Continent-Wide Price-FixingAlleged in Drywall Industry
CHICAGO (CN) - Drywall manufacturers conspired to raise prices by 35 percent this year and stopped offering discounts for big jobs to monitor any "defection" from the conspiracy, which involves...
View ArticleFeds Pull Penguin IntoE-Book Price-Fixing Deal
MANHATTAN (CN) - Penguin Group has agreed to end its price-fixing agreements with other e-book retailers, the Justice Department said, noting that it is still pursuing charges against Apple and...
View ArticleAbout That Hedge Fund ...
MINEOLA, N.Y. - A man claims he gave Ronald Feldstein, MJJS Corp. et al. $150,000 for a supposed hedge fund investment, immediately became suspicious and demanded it back, but never saw it again,...
View ArticlePatton Boggs & Chevron to Square Off in New York
MANHATTAN (CN) - A New York federal judge will decide whether Patton Boggs lawyers can collect a $21.8 million bond that Chevron posted to thwart multibillion-dollar collection efforts....
View ArticleApple Says Users' Privacy Claims Fall Far Short
(CN) - Apple says it deserves summary judgment in a federal class action that says iPhones and iPads collect and distribute users' personal information. The multidistrict litigation at issue...
View ArticleCalif.'s Central District Gets New Judge Ratified
(CN) - The Senate has confirmed by voice vote the nomination of U.S. Magistrate Judge Fernando Olguin to serve as a district judge for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of...
View ArticleHollywood Group Fights Super Target Store
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A citizens group claims in court that Los Angeles illegally approved a Super Target store in their Hollywood neighborhood. La Mirada Avenue Neighborhood Association of...
View ArticleWorker Claims Kaiser Fired Her Unfairly
FRESNO, Calif. (CN) - A Kaiser Permanente Hospital fired a worker for complaining about sexual harassment and taking FMLA leave to care for her sick husband, she claims in court. Janice...
View ArticleOyster Farm Asks Court to Keep It in Business
(CN) - A California man and his decades-old oyster farm want a temporary restraining order as they face an order from the federal government to shut down. Kevin Lunny says he and his wife,...
View ArticleLegal Battle Over Cell Tower in Sierras
NEVADA CITY, Calif. (CN) - A married couple launched a new round in a year-long legal battle over a proposed cell tower on a "visually important ridgeline" near the Tahoe National Forest. Juliet...
View ArticleSlavery Remark Won't Tank Union Election
(CN) - The 4th Circuit upheld a union election at a nursing facility that an NAACP director slammed for treating its nursing assistants like "chattel enslaved captives." Supervisors with...
View ArticleNFL Players Challenge Workers' Comp Ruling
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Dozens of former NFL players claim in court that an arbitration award barring them from seeking workers' compensation in California "offends" state public policy and ignores...
View ArticleOusted Football Coach Given Reduced Award
(CN) - A Division I college football coach can keep just a fraction of the $503,500 that a jury awarded him for wrongful termination, a Louisiana Appeals Court ruled. Grambling State...
View ArticleHeld Hostage in the Congo
HOUSTON (CN) - A pilot claims in court that Democratic Republic of Congo officials jailed him for 6 weeks after he was caught in an energy company CEO's attempt to buy more than half of ton of...
View ArticleApple Violates Patents Once Held by Sony, Nokia
(CN) - A federal jury found that Apple's iOS devices infringe on three patents held by MobileMedia Ideas, which has gained a reputation in the tech world as a "patent troll." The...
View ArticleD.C. Circuit Revives Cherokee Slaves' Case
WASHINGTON (CN) - The D.C. Circuit reversed dismissal of a case against the Cherokee Nation, by descendents of its freed slaves who claimed the tribe disenfranchised them in violation of an 1866...
View ArticleTheStreet Deals With SEC on Accounting Fraud
(CN) - TheStreet.com, a financial news website created by television personality Jim Cramer, and three of its executives have settled claims of filing false financial reports. In three federal...
View ArticleClassic Pedophilia Complaints Against School
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (CN) - A third-grade teacher lured little boys with candy and sexually abused them by "disciplining" them in a classroom closet, parents claim in two federal complaints. Both...
View ArticleIllegal Immigrant Loses Fight to Bear Arms
(CN) - The Second Amendment right to bear arms does not extend to people who are in the United States illegally, the 4th Circuit ruled. While searching the Orangeburg, S.C., home of Mexican...
View ArticleBlatant Racism
LOUISVILLE (CN) - The Maker's Mark Bourbon House and Lounge "demanded to know the ratio of 'black people' to 'white people'" who planned to attend a public event, then denied entrance to every...
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