Protective Efforts Still Needed for CA Forest Plan
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Four government agencies must show care for endangered species as they fight California forest fires, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleCalifornia Fuel Standards Raise Issues With Global Warming Law
SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) - California cannot enact and enforce fuel standards that conflict with federal law, a federal judge ruled, effectively striking down portions of the state's Global Warming...
View ArticleMojave Tortoise Doesn't Need Hunting Limits
WASHINGTON (CN) - The National Park Service does not have to protect desert tortoises with special hunting rules in the Mojave National Preserve, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleFederal Judge Halts Cuts to California Medicaid
(CN) - Several California health care entities that challenged cuts in the state's Medicaid program won a federal injunction against the director of the Department of Health Care Services.
View ArticleQuarterback Sues Law Firm in Class Action
CHICAGO (CN) - Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Kyle Orton is lead plaintiff in a class action that claims a Chicago law firm cost investors millions of dollars with bad advice about a landfill...
View ArticleNRC OKs WestinghouseNuclear Reactor
WASHINGTON (CN) - Nuclear power developers can build Westinghouse AP1000 reactors without demonstrating in their applications the safety of the design, under new rules adopted by the Nuclear...
View ArticleSplit Decisions on Courthouse Nativity Scenes
LUBBOCK, Texas (CN) - A religious display that included a baby Jesus, a cross and a sign, "Reunite the church and state ..." was removed last week from the entrance to the Lubbock County...
View ArticleGE Pays $30 Million to Settle Medicare Case
(CN) - GE Healthcare will pay $30 million to settle allegations that Amersham Health, which GE acquired in 2004, violated the False Claims Act by causing Medicare to overpay for Myoview, a...
View ArticleWoman Blames Drunk KickballLeague for Her Broken Clavicle
(CN) - A kickball league encouraged its teams to play drunk, claims a member of the "Kicking Under the Influence" team, who says her collarbone was broken by a drunken player on the team "Drink...
View ArticleAnother Guilty Plea to Bid-Rigging
(CN) - A Beverly Hills-based financial firm and its owner pleaded guilty to federal charges of rigging bids and auctions in the municipal bond market.
View ArticleFired Chicago Teachers File Class Action
CHICAGO (CN) - To save money, but in violation of a collective bargaining agreement, the Chicago Board of Education fired teachers who were on the verge of completing their 20th year in the...
View ArticleFBI Didn't Need Warrant, Judge Says
ST. LOUIS (CN) - The FBI did not need a warrant to secretly install a GPS tracking device on a St. Louis City Treasurer's Office employee accused of not showing up for work, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleTeacher Says He Was Fired for Writing a Book
CHICAGO (CN) - A public school teacher whose book was published by the University of Chicago Press claims he was fired because a "student's mother took issue with 'Gabriel's Fire,' a memoir about...
View ArticleMixed Martial Arts Fighter Taken to Court
DALLAS (CN) - Dutch mixed martial artist and kickboxer Alistair Overeem will have to wait to collect his $385,000 fight purse from last Friday's Ultimate Fighting Championship pay-per-view contest...
View ArticleCement Maker Ordered to Clean It Up
(CN) - Pennsylvania-based Essroc Cement Co. will pay $1.7 million in penalties and spend $33 million on pollution control technology to settle a Clean Air Act complaint involving six of its cement...
View ArticleNo Jail for Threatening a Judge
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (CN) - The former chairman of the St. Clair County Republican Party pleaded guilty to threatening a judge.
View ArticlePhotographer's Estate Sues Bloomingdale's
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) - The heirs of "world-renowned photographer" James J. Marshall claim menswear designer John Varvatos and Bloomingdales are reproducing and displaying Marshall's photos of...
View ArticleBorder Patrol Must Release More Info
MANHATTAN (CN) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection must release arrest statistics and other details to a nonprofit that's investigating racial profiling in a recently shelved program to patrol...
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