Teacher of the Year? Probably Not
CHICAGO (CN) - Faced with a noisy classroom, a suburban schoolteacher duct-taped an 11-year-old boy's mouth shut, wrapping his head with tape that left red welts on his face and a bald spot on the...
View ArticleAgency Proposes New Medicare Ratios
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a rule meant to ensure Medicare providers are spending more money on patient care than administrative expenses. Part...
View ArticleShareholders Sue After Anemia Drug Recall
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Affymax inflated its stock price by failing to disclose that 2 percent of patients who used its now-recalled Omontys drug suffered life-threatening anaphylaxis - and that 1 in...
View ArticleQuilling Selander Proves Ex-Client Has No Case
DALLAS (CN) - Trailed-off discovery led a judge to dismiss legal malpractice against Quilling Selander related to the botched development of a 74-acre commercial property in Fort Worth. In a...
View ArticleGuide Company Blamed for Death on Denali
HONOLULU (CN) - A Swiss climber died on Mt. McKinley after a mountaineering guide company left him to die on a paid expedition to Denali National Park, his widow and children claim in court....
View ArticleJudge Denies $500M Medicaid Fraud Claim
(CN) - A federal judge shot down an "opportunistic" whistle-blower who used publicly available information to accuse drugmakers of misrepresenting Medicaid eligibility. Constance Conrad had...
View ArticleGrad Students Let Concordia-Chicago Have it
CHICAGO (CN) - Concordia University Chicago charged graduate students more than $20,000 a head for accredited degrees, then failed to tell them it was not renewing its accreditation, 11 students...
View ArticleCops May Be Liable for Felling Occupy Berkeley
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) - Police must face excessive-force claims related to an Occupy protest they dispersed at the University of California, Berkeley, a federal judge ruled. The protesters...
View ArticleShot to Death by a New Orleans Cop
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - New Orleans police officers shot a man to death during a traffic stop and shot his brother in the leg and stomped on his head, the family claims in court. Earl Sipp III and...
View ArticleVitamin Shopped Cleared on Spiked Supplement
CHICAGO (CN) - The Vitamin Shoppe is not liable for selling diet supplements containing DMAA since there is no proof the maker knew that the performance-enhancing substance was dangerous, a...
View ArticleWoman Says Boss Slapped Herin the Face With His Penis
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CN) - A public employee "slapped (a woman's) face with his bare penis and attempted to force her to perform fellatio in the presence of elementary schoolchildren who were able to...
View ArticleRomance Book Overlaps Don't Prove Infringement
HOUSTON (CN) - Similarities between Harlequin's novel, "The Proud Wife," and a romance writer's unfinished work fall short of a copyright violation, a federal judge ruled. Kelly Rucker had...
View ArticleParalyzed Cornell Gymnast Loses Retrial Bid
(CN) - The "vitriolic behavior" of a lawyer for Cornell University does not warrant retrial after a jury cleared it on the paralysis of a student gymnast, a federal judge ruled. While...
View ArticleChaplains Lose Bid to Block Navy's Secret Votes
(CN) - A federal judge in Washington, D.C., refused to bar the U.S. Navy from using a secret voting system to promote chaplains that allegedly discriminated against nonliturgical Protestants....
View ArticleArrest Justified Despite Bogus Concern of Threat
(CN) - A tall young man who was Tasered, kicked, handcuffed and arrested after police mistakenly thought he posed a threat to his diminutive mother lost his appeal of a juvenile delinquency...
View ArticleEvidence Strains in Trial of 'Cannibal Cop'
MANHATTAN (CN) - Neither rope, chloroform chemicals nor duct tape - all of which Gilberto Valle listed as necessities in his alleged plots to kidnap and eat women - were found in his Queens...
View ArticlePhilanthropist's Heir Won't Get Art Collection
DALLAS (CN) - The son of late socialite and philanthropist Wendy Russell Reves cannot pursue the Dallas Museum of Art over her $400 million art collection, the 5th Circuit ruled. A three-judge...
View ArticleManning Wants a Crack at Abbottabad Agent
FT. MEADE, Md. (CN) - Pfc. Bradley Manning's attorney asked Friday to interview the person who allegedly found WikiLeaks-related emails written by Osama bin Laden. On Thursday, Manning...
View ArticleSettlement Nixed in Estate of James Brown
(CN) - A settlement of the estate of James Brown failed to honor the late Godfather of Soul's final wishes, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled. Brown, honored as the Hardest Working Man in...
View ArticleJury Goofs Blamed as Judge Tosses $1B Award in Apple-Samsung Fight
SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) - A federal judge halved a $1 billion jury award in the Apple-Samsung patent fight Friday, faulting the jury for not following her instructions. After just 21 hours of...
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