Injunction Still Possible in Nigerian Bribery Case
HOUSTON (CN) - The Securities and Exchange Commission can press for an injunction against two offshore drilling company officers who allegedly bribed Nigerian officials, a federal judge ruled....
View ArticleU.S.-Backed Project Threatens Australia'sGreat Barrier Reef,...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - The U.S. Export-Import Bank illegally supplied $2.95 billion for a "massive fossil fuel project" that could pollute Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the hundreds of species...
View ArticleAuthority Reinforced for European Central Bank
(CN) - EU lawmakers will hand the European Central Bank sweeping supervisory powers to bolster a new stability mechanism in the wake of the deepening debt crisis. The Council of the European...
View ArticleInsurer Disputes Duty to Bar Useless Policies
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) - EBay clearly discloses that it excludes coins and other items from its ShipCover insurance, even if it will sell the policy to anyone who wants it, the company's insurance...
View ArticleSF Officials Dress Down Lawsuit Over Nudity Ban
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A new ban on public nudity in the city-county of San Francisco ordinance does not violate free-speech rights, officials told a federal judge. Mitch Hightower, Oxane...
View ArticleBoat Owner Accused of Taking Perilous Course
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A woman drowned during a yacht race because the skippers chose a course too close to the rocks of the Farallon Islands, her father claims in court. James Busch says his...
View ArticleHack Snared Judge's Husband, Defense Says
MANHATTAN (CN) - New York's chief federal judge should be disqualified from hearing hacking charges because her husband's information was exposed in the defendant's alleged cyberattack, lawyers...
View ArticleCounty and City Claim Immunity in Abuse Case
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A California county and two of its child protective services workers insist that they are not liable for the decades of sexual abuse experienced by six sisters. Zion Dutro...
View ArticleAncient, Rickety Railroad BridgeCaused Toxic Spill, Dozens Say
PHILADELPHIA (CN) - Sixty people were hospitalized after 100,000 gallons of vinyl chloride spilled from railcars on a poorly maintained bridge two weeks ago, causing a toxic cloud so thick "you...
View ArticleCircuit Approves Health Care Cuts in California
PASADENA, Calif. (CN) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did not violate federal law with a 10 percent funding cut to a California program, the 9th Circuit has ruled. In spring...
View ArticleNew Terms Laid Out in Judicial Information Battle
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - California's Judicial Council on Friday changed its policy on information requests, in response to growing interest from judges in the judiciary's financial affairs. The...
View ArticleRights Court Rebukes Secret CIA Renditions
(CN) - Macedonia should not have transferred custody of a German man to CIA agents who tortured him secretly for five months, the European Court of Human Rights ruled. Seventeen judges agreed...
View ArticleTaxpayers Sue Whittier Over Oil Leases
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Taxpayers claim Whittier misused money meant to preserve open space, and want the city's revenue from oil leases in a nature preserve to go to Los Angeles County instead of the...
View Article'This Is What Happens When You Get Involved'
BROOKLYN (CN) - An artist honored by the White House for AIDS activism sued New York City, claiming police illegally arrested her for filming officers stopping and frisking black teenagers outside...
View ArticleDiscrimination
LOS ANGELES - An executive director/regional manager claims a sexist Morgan Stanley Smith Barney fired her though she "was ranked number 1 out of the other 18 directors nationwide," in Superior...
View ArticleUSA Took the Money & Ran, Businessman Says
TUCSON (CN) - The United States seized $1.2 million from a Mexican businessman's Arizona bank accounts, while investigating an alleged drug trafficking scheme in which he had no part, the elderly...
View ArticleSuing Pfizer
PHILADELPHIA - A woman claims her boss at Pfizer demanded, and got, blow jobs from her, after which Pfizer fired her for having an "inappropriate relationship" with him, in Federal Court.
View ArticleBeaten Inmate Sues Indicted Jailer
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A Los Angeles County jailer charged with assaulting inmates and falsifying police reports faces a damages claim from one of his alleged victims. Derek Griscavage aka Derek...
View ArticleFamily May Nail Landfill Operators on Pollution
(CN) - New Jersey landfill operators must face public nuisance claims for allegedly contaminating air and groundwater with volatile chemicals, a federal judge ruled. Anthony and Marianne...
View ArticleLawmaker Loses Appeal of Bribery Conviction
RICHMOND, Val (CN) - Emails on a public computer between a Virginia state senator and his wife were fair game as evidence to convict him of bribery and extortion, the 4th Circuit ruled. State...
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