Student Accuses Argosy U of Fraud & Bias
CHICAGO (CN) - Argosy University defrauded a master's student by booting her after she complained of discrimination, and a professor who had never examined her accused her of having "narcissistic...
View ArticleCouple Deserve Damages for Whirlpool Fridge Fire
ST. LOUIS (CN) - Whirlpool is liable after one of its refrigerators caused a fire that destroyed a southern Missouri couple's home, the 8th Circuit ruled. Randy and Antoinette Russell's home...
View ArticleChinese Man Says He Was Rolled in the USA
TROY, N.Y. (CN) - A Chinese businessman claims he paid an Upstate car dealer $63,200 for a new Porsche Cayenne, and the Carmax Auto Plaza never delivered it - in fact, never even ordered it from...
View ArticleLandfill Cleanup Is a Money Pit for Ex-Owners
CHICAGO (CN) - Owners and insurers connected to an Indiana landfill abandoned in the early 1980s may have to shell out additional funds for cleanup efforts, the 7th Circuit ruled. From 1977 to...
View ArticleWoman Decries Bias at Mormon-Led Company
SALT LAKE CITY (CN) - The nation's largest shooting range equipment maker discriminated against an employee because she's not Mormon, and the CEO told her "women should not get educations, unless...
View Article9th Circuit's Say Awaited in Bid for Concealed Gun
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A man who is suing to carry a concealed weapon in Santa Clara County will have to wait for the 9th Circuit's resolution of related cases, a federal judge ruled. In a 2011...
View ArticleCourt Upholds San Diego Lease to Boy Scouts
PASADENA, Calif. (CN) - Cities can lease land to the Boy Scouts even though the organization discriminates on the basis of religion and sexual orientation, the 9th Circuit ruled Thursday. In...
View ArticleInjunction Hearing on Offender Disclosure Law
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Registered sex offenders have the same free-speech rights as everyone else, and this leaves criminal speech vulnerable, lawmakers told a federal judge. California Deputy...
View ArticleEx-Official Says SAG Pension Plan Defamed Him
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A former Screen Actors Guild official claims in court that the SAG pension fund defamed him in a letter to thousands of members, "shortly after he reported illegal misconduct...
View ArticleCalifornia Diesel Rules Dodge Truckers' Lawsuit
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) - Dump truck owners failed to bring a proper legal challenge against California regulations to reduce diesel emissions, a federal judge ruled. The California Air...
View ArticleMost Duke Lacrosse Claims Tossed on Appeal
(CN) - The 4th Circuit restricted the malicious-prosecution claims that investigators must face from the Duke lacrosse players whom they falsely accused of rape in 2006. Prosecutors in Durham...
View ArticleNew EU Food Rules Aim at Breast-Feeding Foes
(CN) - EU lawmakers approved new rules against labeling infant formula in a way that discourages breast-feeding or advertising it in that manner. The new regulation provides a framework that...
View ArticleBoehner Adjourns HouseWith No Budget Deal
WASHINGTON (CN) - Speaker of the House John Boehner adjourned the House Thursday night without a budget deal, punting the problem to President Obama and the Senate. Boehner could not persuade...
View ArticleUnconscionable Gouging After Storm, NY Says
ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) - An upstate tree service gouged consumers with "repeated and persistent illegal conduct" after Hurricane Irene, charging $20,000 and more to remove trees after "show(ing) up...
View ArticleMilitary 'Spies' Face Trial for Disturbing Protests
(CN) - An anti-war group can advance claims that two civilian U.S. Army employees spied on its members and secretly disrupted protests, the 9th Circuit ruled. Five years ago, Port...
View ArticleL.A. Continues Water War Against State
LOS ANGELES (CN) - In the latest blow in a decades-old saga, Los Angeles claims the state did not give it a fair chance to challenge its demand to do more to reduce toxic dust pollution in Owens...
View ArticleNavy Can't Freeze Out Journalist, Judge Says
WASHINGTON (CN) - A journalist deserves confirmation as to whether the U.S. Strategic Command is investigating a Navy captain for creating an abusive command climate, a federal judge ruled....
View ArticleEthics Draft Brings Judges' Uproar
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Judges up and down the state are shaking their heads over a draft opinion from California's judicial ethics committee that would limit what judges can say. The...
View ArticlePost-Katrina Shooting Convictions Upended
(CN) - The 5th Circuit vacated the manslaughter conviction of a former New Orleans police officer who shot a man to death in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. David Warren has been serving...
View ArticleSix Flags
FAIRFIELD, Calif. - Six Flags Discovery Kingdom stiffed workers for overtime, a class action claims in Solano County Court.
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