Mother Blames Cops for Murder & Dismemberment of Her Daughter
DETROIT (CN) - A mother sued police in a Detroit suburb for the murder and dismemberment of her transgender teenage daughter, claiming they revealed her identity to the drug dealers she helped set...
View ArticleJudge Snared in Bribery Scheme Loses Appeal
CINCINNATI (CN) - The 6th Circuit refused to disturb the five-year sentence facing an Ohio judge who accepted bribes from a former Cuyahoga County auditor. Steven Terry, a former Cuyahoga...
View ArticleCorporate Liability
TAMPA, Fla. - Raymond James Financial cannot nix claims that a portfolio manager for its European subsidiary deceived a client and deprived him of millions of dollars, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleThe EPA Tweaks HumanResearch Regulations
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized amendments to its rules concerning the protection of human subjects participating in third-party studies involving intentional...
View ArticleCops Follow Juice Box Trail to Dali Art Thief
MANHATTAN (CN) - Prosecutors say they have caught the gallery-goer who snatched a Salvador Dali piece one afternoon and walked out with it in a shopping bag. In full view of security cameras...
View ArticleTexas Rules Favored for Concrete-Crushing Plant
HOUSTON (CN) - Houston cannot block construction of a concrete-crushing plant approved by state regulators, the Texas Supreme Court ruled. Hoping to move its concrete-crushing plant to a new...
View ArticleState Dumps Budget Woes on the Disabled
CHICAGO (CN) - Illinois budget cuts will kick mentally and physically disabled adults out of state homes without assurance they can find care elsewhere, their guardians say in a class action....
View ArticleWyoming Coal Challenge Headed Home From D.C.
(CN) - A legal challenge to the sale of coal leases in a national grassland should be heard where the land lies, in Wyoming, a federal judge ruled. The dispute stems from a 2011 federal...
View ArticleCalifornia Can't Even Count, Ex-Inmate Says
LOS ANGELES (CN) - California exacerbates its prison overcrowding by keeping prisoners locked up for weeks, months and even years beyond their release dates, a class action claims in Superior Court....
View ArticleWhistle-Blower's Censure Supports Prison Suit
MANHATTAN (CN) - A tax fraudster can advance claims that he was punished in prison for telling his lawyer that a guard had sexually harassed him, a federal judge ruled. Alvaro Garcia spent 30...
View ArticleCollege Lets Students Cheat, Prof Says
LAS VEGAS (CN) - To "maximize revenue" by ensuring that students don't flunk out, profit-seeking Carrington College posts test questions online so students can memorize them, and it fired a...
View ArticleSome Privacy Upheld in Cellphone Tracking Cases
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Department of Justice need not disclose cellphone tracking records involving suspects who were acquitted or had their case dismissed, a federal judge ruled. In a 2008...
View ArticleFired Teacher Needed Mellow Yellow
AUSTIN (CN) - A public school teacher was hospitalized and fired because his school district refused to accommodate his bipolar disorder by painting his classroom yellow, for its "calming...
View ArticleJudge Rips Red Tape in West Bank Attack Case
(CN) - A federal judge offered some relief to the grieving mother of a slain infant who says that an airline and Iranian banks sponsored the attack by Islamist militants. Batsheva Shoham...
View ArticleWorkers Allege Fraud in Defense Parts
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - "U.S. soldiers have been injured" because Alliance Laser knowingly sold defective parts for military assault vehicles, and it fired two workers for reporting it, the men claim...
View ArticleTrooper Blamed in False Report Can Sue Cops
(CN) - Police officers must face claims that they defamed a state trooper who spent his off-duty hours as a nightclub disc jockey, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled. The Massachusetts...
View ArticleCalifornia's Chief Justice Worries About'Dismemberment of the Judicial Branch'
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Saying, "We're looking at the dismemberment of the judicial branch," California's Chief Justice called for more funding for the courts in a Wednesday talk at the Public Policy...
View ArticleInmate Wins a Chance to Restore Parental Rights
(CN) - An inmate improperly lost parental rights after his court-appointed attorney withdrew and he was not given replacement counsel, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled. Christopher Moore and...
View ArticlePeanut Honchos Indicted on Salmonella Outbreak
(CN) - Leaders of the now-shuttered Peanut Corp. of America face federal charges related to a 2009 salmonella outbreak in the United States traced back to a plant in Blakely, Ga. The Blakely...
View ArticleMike Tyson Sues Live Nation for $5 Million
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Mike Tyson claims in court that his manager at Live Nation Entertainment embezzled more than $300,000 from him and cost him more than $5 million all told. Tyson, his wife...
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