Shareholder Class Action
WILMINGTON, Del. - MIPS Technologies is selling rights to 580 patents for $350 million and selling what's left of itself to Imagination Tech for $60 million, in unfair cash and stock deals,...
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SACRAMENTO - Sacramento County failed to make the new, $1 billion Terminal B at Sacramento International Airport accessible to people with "mobility disabilities," a class action claims in Federal...
View ArticleDodd-Frank Swap Rules to Take Effect in 2013
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission adopted final rules regulating certain types of swaps to be cleared through certified organizations under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street...
View ArticleJudge Sinks Navy Sailor's Honorable Discharge Suit
(CN) - A sailor who slapped his lieutenant so he could get out of the Navy in 1977 cannot bring a federal lawsuit to redefine his discharge as honorable, a federal judge ruled. Before Henry...
View ArticleNRA Responds to Massacre
(CN) - In response to the massacre of schoolchildren in Connecticut, the NRA today called for armed guards in every K-12 public school. At an estimated $80,000 a year per armed guard, the NRA...
View ArticleLinguist in State Secrets Jam Gets House Arrest
WASHINGTON (CN) - A federal judge ordered home arrest for an American linguist accused of stealing national security secrets while working at a U.S. Navy base in Bahrain. James Hitselberger,...
View ArticleStop-and-Frisk Database Must Stay Sealed
MANHATTAN (CN) - The New York City Police Department cannot keep tabs on more than 360,000 people entered into a stop-and-frisk database for subsequent investigation, a state appeals court ruled....
View ArticleShareholders VeriFone Claims Revived in 9th
(CN) - VeriFone must face stockholders' claims that company leaders deliberately overstated earnings in the wake of a merger, the 9th Circuit ruled Friday. The share price for the San...
View ArticleEU Slams Samsung for Trying to Get Apple Ban
(CN) - Stepping up its criticism of Samsung on Friday, the European Commission informed the Korean gadget maker that its efforts to ban Apple products may violate antitrust laws. Regulators...
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WILMINGTON, Del. - Epoch Holding Corp. is selling itself too cheaply to Toronto-Dominion Bank, for $668 million or $28 a share, shareholders claim in Chancery Court.
View ArticleBogus Lawyer
FORT WORTH - The Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee of Texas asked the Tarrant County Court to order Gary Owens dba Christian American Constitutional Civil Legal Rights Union to knock it off.
View ArticleEPA Issues Rules for Nine Chemicals
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Environmental Protection Agency issued new rules for use of substances that could hurt people and animals. The EPA issued the rules under the Toxic Substances Control....
View ArticleOcean Sanctuaries May Be Expanded
(CN) - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration may expand the boundaries of two national sanctuaries off the California Coast. The Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank Marine...
View ArticleSEC Bars Arizonan From Securities Industry
WASHINGTON (CN) - The SEC on Friday barred Arizona-based Barry Ziskin from the securities industry and censured his company Top Fund Management. Ziskin, 60, and his company, both based in Mesa,...
View ArticleHospital Assault
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A patient claims New York Presbyterian Hospital employee Carl Stokes sexually assaulted her, in Westchester County Court.
View ArticleSEC Busts Four Penny Stock Traders
MANHATTAN (CN) - Four penny stock traders made $17 million illegally by dumping more than 1 billion shares of microcap companies' stock on the market, the SEC claims in court. The SEC sued...
View ArticleTech Patent
TYLER, Texas - Select Notifications Media claims Earthlink violates a patent on error redirection, in Federal Court.
View ArticleShe Thought He Was Her Friend
CHICAGO (CN) - A felon with 16 civil judgments against him for hundreds of thousands of dollars bilked his friend and neighbor for $50,000, she claims in court. Juli Bark sued David A. Staral, in...
View ArticleDrug Patent
NEWARK, N.J. - Lunesta maker Sunovian Pharmaceuticals cannot get another chance to pursue infringement claims against Doctor Reddy, or Dr. Reddy, Laboratories, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleFired for Fighting Bias, HR Chief Says
HOUSTON (CN) - A staffing agency fired its HR director for objecting to its use of code words to fill discriminatory orders, including "blue eyes" to exclude blacks and "work all day" for Hispanics,...
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