Turtle Lovers Fight to Save Loggerheads
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Thirty-four years after listing the loggerhead sea turtle as threatened, the federal government is breaking the law by refusing to establish critical habitat for the species,...
View ArticleNew EU Democracy Group Installs Leader & Budget
(CN) - The European Endowment for Democracy appointed a Polish politician to serve as its first executive director Wednesday, and it adopted a $16.8 million budget. Jerzy Pomianowski, the new...
View ArticleOld-Timer Says He Was Poisoned With Pot
SOMERVILLE. N.J. (CN) - Two country club members "assaulted" and "poison(ed)" a 68-year-old diabetic by feeding him a brownie laced with marijuana, the man claims in court. Barry Russo, who...
View ArticleFanciful Footwear Won't Help Nike Competitor
WASHINGTON (CN) - A shoemaker cannot try to invalidate a Nike trademark with a phantom shoe not subject to a noninfringement agreement, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Already LLC dba...
View ArticleFeds Must Rethink Newly Opened Stanislaus Trails
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) - The U.S. Forest Service improperly opened 2,000 miles of Sierra Nevada trails to vehicles legal both on and off public highways, a federal judge ruled. Stanislaus...
View ArticleWhale Lovers Fight One Another in Court
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A man who chartered a ship to protest Japanese whaling sued the host of the Animal Planet series "Whale Wars" for $5 million, claiming the TV host tried to sink the ship to get...
View ArticleKidnapping Past May Not Lead to Deportation
(CN) - Kidnapping is not necessarily a crime of moral turpitude, the 9th Circuit ruled Wednesday, offering relief to a man who would otherwise be deported to Mexico. Javier Castrijon-Garcia,...
View ArticleLaw School Admission Council Sues California
(CN) - The Law School Admission Council sued California, claiming the state keeps law schools from getting "truthful, accurate and non-misleading information about test scores," by refusing to...
View ArticleActivists Ask 9th to Favor Owl Over Logging Project
PASADENA, Calif. (CN) - A logging project in Shasta-Trinity National Forest could harm the habitat of the northern spotted owl, environmentalists told the 9th Circuit. Conservation Congress...
View Article'Dastardly' Plot Cited for Controlof Presidential Yacht Sequoia
MANHATTAN (CN) - A U.S. corporation owned by Indian business magnates hatched a "dastardly plan to wrest control" of a yacht that served every president from Herbert Hoover to Jimmy Carter, the...
View ArticleJudge Slams NYPD for Biased Trespass Stops
MANHATTAN (CN) - The New York City Police Department has systematically crossed the line in patrolling private buildings in the Bronx, a federal judge ruled. "For those of us who do not fear...
View ArticleTax & Regulate Marijuana, Hawaiians Say
HONOLULU (CN) - Most Hawaiians approve of medical marijuana and want marijuana taxed and regulated, saving the state millions of dollars in enforcement and court costs, according to a recent poll....
View ArticleShouldn't Have Run From the Coast Guard
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (CN) - A Mexican national who rammed his boat into a Coast Guard vessel after it caught him fishing in U.S. waters pleaded guilty to "failing to heave to a Coast Guard vessel,"...
View ArticleHardly a Nice Place to Work
CHICAGO (CN) - A former employee sued a child-care business, claiming it fired him for insisting that it repair dangerous playground equipment and that when he asked to be paid for overtime his...
View ArticleWomen Call McDonald's Manager a Predator
CHICAGO (CN) - A McDonald's manager sexually assaulted women and wouldn't let them take bathroom breaks unless they gave him sex in the back office, four woman claim in court. The women claim...
View ArticleMom Says Coach Abused her Daughter
CHARLESTON, S.C. (CN) - A public high school teaching assistant sexually abused a girl on the school's Special Olympics team, the girl's mother claims in court. The mother, Essence Gregg, sued...
View ArticleSecurities
MANHATTAN - The SEC accused Volt Information Services and its former CFO Debra L. Hobbs of a $7.6 million accounting fraud; and another former Volt CFO, Jack J. Egan, in similar, but separate...
View ArticleThat Intern Didn't Work Out ...
BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (CN) - An Albany-area attorney asked a court to order her former law school intern to take down defamatory online reviews of her work and not to post any new ones. Attorney...
View ArticlePen Patents
WASHINGTON - Digital pens manufactured by Epos Technologies do not infringe on six patents held by Pegasus Technologies, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleDad Sues County for Shooting of Children
MIAMI (CN) - Dade County should have prevented a July 2011 shooting at a youth football practice in a county park that left four children wounded, one child's father claims in court. Gunmen...
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