FCC Plans 'Flexible' Band Use for Wireless Service
WASHINGTON (CN) - Skyrocketing demand for mobile broadband service has prompted the FCC to propose expanding the Personal Communications Services (PCS) band. The Federal Communication...
View ArticleL.A. Criminal Attorney Gets Seven Years
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A criminal defense attorney was sentenced Thursday to seven years in federal prison for racketeering and money laundering on behalf of gangs. Isaac Guillen, 52, committed...
View ArticleRoyalty Rates for Cable Operators Updated
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Library of Congress' Copyright Office has issued new rules governing the refunds copyright holders may receive from royalty payments made by cable operators. To...
View Article'Man of God' Conned Him, Retiree Says
SAN DIEGO (CN) - A "con man" who preys on Latinos, claiming to be "a man of God," defrauded an elderly man of his life's savings, the retired bus driver claims in court. Jose Carrillo sued Luis...
View ArticleAgency Issues New Rules on Transit Investments
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Federal Transit Administration has finalized rules on criteria used to justify funding transit programs across the country. President Obama signed into law the Moving...
View ArticleAuthor Demands CIA Info on Trujillo Victim
WASHINGTON (CN) - An author sued the CIA for records on the 1956 kidnapping and murder of a Columbia University professor and critic of Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo. Stuart...
View ArticleSupplier on the Hook for Spoiled Progresso Soup
(CN) - General Mills deserves $1.4 million in damages after having to destroy cans of Progresso soup containing meatballs subject to a recall, the 8th Circuit ruled. In early 2008, the Humane...
View ArticleHeartless Scam in Texas, A.G. Says
HOUSTON (CN) - Scam artists defrauded hundreds of old people, getting their Social Security numbers by promising free "stimulus money," then filing phony tax returns in their names, the Texas...
View ArticleCountrywide Stock Case Hinges on Standing Issue
(CN) - The 9th Circuit wants Delaware's highest court to decide whether former Countrywide shareholders still have derivative standing after the Bank of America merger. Five institutional...
View Article'You Little Bitch'
LOUISVILLE (CN) - A school bus driver claims she was fired unfairly after calling a bully a "little bitch" in a Facebook exchange. Debora Robinson sued the Grayson County Board of Education,...
View ArticleBig Pharma Loses Protest to New Price Ceiling
(CN) - Drugmakers must refund the government for higher prescription costs at retail pharmacies compared with prices the Defense Department pays directly, the D.C. Circuit ruled. Since 1992, a...
View ArticleTelemarketers Stole $200 Million, FTC Says
MANHATTAN (CN) - Telemarketers working out of the Empire State Building defrauded elderly and disabled people of $200 million by promising to help them start Internet-based businesses, the FTC...
View ArticleParalysis Claims Against Medtronic Revived in 9th
(CN) - Federal law does not pre-empt failure-to-warn claims over a Medtronic pain pump that paralyzed an Arizona man, the en banc 9th Circuit ruled Thursday. To treat his pain problems,...
View ArticleCalifornia Courts Given Reprieve in Budget
(CN) - California's trial courts got some relief Thursday from Gov. Jerry Brown's 2013-14 budget proposal, in which $200 million to be taken from local reserve funds would be offset by the same...
View ArticleCops to Answer for Gay Man's Obscenity Arrest
(CN) - A gay man who touched the crotch of an undercover policeman's pants and was promptly arrested has a civil rights case against Michigan police, the 6th Circuit ruled. "We have uncovered...
View ArticleNo Fault in Reproducing Iconic Manhunt Photo
BOSTON (CN) - A federal judge tossed copyright claims over the iconic photograph used to track down a self-anointed Rockefeller who kidnapped his daughter and was later immortalized in a...
View ArticleGood News at Last in California Budget
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) - California's fiscal health has improved enough for Gov. Jerry Brown to propose $6.3 billion more in spending next year, with much of it going to schools. Brown's...
View ArticleRite Aid Managers Can Collect on Overtime Suit
(CN) - Rite Aid can pay former assistant store managers $20.9 million to settle a series of class actions concerning overtime, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Jon Jones III said...
View ArticleGrisly Details in 'Batman' Massacre claims
DENVER (CN) - Victims of the movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo. sued the Cinemark movie chain Wednesday, the day before a state judge ruled that James Holmes must stand trial for the shooting...
View ArticleCity May Have 'Ratified' Cop's Shooting of Teen
HOUSTON (CN) - Parents of a mentally-ill teenager shot to death by a police officer can advance a new theory of liability, a federal judge ruled. Under the guidance of her son's psychiatrist,...
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