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CHICAGO (CN) - The board of directors of a multimillion-dollar prescription mail order company sold all its assets to one director for $10, and investors got nothing for their shares, stockholders...
View ArticleAir France Pinned for Fiasco of Small Delay
(CN) - Europe's highest court reinforced tough sanctions Tuesday against airlines whose flights arrive over three hours late or otherwise result in missed connections. The Court of Justice had...
View Article'Real Housewives' Star Says She's Being Stalked
MARIETTA, Ga. (CN) - Former "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Sheree Whitfield sought a protective order against an Internet blogger she claims is stalking her. Whitfield filed a "Petition for...
View ArticleBankruptcy Cheat Must Face the Music in Italy
(CN) - Spanish authorities cannot shield a man whom an Italian court convicted in absentia of bankruptcy fraud, the EU's Court of Justice ruled Tuesday. A Spanish court first ordered Stefano...
View ArticleYo, Flo, Where's the Million Dollars?
LAS VEGAS (CN) - A promoter claims in court that rapper Flo Rida's touring company refuses to return the $1 million advance it promised to repay after it was found that his concert attendance...
View ArticleSecret Service Immunity Fight Ends With a Bang
(CN) - Secret Service agents may want to "carry tape measures" out West, 9th Circuit judges warned Tuesday, calling for an en banc rehearing of their immunity claims. The dissent takes issue...
View ArticleRICO Complaint Seeks Return of $2.3 Million
LOS ANGELES (CN) - In a RICO complaint, an Idaho LLC claims it fronted apparent securities recidivists $2.3 million to launch an annuity scheme that never happened. Idaho Falls-based R-LLC...
View ArticleCalifornia Solar Energy Project Gets Fast-Tracked
(CN) - Gov. Jerry Brown fast-tracked approval of a $1 billion, 750-megawatt solar energy project that promises new jobs and clean energy for California. Planned for Riverside County near...
View ArticleIs It Art or Is It Discrimination?
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - An employee sued The Roosevelt Hotel, a Waldorf Astoria hotel and one of the most opulent in New Orleans, claiming its 73-year-old mural of slaves picking cotton and drinking...
View ArticleFeds Must Still Defend Blocked Ore. Wind Farm
WASHINGTON (CN) - A Chinese company blocked from building wind turbines near military airspace in Oregon can pursue a due-process claim, a federal judge ruled. Last year the Delaware-based...
View ArticleSoCal Parents Sue to Stop Yoga Classes
SAN DIEGO (CN) - Parents sued the Encinitas school board, claiming schools in the wealthy coastal enclave are using yoga classes to indoctrinate "captive" students with Buddhism, and...
View ArticleAtheist Group Says Bias Will Cost Country Club
(CN) - A Michigan country club will pay an undisclosed amount to settle claims that it canceled a Richard Dawkins book signing after learning of the author's atheist views. In an April 2012...
View ArticleHonoree Sues Law School for Podium Tumble
DENVER (CN) - The University of Denver perched a distinguished law professor atop a tiny platform at an awards ceremony in her honor, and she fell off and broke her foot as she lectured, she...
View ArticleSEC Curtailed in Going After Long-Ago Fraud
WASHINGTON (CN) - Securities regulators waited too long to go after investment advisers it accused of defrauding clients, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Under the Investment Advisers...
View ArticleClass Actions Across the United StatesClaim Anheuser-Busch Waters Its Beer
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Four federal class actions claim that Anheuser-Busch mislabels its beer by exaggerating its alcohol content. Class actions against the St. Louis- and Belgium-based beer...
View ArticleProof of Merits Rejected for Class Certification
WASHINGTON (CN) - To proceed as a class, investors need not prove that alleged lies about Amgen's anemia drugs inflated stock prices, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. In a federal complaint,...
View ArticleTeen Wins Can Challenge Status as Child Abuser
CINCINNATI (CN) - A 13-year-old registered child abuser has standing to challenge this classification, the 6th Circuit ruled, declining to make the boy wait until he is denied employment in...
View ArticleTargets of the 'Cannibal Cop' Take the Stand
MANHATTAN (CN) - After learning that the so-called cannibal cop wrote disturbing sexual fantasies about her, a woman said she could not believe they came from her old friend Gilberto Valle....
View ArticleSchool Board Members Fight Removal in Georgia
ATLANTA (CN) - Armed with a restraining order, the DeKalb County Board of Education amended claims against a Georgia law that authorizes the suspension of its members. Allegations of financial...
View ArticleManning Tries to Keep Courtroom Door Open
FT. MEADE, Md. (CN) - Just after a military judge blocked Bradley Manning's lawyer from challenging government classifications Wednesday, a prosecutor asked the court to close the public from...
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