View ArticleDuke Cunningham Sent to Halfway House
SAN DIEGO (CN) - Former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham, serving eight years in federal prison for bribery and tax evasion, has been sent to a halfway house in New Orleans and will be released...
View ArticleWar Veteran Says Cops Injured His Brain
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Oakland police shot an Iraq war veteran in the head with a bean bag round during Occupy Oakland protests last year, inflicting permanent brain injuries and nearly killing him,...
View ArticleKaiser Faces $800K Suit for Age Discrimination
PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) - A registered nurse sued Kaiser Permanente Hospitals for $800,000 for age discrimination, in Multnomah County Court. Robert Cook, 61, has 35 years of nursing experience in...
View Article$10 Billion Tobacco Case Is Dead
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (CN) - A multibillion-dollar class action against tobacco giant Philip Morris cannot be reopened, a Madison County judge said. Judge Dennis Ruth found that the plaintiffs...
View ArticleMediPot Groups Say County Changed the Rules
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) - Two medical marijuana dispensaries sued Kern County, claiming they spent a total of $99,000 to set up under state and local laws, only to have the county fine them...
View ArticleBarred for Muslim Dress, Cabbie Says
ST. LOUIS (CN) - St. Louis' Taxicab Commission took away a cab driver's license because he wore Muslim dress at an airport, the cabbie claims in court. Raja Awais Naeem sued the city, its...
View ArticleStudent Loan Opponents Eye Keybank Injunction
PASADENA, Calif. (CN) - KeyBank student loan recipients urged the full 9th Circuit to suspend payment obligations they deem fraudulent, but the bank says the matter must first go to arbitration....
View ArticleChristian Preschool Boots Child of Gay Couple
ALBUQUERQUE (CN) - A Christian preschool accepted a child and then booted him out when it found that his parents are a gay male couple, the men claim in court. Joseph Romero and John Keelin sued...
View ArticleVirginia Inmates Can Fight Over Medical Care
(CN) - A federal judge refused to dismiss a class action alleging that a women's prison in Virginia fails to treat medical conditions as a way to cut costs. Five prisoners at Fluvanna...
View Article'Pawn Stars' Ex-Agent Sues History Channel
(CN) - A talent agency that represented stars of The History Channel's "Pawn Stars" claims in court that it lost millions of dollars when another agency interfered with its contract. Check out...
View ArticleCalif. Dumping Hazards to Cost Walgreens $16M
(CN) - Walgreens will pay $16.57 million to settle claims that it illegally dumped hazardous waste and confidential patient records in the trash, a California judge ruled. The complaint, filed...
View ArticleBank Says Big Shot Pulled a Fast One
WEST PALM BEACH (CN) - A South Florida developer with political clout shuffled millions of dollars to relatives and his affiliated companies to duck more than $21 million in judgments, a bank...
View ArticleDeaf Moviegoers Provoke Wash. Theater Changes
(CN) - Cinemas in Washington state discriminated against deaf moviegoers by failing to provide closed captioning, a state appeals court ruled. The Washington State Communication Access...
View Article'Storage Wars' Is a Fake, Fired Actor Says
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A&E TV's so-called reality show "Storage Wars" is bogus, and plants cool stuff in storage lockers for dramatic effect, a fired cast member claims in court. Read...
View ArticleApple Defends Charges for Duplicate Downloads
SAN JOSE (CN) - ITunes clearly discloses that multiple charges accompany multiple downloads of the same song, Apple said, urging a federal judge to toss a class action. Robert Herskowitz and...
View ArticleMurder Victim's Family Sues Gun Website
CHICAGO (CN) - An online gun dealer that "facilitates illegal gun sales to unlawful gun buyers with no background checks" sold the .40 caliber pistol a stalker used to murder a man's sister, the...
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