Emotional Distress Case Fails After Scuba Death
(CN) - A woman who watched her brother drown while they were scuba diving off Catalina Island cannot revive claims against an equipment maker, a California appeals court ruled. Robert Myers...
View ArticleVegas Casino Rigged Game, Security Man Says
LAS VEGAS (CN) - The Riviera Hotel and Casino rigged a game so players can't win the jackpot, and fired its security director for reporting it to the Gaming Control Board, the man claims in court....
View ArticleDeveloper Ducks Protest to Wind Farm Road Plan
FRESNO, Calif. (CN) - A federal judge upheld the grant that will let a wind developer build a service road across federal land to reach a wind farm in Kern County, Calif. North Sky River...
View ArticleAuction House Wants Its $60,000for 'Ten Commandments' Tablets
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A Hollywood auction house claims in court that a bidder owes it $60,000 for the "Ten Commandments tablets written by the finger of God," the famous prop used in Cecil B....
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood Gets Final Texas Funding Boot
AUSTIN (CN) - Planned Parenthood took another hit on Friday when a judge refused to let its affiliates remain in a health care program for low-income Texas women. The ruling from Travis County...
View ArticleTech Patents
SAN DIEGO - Fujifilm, Best Buy, Sears, Target, Wal-Mart and others violate patents on recording, editing and playing back on flash memory in a handheld records, e.Digital Corp. claims in Federal...
View ArticleKnock It Off
LOS ANGELES - The United States wants Stephen Andre Mitchell barred from preparing anyone else's taxes, and information from him, in Federal Court.
View ArticleManagement Fees
TRENTON, N.J. - Axa Equitable Funds Management Group charges excessive and unfair investment management fees, many plaintiffs claim in a federal derivative complaint.
View ArticleSoftware Class Action
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Enigma Software Group keeps charging customers for its purported virus protection software even after they cancel, a class action claims in Federal Court.
View ArticleTied to a Chair
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Yonkers Public Schools teacher Joanne Orr had a boy tied to his chair in her classroom, the boy's mother claims in Westchester County Supreme Court.
View ArticleElectric Prices
AUSTIN - The Public Utility Commission of Texas allowed (nonparty) Entergy to charge customers for "unreasonable and unnecessary expenses," the Office of Public Utility Counsel claims in Travis...
View ArticleEmployment
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Honey Dew Associates blew off a store manager's complaints that its security director repeatedly demanded sex as a condition of employment, the manager claims in Superior Court.
View ArticleCoin Boondoggle
MANHATTAN - The National Collector's Mint and its boss Avram C. Freedberg "prey on" consumers who order "purportedly valuable coins and collectibles" and charge them for stuff they didn't order,...
View ArticleApp War
OAKLAND, Calif. - Apple faces a March settlement conference to resolve claims that the Amazon Appstore violates the its App Store trademark, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleFood Labeling
SAN FRANCISCO - Sioux Honey Association Cooperative should not face a class action over the absence of pollen in Sue Bee Clover Honey, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleAttorney Gets 10 Years for Ponzi Scam
HOUSTON (CN) - A former attorney who ran a decade-long Ponzi scheme was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $7.8 million in restitution. Billy Frank Davis pleaded guilty...
View ArticleInvestors Lash Hecla Mining for Shoddy Safety
BOISE (CN) - Hecla Mining's shoddy safety practices claimed two lives, forced the shutdown of its most productive mine and cost investors millions of dollars, shareholders say in a derivative...
View ArticleShooting Victims Blame Parents & Smoke Shop
PHOENIX (CN) - Parents' and a smoke shop owner's failure to secure their guns allowed a 15-year-old boy to shoot two people to death and wound a third at the suburban smoke shop, the wounded man...
View ArticleIndian Casino Given a Pass on Withheld Rent
(CN) - An Indian casino that lost its operating contract in 2011 may be off the hook for the previous two years' worth of rent, the 8th Circuit ruled. The city of Duluth, Minn., and the Fond...
View ArticleProducers Accuse Disney of 'Brazen Theft'
LOS ANGELES (CN) - In a "brazen theft," Disney and ABC TV swiped two producers' idea for a Christmas movie called "I Hate Christmas," and broadcast the knockoff under a different title, the...
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