Iran Awarded Interest on 1977 Defense Contract
(CN) - A defense contractor that owes Iran $2.8 million on a decades-old equipment deal must compound the award with fees and interest, a federal judge ruled. Cubic Defense Systems had agreed...
View ArticleImprisoned Prosecutor Fears for His Life
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A former federal prosecutor serving time for murdering his wife claims in court that if the state transfers him to San Quentin prison he faces certain death at the hands of...
View ArticleGamefly Brings End to Netflix Postal Favoritism
(CN) - The U.S. Postal Service, which processes Netflix mail by hand, free of charge, must end its bias against other DVD-mailing services like Gamefly, the D.C. Circuit ruled. Whereas Netflix...
View ArticleWidow Blames Aurora Shooter's Psychiatrist
DENVER (CN) - The widow of a man who was shot to death at the Aurora Batman movie massacre sued the suspect's psychiatrist, Lynne Fenton, and her employer, the University of Colorado, claiming...
View ArticleDeveloper Can't Silence His Ex's Tell-All Book
(CN) - A Canadian developer cannot block his ex-girlfriend from making allegedly defamatory statements about him online and in her book, a Florida appeals court ruled. Years after their...
View ArticleFeds Scramble to Keep Megaupload in Court
(CN) - Prosecutors concede that they have failed to serve a criminal summons upon a Megaupload officer but still say a federal judge should uphold its indictment. The copyright case against...
View ArticleCop Faces Charges of Fabricating Drug Bust
MANHATTAN (CN) - Surveillance footage from a Harlem housing project shows that a police officer lied about having witnessed a drug deal, prosecutors said Wednesday. The Manhattan District...
View ArticlePlan to Keep Land From Miners Still Uncertain
(CN) - A federal judge preserved several challenges to the withdrawal of nearly 1 million acres of public land near Grand Canyon National Park from new mining claims. Early last year,...
View ArticleHorrific Complaints AgainstSchoolteacher and School Board
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CN) - An elementary schoolteacher sexually abused students for years, made them watch pornography and bestiality on school computers, and made them drink his semen, which he...
View ArticleNetworks Defend Probe Into Aereo's Google Plan
(CN) - TV networks say Google's marketing data could support their claims that the Internet broadcasting service Aereo sought to infringe on their copyrights. On March 1, 2012, several major...
View ArticleCourt Administrators Still Falling Short, Says State Auditor Howle
(CN) - Reaction to the California Auditor's latest blast of the court bureaucracy's spending practices was swift and strong, falling along past lines of division. The Auditor said on Wednesday...
View ArticleTrial Needed to Sort Out Botched Lady Gaga Deal
(CN) - A Russian television station must go to trial to recover the money it paid to have Lady Gaga perform at a music awards show in Moscow, a federal judge ruled. TV Service Zao, which owns...
View ArticlePlaywright Sues Theaters Over Rewrites
CHICAGO (CN) - A playwright claims in court that the Harold Washington Chicago Cultural Center defrauded her and breached contract by firing her for refusing to approve script changes, but using...
View ArticleMedical Equipment Access Under Review
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) has announced January meeting dates to review transfer surfaces used on medical diagnostic...
View ArticleOccupy Oakland Whacks Back at Police
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Eight Occupy Oakland protesters claim in a federal class action that Oakland and Alameda County falsely arrested them and subjected them to unconstitutional conditions in...
View ArticleAgency Looks at Water Heater Efficiency
WASHINGTON (CN) - Due to new requirements under the American Energy Manufacturing Technical Corrections Act, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) wants public input to help develop energy...
View ArticleUnited Airlines Ducks Taxes, State Agency Says
CHICAGO (CN) - A Chicagoland transit agency claims in court that United Airlines created a sham office in a far west suburb to duck Chicago taxes on jet fuel, and made a deal with the suburb to...
View ArticleFAA Proposes Wireless Ban for Airline Staff
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Federal Aviation Administration plans to prohibit pilots and flight attendants from using wireless devices on planes. The FAA takes this action to conform to a part of...
View ArticlePatient Says Male Nurse Assaulted Her
CHICAGO (CN) - A male nurse at Jackson Parked Hospital assaulted a patient "while she was extremely drowsy and unable to escape," kissing her breasts and penetrating her vagina, she claims in...
View ArticleAgency to Require Sound From Electric Cars
WASHINGTON (CN) - The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) plans to establish a minimum sound requirement for hybrid and electric vehicles. The new rules are being developed...
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