Interns Sue Hamilton College in Class Action
UTICA, N.Y. (CN) - Hamilton College is sitting on a $720 million endowment but won't pay its athletic interns/assistant coaches minimum wages, a former football assistant claims in a federal class...
View Article'Stop Looking at my Penis'
CHICAGO (CN) - The owner of a trucking company exposed himself repeatedly to his finance director, and told her "to stop looking at his penis," she says in a complaint for harassment and...
View ArticleConspiracy in Glendale, Hospital Worker Says
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Glendale City Council members conspired with a hospital to fire a hospital manager who wrote a letter to a newspaper editor criticizing the council for authorizing smoking...
View ArticleSanta Claus in Court
MANHATTAN - Gloria Coots Baldwin, son of the composer, sued EMI Feist Catalog, claiming she will terminate its interest in "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town," in 2016 or 2021, in Federal Court.
View ArticleComics Say Producer Byron Allen Is No Joke
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Comics Unleashed Productions and its founder Byron Allen owe "several hundred" comedians wages and residuals, stand-up comedienne Bernadette Pauley claims in a class action....
View ArticlePrison Library Aide Can Press Drug Frame Claim
(CN) - A federal judge in Florida will allow a former prison library aide to pursue some, but not all, of his claims he was framed by deputies who planted cocaine and marijuana in his car after he...
View ArticleToyota Offers $1 Billion Class Settlement
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Toyota offered to pay more than $1 billion to settle class action claims of sudden acceleration in its vehicles. Toyota set up a website with details of its proposed...
View ArticleShell Gets Green Light for Alaskan Drilling
(CN) - Shell Offshore Inc. can move ahead with plans for exploratory drilling in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off the North Slope of Alaska, the 9th Circuit ruled Wednesday. The federal...
View ArticleSupreme Court Denies BusinessesInjunction on Contraception
(CN) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to issue a temporary injunction sought by private, profit-seeking companies that challenged the new health care law requirement that employers...
View ArticleJudge Rejects Settlement in Tablet Class Action
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A federal judge rejected a proposed class settlement against Asus Computer over its poorly designed Transformer Prime tablets, telling both sides the agreement leaves out too...
View ArticleKansas City Chiefs
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Kansas City Chiefs Football Club fired its director of traffic because he's 53 years old, the man claims in Jackson County Court.
View ArticleInsurance Corruption
BROOKLYN - Sky Medical Supply claims SCS Support Claims Services and a slew of doctors defrauded insurers of millions of dollars, in a federal RICO complaint.
View ArticleEmployment
LOS ANGELES - General Atomics stiffed workers for overtime and minimum wages, a class action claims in Superior Court.
View ArticleWoman Says Masseur Sexually Assaulted Her
MARIETTA, Ga. (CN) - A masseur sexually assaulted a woman during her massage, telling her, "I just think you are so pretty," the woman claims in court. Victoria King sued Brandon D. Knox and...
View Article$11.4 Million for Drug Kickbacks
SAN DIEGO (CN) - San Diego-based Victory Pharma will pay $11.4 million in civil and criminal fines for paying kickbacks to doctors who prescribed its drugs, federal prosecutors said. Victory...
View ArticleHouston School Cheated, Counselor Says
HOUSTON (CN) - The Houston public school system demoted a counselor for truthfully reporting that her high school's administration inflated its graduation rate so it could get an "Acceptable"...
View ArticleSexual Assault in Flight Alleged
RICHMOND, Texas (CN) - A man sexually assaulted a woman as she slept on a commercial airline flight, "tearing (her) pubic hair," she claims in court. Lisa Heal, a married woman with a...
View ArticleFlorida Loses Bid to Move Prison Kosher Meal Case
MIAMI (CN) - A Justice Department complaint that says Florida illegally deprives Jewish prisoners of kosher meals will remain at its current venue, a federal judge ruled. Though the state...
View ArticleIt Was So Unfair, Occupy D.C. Guy Says
WASHINGTON (CN) - A saucy Occupy D.C. protester sued the United States, claiming a policewoman Tasered him after he said: "You want us to clean up the trash in the park, right? Well here's your...
View ArticleCourt Declares Draw in Flap Over Flop 'Sahara'
(CN) - A California appeals panel has effectively declared a draw in the longstanding contract battle between author Clive Cussler and the producers who turned his novel "Sahara" into a box office...
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