Whalers Win Shield From So-Called Pirates
SEATTLE (CN) - Activists must stay 500 yards away from Japanese whaling vessels and are barred from "physically attacking" the ships and crew, the 9th Circuit ruled. The Sea Shepherd...
View ArticleUSA Stops MovingSouthern Sea Otters
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has ended its 25-year-old translocation program for endangered southern sea otters off the Southern California coast because it hasn't worked....
View ArticlePop Duo's Dad Sues Nick Cassavetes
LOS ANGELES (CN) - The father of Canadian pop stars Carmen and Camille sued film director Nick Cassavetes, claiming he broke a promise to cast the twin sisters in a movie, use their music on the...
View ArticleDe Facto Life Sentences Contemplated in the 7th
CHICAGO (CN) - An otherwise run-of-the-mill sentencing appeal became a forum for 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner to air his views on de facto life sentences. For three years, David Craig had...
View ArticleLured Into Indentured Servitude, Woman Says
(CN) - A Philippines Consulate employee lured a woman to the United States to work for her, then dished her off to people who put her to forced labor for nearly a year and loaned her out to...
View ArticleManipulating Libor to Cost UBS $1.5 Billion
MANHATTAN (CN) - UBS will pay $1.5 billion in fines and penalties after its Japan division pleaded guilty to manipulating the London interbank offered rate, or Libor. The criminal information...
View ArticleSore Loser Must Pay $5 Million toMiss Universe Pageant, Judge Says
MANHATTAN (CN) - A Miss USA contestant who didn't make the semifinals must pay $5 million for defaming the pageant by claiming it was "rigged" and "trashy," for, among other things, allowing...
View ArticleFired Dispatcher Loses Suit Over Phone Break-In
(CN) - A police dispatcher in Texas whose bosses looked through her cellphone after a cop's wife sneaked it out of her locker cannot sue, the 5th Circuit ruled. Fannie Garcia had clamed that...
View ArticleFalse Claims
WASHINGTON - The USA seeks treble damages and $11,000 per false claim on the Wilber J. Cohen building project, from Hardie Industries and Darrell K. Hardie, who is in prison, in Federal Court.
View ArticleFormaldehyde in the Air
BOSTON - Solutia and Ineos Melamines are polluting the air with formaldehyde and methanol from the Indian Orchard auto paint plant in Springfield, Mass., Uncle Sam claims in Federal Court.
View ArticleSalmonella
LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The United States claims Sunland and its CEO Jimmie D. Shearer, of Portales, N.M., shipped nuts and nut butters contaminated with salmonella, in Federal Court.
View ArticleTraveling Mummies
DETROIT - Wolf Capital Partners accuses Clark Hill PLC of breach of fiduciary duty regarding an exhibit of 36 mummies from Guanajuato, Mexico, traveling around the United States, in Federal Court.
View ArticleSulfuric Acid Mist
FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky Utilities Co.'s coal-fired electric plant in Ghent, Ky. pollutes the air with sulfuric acid mist, the United States claims in Federal Court.
View ArticlePublic Records
WASHINGTON - Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility claims the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement blew off its FOIA requests for information on Royal Dutch Shell's...
View ArticleAdviser Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion
ST. LOUIS (CN) - A much-sued tax adviser pleaded guilty Thursday to federal tax evasion. Frank L. "Tiger" Zerjav Jr., 39, of Wildwood, Mo., pleaded guilty to four counts of tax evasion from...
View ArticleBirthers
WASHINGTON - A federal judge has dismissed yet another complaint from disbarred attorney Montgomery Blair Sibley alleging that President Barack Obama lied about being born in the United States.
View ArticleCounterfeit Nike Smuggler Faces Hard Time
SAN DIEGO (CN) - A suburban San Diego man pleaded guilty Thursday to importing and selling $1 million worth of counterfeit Nike Air Jordan shoes made in China. Steven Ray Holliday, 31, of El...
View ArticleFlorida Contamination to Cost Lockheed $3M More
(CN) - Lockheed Martin should pay $3 million for breaching an environmental agreement stemming from a spill at its beryllium plant in Florida, a jury found. After learning that its site in...
View ArticleEli Lilly Coughs Up $29 Million for Bribes
WASHINGTON (CN) - Eli Lilly & Co. will pay $29 million to settle charges of bribing foreign officials for contracts in four countries, the SEC said Thursday. Lilly subsidiaries paid off...
View ArticleCop Owes $7K for Jailing Man Who Shredded Flag
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (CN) - A man who was arrested for shredding the American flag deserves $7,000 in compensatory damages, a federal judge ruled. Frank Snider III had tried to burn a flag in...
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