Malawi Captive Suit Will Get Another Shot at Suit
(CN) - A purported "rebel" American can amend claims alleging that the Malawi government killed his wife and tortured him for eight years, a federal judge ruled. Laston Kafutwa said the Malawi...
View ArticleState Investigator Files ScorcherAgainst Arizona A.G. Tom Horne
PHOENIX (CN) - Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne defamed and tried to ruin the career of a state criminal investigator who told the FBI in good faith that she believed Horne may have received...
View ArticleStanford Ponzi Case Will Go to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (CN) - Investors allegedly defrauded by R. Allen Stanford's $7 billion Ponzi scheme must persuade the U.S. Supreme Court that they can use state class actions to attempt recovery....
View Article$12 Million Award Against Illinois Prison
CHICAGO (CN) - A federal jury awarded $12 million to an inmate at an Illinois prison after finding that officials knowingly withheld his seizure medication. Ray Fox, 50, was serving time at...
View ArticleJustices to Take Another Swing at Weapons Law
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Supreme Court will again consider chemical-weapons charges against a microbiologist who tried to poison her husband's lover. After her husband impregnated her former...
View ArticleGreens Fight Feds Over SW Utah Drilling
SALT LAKE CITY (CN) - The Secretary of the Interior illegally approved tens of thousands of acres of "wilderness-caliber" lands in southwest Utah for natural gas drilling, four environmental...
View ArticleBurger King Worker to Collect on Skirt Firing
DALLAS (CN) - A Burger King franchisee will pay $25,000 to settle claims over a Pentecostal woman who allegedly lost her job after insisting that she had to wear a skirt. The U.S. Equal...
View ArticleRepublicans Can Replace Disgraced Candidate
DOVER, Del. (CN) - The Delaware Republican Party can replace a state Senate candidate who was charged with sexually abusing a minor, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled. The state Supreme Court...
View ArticleCop's Murder Defense Picked Up by High Court
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Supreme Court will decide whether Michigan properly barred a former police officer from claiming diminished capacity in a murder case. Burt Lancaster was a former Detroit...
View ArticleEnvironmental Challenges to L.A. Rail Line
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A shopping center in L.A.'s Little Tokyo neighborhood sued federal and city officials to try to stop construction of a 1.9-mile underground rail line in downtown Los Angeles....
View ArticleWisconsin Union Law Survives 7th Circuit
CHICAGO (CN) - The 7th Circuit upheld a controversial law that limits the power of public-sector unions in Wisconsin, sparking widespread protest and recall elections. Gov. Scott Walker...
View ArticleWoman Says 'Glee' Two-Timer Beat Her
LOS ANGELES - (CN) - Mark Salling, a star of the "Glee" TV show, forced a girlfriend to have unprotected sex and assaulted her when she came to his house wanting to know if he was clean, the woman...
View ArticleJudge Appoints Class Counsel in Shop-Vac MDL
(CN) - Three New York law firms will represent consumers who claim that Shop-Vac misrepresents the horsepower of its vacuums, a federal judge ruled. Shop-Vac wet-dry vacuums allegedly contain...
View ArticleLawyer Suspended for Billing Mistress-Client
(CN) - An attorney who had sex with a client and then billed her for his services cannot practice law indefinitely, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled. Thomas Lowe unconditionally admitted the...
View ArticleReligious Beliefs Won't Topple Student Trackers
SAN ANTONIO (CN) - A federal judge refused to halt controversial pilot program that lets a school district track magnet school students with chip-embedded identification badges. Steve...
View ArticleJoan Rivers Film Ducks Fan's Privacy Objection
CHICAGO (CN) - A woman who lamented a heckler backstage with Joan Rivers cannot challenge her surprise appearance in a documentary, the 7th Circuit ruled. In "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,"...
View ArticleSheriff's Domestic Abuse Scandal Deepens
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A San Francisco sheriff and his wife defamed their neighbors and lied to officers investigating domestic violence reports, a couple claims in court. Ivory Madison had...
View ArticleJudge Stalls Changes to Prompt-Payment Law
ATLANTA (CN) - Georgia cannot yet require timely claims payments by insurers that provide third-party administrative services to self-funded health plans, a federal judge ruled. Self-funded...
View ArticleOhioans Slam Housing as Racist by Design
CINCINNATI (CN) - Racism is state policy in Ohio, whose county recorders repeatedly publish restrictive covenants barring black - and sometimes Mongolian - people from buying property in specified...
View ArticleSergeant's Murder Trial May Leave Feds Liable
(CN) - The United States cannot dismiss claims stemming from the murder of a woman and her baby at the hands of an Air Force sergeant, a federal judge ruled. In July 2007, Ralph Daniel Wright...
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