Disabled Man Says Six Flags Targeted Him
DALLAS (CN) - A disabled man who lacks fully formed hands claims in court that Six Flags Entertainment illegally barred him from its rides - and changed its rules to specifically target him....
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MILWAUKEE - A Wisconsin judge improperly ordered Credit Acceptance Corp. to pay an extra grand to Tommy Kirk, a man whose car it repossessed and sold for $1,300, a state appeals court ruled.
View ArticleAutism in the Family, My Foot, State Says
SEATTLE (CN) - Autism Awareness United and a marketing group lied about where charitable donations go, claimed paid workers were volunteers, and encouraged them to tell donors they have an...
View ArticlePoll Data Speaks to Value of Nature in the West
(CN) - Residents of six Western states believe that their economic success hinges on the protection of national parks and other natural splendor, a bipartisan survey shows. Of the registered...
View ArticleCablevision Sues Union for Phone Pranks
MINEOLA, N.Y. (CN) - Cablevision sued a union and its local, claiming they criminally conspired to harass the Cablevision CEO by flooding his office phone number with calls, "disrupting...
View ArticleLawyer in Porn Copyright Cases Under Scrutiny
(CN) - The lawyer for a series of pornography copyright infringement cases that are possibly defrauding the court may face sanctions, a federal judge ruled. Brett Gibbs of Prenda Law...
View ArticleWoman Claims Latin Singer Molested Her
CHICAGO (CN) - Merengue singer Elvis Crespo tried to take a woman's clothes off and have sex with her at a Chicago nightclub where he was performing, the woman claims in court. Leoanny De La...
View ArticleU.S. Oil Companies Duck Stolen Mexican Gas Suit
HOUSTON (CN) - Mexico's oil company Pemex cannot exclude alleged purchasers of its stolen natural gas condensate to focus on U.S. distributors, a federal judge ruled. In an April 2012 federal...
View ArticleRich Widow Owes Girl She Took In & Gave Away
(CN) - A girl who was adopted by a wealthy couple and then given away again is entitled to a share of the first adoptive family's $250 million fortune, a New York appeals court ruled. John and...
View ArticleUnions Challenge Michigan 'Right to Work' Law
DETROIT (CN) - The AFL-CIO claims Michigan's new "right to work" law is unconstitutional, and pre-empted by the National Labor Relations Act. The Michigan Legislature rushed through Public...
View ArticleRecords of AIG Securities Fraud Probe Stay Sealed
(CN) - American International Group need not give the press access to confidential records relating to an independent review of its transactions, the D.C. Circuit ruled. After the Securities...
View ArticleNola Cops Held to Task for Fatal Beating
(CN) - Officers who beat a man and then misled doctors as he succumbed to massive internal bleeding deserve prison, the 5th Circuit ruled, calling their actions "beyond the pale." Matthew Dean...
View ArticleInsurer Done Paying for Tainted Surgical Tools
(CN) - The negligence fight over elevator hydraulic fluid mistakenly used to clean surgical tools should not involve the elevator company's insurer, the 4th Circuit ruled. American Elevator...
View ArticleAntitrust Complaint Claims NestleMuscles Out Ice Cream Rivals
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Nestle abuses its market power to squeeze competing ice cream-makers off supermarket shelves - including makers of healthier ice cream, a sugar-free ice cream-maker claims in an...
View ArticleCanceled Beach Party Doesn't Support Lawsuit
(CN) - San Diego activists who had to cancel their beach party because of a summer moratorium on event permits cannot sue the city, a federal judge ruled. FreePB.org, also known as Free Parks...
View ArticleCatholic Church & Rebel Parish Declare Truce
ST. LOUIS (CN) - St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Church has won a long-running battle with the St. Louis Archdiocese for control of its own assets, but will no longer claim to be Roman Catholic. In...
View ArticleDrug Firms Pay $11M for Overbilling Medicaid
AUSTIN (CN) - Upsher-Smith Laboratories and Forest Laboratories will pay Texas $10.9 million to settle claims they inflated the prices of Medicaid drugs. Upsher will pay $7.9 million and...
View ArticleBickering at Studio Leads to Lawsuit
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A former film studio manager claims in court that an executive threatened to kill him for reporting sexual harassment, including an incident on the set of the sitcom "Love That...
View ArticleShareholder Class Action
WILMINGTON, Del. - Directors of Acme Packet are selling the company too cheaply through an unfair process to Oracle, for $2.1 billion or $29.25 per share, shareholders claim in Chancery Court.
View ArticleIllinois Nears Adoption of Same-Sex Marriage
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CN) - The Illinois Senate approved a same-sex marriage bill on Valentine's Day, bringing the state one step away from becoming the 10th state to allow same-sex marriage....
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