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TAMPA - The FTC wants these defendants to disgorge ill-gotten gains and stop abusively telemarketing so-called credit services: Innovative Wealth Builders, Carly Janene Pelland aka Carla Zurita,...
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - A federal judge dismissed the consolidated class action complaint alleging that telecommunications giant Finisar and its officers mislead investors.
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PITTSBURGH - Sightsound Technologies cannot pursue amended infringement claims against Apple, a federal judge ruled, rejecting objections to the e-discovery special master's report and...
View ArticleCookie Giant Fights for Its Packaging
CHICAGO (CN) - In a battle of cookie giants, Kraft claims in court that Kellogg and its Keebler subsidiary violate patent on "Snack 'n Seal" technology in packaging for at least five kinds of...
View ArticleMom Sues Schools After Taped Attack
HOUSTON (CN) - After a public school student attacked a disabled 5-year-old girl so viciously it dislodged her brain shunt, a bus aide lied that she had fallen out of her wheelchair, her mother...
View ArticleFDA Plans to Reclassify Safety of Dental Implant
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Food and Drug Administration plans to reclassify a blade-form surgically-implanted dental device, citing the benefits of such devices relative to their risks. The...
View ArticleProselytization Was Harassment, Worker Says
MILWAUKEE (CN) - A risk-management group fired a security guard who resisted his managers' Pentecostal proselytization, which included Bible verses with his paychecks, the man claims in court....
View ArticleCloud Computing May Increase Internet Access
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services has proposed that "inclusive Cloud and Web computing" be a priority for the federal Disability and...
View ArticleCaterpillar Accused of Overkill
CHICAGO (CN) - Caterpillar, annoyed that an employee had applied for workers compensation, sicced a private eye on him and fired him on a bogus claim that he did office work while on disability...
View ArticleNo Immunity in Probe of Inciting Racial Hatred
(CN) - Immunity does not shield an EU parliamentarian from liability over anti-Semitic comments he made as president of a radical political party, Europe's General Court ruled Thursday. Bruno...
View ArticleBaccarat Player Says Trump Casino Took Gains
ATLANTIC CITY (CN) - A Trump casino took back $280,000 that a player won at baccarat, and threatened to have him arrested, despite a police report that concluded he had not cheated, the man claims...
View ArticleSouthern Utah Energy Plan Isn't Review Ready
(CN) - Environmentalists cannot challenge suspended oil-and-gas leases near national parks in southern Utah, the 10th Circuit ruled, saying the plans are not ripe. Hoping to extract oil from...
View ArticleMarijuana Prescriber Sues Medical Board
ALBUQUERQUE (CN) - New Mexico stripped a physician assistant of his medical license for prescribing medical marijuana, which is legal in the state, the longtime medical worker claims in Federal...
View Article$1 M Policy Limit Applies in Fatal Porch Collapse
(CN) - An insurer does not have to pay out more than $1 million to the families of people killed or injured in a three-story porch collapse, an Illinois appeals court ruled. The 2003 tragedy,...
View ArticleFired Worker Doubts That God Did It
NEWARK (CN) - A furniture store manager who "spoke in tongues," and doubted that a worker was a "true Christian" fired her after learning she was a lesbian, and said God had told her to do it, the...
View ArticleFCC Encoding Rules Sent Back to Drawing Board
(CN) - The D.C. Circuit reversed a telecommunication rule that imposes encoding restrictions on all cable and satellite providers, making them vulnerable to unauthorized broadcasts. In 2002,...
View Article'More Pissed Off Than Happy,' Ex-NFLer Says
HOUSTON (CN) - Undercover cops got Southern University's former athletic director fired by soliciting him for prostitution and arresting him without probable cause, the former NFL player claims in...
View ArticleMassachusetts Abortion Clinic Buffer Upheld
(CN) - Anti-abortion protesters cannot challenge a Massachusetts law that created a 35-foot buffer zone around clinic entrances, the 1st Circuit ruled. After losing their facial challenge to...
View ArticleDemocrat Wins in a Nail-Biter - Apparently
ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) - After New York's highest court refused to hear a second appeal and 99 disputed ballots were counted, a Democratic state Senate candidate today eked out a 19-vote upset victory...
View ArticleKoch Lashes Back at Kidnapping Charges
(CN) - Industrialist William Koch claims that his former employee filed sensational kidnapping allegations against him to divert attention from the man's own alleged fraud. John Hueston of...
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