Global Flavor Company Must Share Sales Info
(CN) - A multibillion dollar fragrance company must provide its competitor with marketing information for its patent-pending product Tru2Nature, a federal judge ruled. Since the 19th century,...
View ArticleNCAA Says Pennsylvania Wants to FilchIts $60 Million Child Abuse Endowment
HARRISBURG, Pa. (CN) - Pennsylvania on Wednesday passed a law intended to steal $60 million from a Penn State University fund to help victims of child sex abuse and dump it into the state...
View ArticlePrivilege Shields 'Central Park Five' Film Outtakes
MANHATTAN (CN) - Documentary outtakes cannot help New York City fend off a $20 million civil suit by five men falsely imprisoned for the rape of a Central Park jogger, a federal judge ruled....
View ArticleFirst Class Action Filed forThe Carnival Cruise to Hell
MIAMI (CN) - For five days, "urine and feces leaked onto floors, walls, and ceilings" of the Carnival Triumph, more than 3,000 passengers had to "sleep on deck ... relieve themselves into buckets,...
View ArticleJudge's Goof Bars Retrial of Suspected Arsonist
WASHINGTON (CN) - Double jeopardy bars Michigan from retrying a man on arson after an improper acquittal the first time around, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. Lamar Evans was charged with...
View ArticleDrone Killings
BROOKLYN - The National Security Council blew off a request for records on NSC meetings dealing with killing people by drone strikes, Main Street Legal Services says in a federal FOIA complaint.
View ArticleInsurance Class Action
SANTA FE, N.M. - 21st Century Advantage Insurance, AIG, et al. bamboozled customers by charging them extra for stacked coverage though they could not benefit from it, a class action claims in...
View ArticleForged Pollock
MANHATTAN - The Knoedler Gallery and its president Ann Freedman sold a collector a forged Jackson Pollock painting, "Untitled 1949," for $3.1 million in 2000, the collector claims in Federal Court.
View ArticleChurch Abuse
PALM BEACH - Christ Fellowship Church allowed its employee or volunteer youth mentor Braiden K. Smith to sexually molest a 14-year-old girl despite being put on notice, her parents claim in Palm...
View ArticleProfit-Seeking College
NEWARK - Education Training Corp. dba Florida Career College and Anthem Education Group dba Anthem Institute fired a director of education for objecting to violations of student aid and...
View ArticleFeds Bust Up SoCal Meth Ring
SAN DIEGO (CN) - Twelve people were arrested and charged with conspiring to bring methamphetamine into San Diego County for Mexican drug cartels, federal prosecutors said. A thirteenth...
View ArticleLawsuit Dismissed After Triple Murder
WATERLOO, Ill. (CN) - An Illinois judge dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit against Joyce Meyer Ministries, stemming from a triple murder by Meyer's bodyguard. Christopher Coleman murdered his...
View ArticleCourt Gave Improper Weight to Tossed Juror
(CN) - A woman who was convicted of murder only after the trial judge dismissed a contrary juror does not qualify for habeas relief, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. Tara Sheneva Williams had...
View ArticleTeacher Says TV Knew Porn Charge Was False
CLEVELAND (CN) - WOIO TV in Cleveland defamed a high school teacher by reporting he had child pornography on his school computer, despite a warning from his attorney that the claim was false, the...
View ArticleMexican Facing Removal Can't Nix Guilty Plea
(CN) - The U.S. Supreme Court sided against a Mexican national who took a lawyer's advice to plead guilty, unaware that it would jeopardize her immigration status. Roselva Chaidez pleaded...
View ArticleEx-Assemblyman Going to the Slammer
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A former three-term California assemblyman will plead guilty to three charges of bank fraud: taking $193,661 by falsely claiming to have been a victim of identity theft, federal...
View ArticlePatent Law Malpractice, an Issue for State Courts
(CN) - Though patent matters qualify for exclusive federal jurisdiction, state-law claims of legal malpractice against patent attorneys do not, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. The case stems...
View ArticleJig Is Up for 73-Year-Old Trader
MANHATTAN (CN) - Federal prosecutors and the SEC claim James Tagliaferri ran a Ponzi scheme through his Caribbean company, TAG Virgin Islands. Tagliaferri, 73, formerly called his company the...
View ArticleState Lets Nursing Homes Slide, Group Says
(CN) - California's Department of Public Health endangers the elderly and disabled by ignoring state mandates for monitoring nursing homes, an advocacy group claims in court. California...
View ArticleInmate's Pension Safe From Son of Sam Law
ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) - Crime victims cannot use the Son of Sam Law to stake a claim on the state pensions of public employees who wronged them, New York's highest court ruled. The New York Court...
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