Microsoft Flat-out Lied, Inventor Says
MANHATTAN (CN) - Microsoft misled an inventor for 12 years to keep him from suing over a fraudulent contract for DVR technology, the man claims in court. Invellivision and Paul Hoffman sued...
View ArticleJudge's Plea Advice Will Go Before High Court
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Supreme Court will evaluate the propriety of some frank advice that a trial judge gave to a man who wanted to fight tax fraud charges. In 2010, Anthony Davila told...
View ArticleFeds Must Shine Light on Indian Point Decision
MANHATTAN (CN) - Federal regulators must explain why they secretly exempted the Indian Point nuclear reactor from fire-safety rules, the 2nd Circuit ruled Monday. The decision partly reverses...
View ArticleUC Retirees Stripped of Benefits Get a Leg Up
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - An appeals court revived claims against the University of California for canceling the medical benefits of four workers who retired after decades of service. The case has...
View ArticleFlight From Arrest Spells Harsher Drug Sentencing
CHICAGO (CN) - A Nigerian heroin dealer who fled abroad and evaded police for five years should serve more time for obstruction of justice, the 7th Circuit ruled. James Nduribe, a Nigerian...
View ArticleHow to Ruin a Wedding Night
STOCKTON, Calif. (CN) - Newlyweds sued a hotel, claiming it gave their honeymoon suite to the wrong couple, who made off with nearly everything in the wedding basket, and saw the bride's panties...
View ArticleCherokee Baby Adoption Picked Up by High Court
WASHINGTON (CN) - Adoptive parents will get another shot to fight for custody of the baby girl whom they had to turn over to her biological father in the Cherokee nation. The adoptive parents,...
View ArticleViolent DEA Showed Offfor the Media, Landlord Says
SAN DIEGO (CN) - DEA agents invited the media to watch them blow up a Hells Angels clubhouse, though they knew they could have opened it with a key, the landlord claims in court. Maurice Peter...
View ArticleArms Dealer Can't Fight Felon-in-Possession Ban
(CN) - A repeated offender of gun laws who characterizes himself as a nonviolent felon cannot challenge the federal felon-in-possession ban, the 4th Circuit ruled. Gregory Pruess once operated...
View ArticleRecord Asbestos Filings in Madison County
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (CN) - Madison County saw a record 1,563 asbestos-related lawsuits in 2012, an increase of 610 from the year before. Madison County is a favorite target for the American...
View ArticleFeds Pay $520,000 for Fatal Shooting
ST. LOUIS (CN) - The federal government will pay $520,000 to the family of a man a park ranger shot to death near the Gateway Arch in 2008. Randolph Scott Jr. was 23. His family claimed that...
View ArticleRecovering Assets
ST. LOUIS - National Asset Recovery Services stiffs its phone workers for overtime and regular wages, a class action claims in Federal Court.
View ArticleBamboozled Out of Apple Stock, Man Says
AUSTIN (CN) - Investment companies bamboozled a man for $1 million worth of Apple stock by claiming he could "loan" it his 2,000 shares, then refusing to give them back, the man claims in court....
View ArticleMixed Martial Arts
NEWARK - Bellator Sport Worldwide, a promoter, claims mixed martial arts fighter Eddie Alvarez breached contract, in Federal Court.
View ArticleHyatt Complains of Hotel Coup in Curacao
CONROE, Texas (CN) - A competitor seized a Hyatt-managed hotel in Curacao with an "overnight stealth takeover," Hyatt claims in court. Hyatt Corp. and Hyatt Curacao sued Benchmark Hospitality...
View ArticleSmall-Town NorCal Treasurer Charged
YREKA, Calif. (CN) - The former treasurer of Tulelake, Calif. was arraigned Jan. 2 in Siskiyou County Superior Court on charges of appropriating public money, false records regarding public money,...
View ArticleManning's Key Defense Arguments in Limbo
FT. MEADE, Md. (CN) - Military prosecutors started Pfc. Bradley Manning's first pre-trial hearing of the year with motions to disarm the alleged WikiLeaks source of two of his main trial defenses....
View ArticleProving Gang Retreat Is a Defense, Not Fed, Burden
WASHINGTON (CN) - The government did not have the burden of proving a gang member's continued participation in a criminal conspiracy, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. Calvin Smith is...
View ArticleGeorgia Governor Sued Over Indicted Sheriff
ATLANTA (CN) - Gov. Nathan Deal committed a gross abuse of discretion by refusing to appoint a panel to review the election of a Georgia sheriff who faces a 37-count corruption indictment, a...
View ArticleSuit Over Landfill Killing Will Get Another Shot
(CN) - A North Carolina appeals court revived the claims of a grieving mother whose son died after a being driven into a trash pile while working at a landfill. Travis Bryan Kidd was working...
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