Central Valley Irrigation Fight Dries Up in the 9th
(CN) - Farmers in California's Central Valley do not have an unqualified right to all the irrigation water they want, the 9th Circuit ruled Friday. The San Luis Unit Food Producers and several...
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WASHINGTON - The National Archives and Records Administration should not face a lawsuit over its refusal to give the group Cause of Action records from the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a...
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LOS ANGELES - Renu Plating Co. et al. dumped cyanide and other hazards for decades from a plant near Nevin Avenue Elementary School, California claims in Federal Court.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Shamell Bishop claims Security Engineers employee Pierre Jarvis Myles shot to death her unarmed husband at the Intown Suites Birmingham North as they peacefully had a smoke in...
View ArticleSpanner in the Works
LANSING, Mich. - State Rep. Fred Durhal Jr. claims Michigan Gov. Richard Snyder improperly agreed with Canada to build and operate a new international bridge at Windsor, without a vote of the...
View ArticleLottery Tickets
CLEVELAND - Eric Wathen claims Tiffany Brown swiped two winning lottery tickets worth $50,000 apiece from him while he slept at her apartment and "wrongfully endorsed and attempted to redeem"...
View ArticleTrashed by Big Business, Watts Group Says
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A Watts neighborhood group claims in court that Veolia Transportation used it to gain a foothold in the Los Angeles market, then trashed and abandoned a rental building, leaving...
View Article$62,000 in Legal Fees for Flag Bust
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (CN) - Missouri and a Cape Girardeau police officer must pay $62,000 in legal fees for arresting a man on unconstitutional flag-desecration charges, a federal judge ruled....
View ArticleGuilty Plea in College Basketball Conspiracy
SAN DIEGO (CN) - Brandon Johnson, the University of San Diego's all-time points leader in basketball, was sentenced Friday to 6 months in prison for conspiring to fix games, federal prosecutors...
View ArticleSex Abuse Scandal to Cost Ambulance Owner Triple
(CN) - A woman who was sexually abused by the ambulance paramedic taking her to the hospital is entitled to a $2.1 million judgment, an Oregon appeals court ruled. Royshekka Herring woke one...
View ArticleDisney Accused of Hollywood Accounting
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Disney unfairly "exploited" the "Home Improvement" TV series by swapping its syndication rights for commercial time in New York City, and stonewalled calls for accounting, the...
View ArticleVirginia Panhandlers Can Challenge City Ban
RICHMOND, Va. (CN) - A ban on begging the popular Virginia district of Charlottesville could violate the First Amendment rights of panhandlers, the 4th Circuit ruled. Five Charlottesville...
View ArticleLampoon Claims Ex-CEO Lifted $1 Million
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A former CEO embezzled $1 million from National Lampoon and sent it to his criminal defense attorney's law firm, the Lampoon claims in court. National Lampoon sued former...
View ArticleGamblers Defying Search Will Head to Washington
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to identify the appropriate venue for professional gamblers to sue a federal agent who seized their money at an airport. Drug Enforcement...
View ArticleBan on Day Laborers in Arizona Crumbles in 9th
(CN) - Arizona's day-laborer ban goes too far, having little to do with traffic safety and much to do with limiting the rights of undocumented job seekers, the 9th Circuit ruled Monday. The...
View ArticleFamilies Sue Family for School Killings
PAINESVILLE, Ohio (CN) - Three students were shot to death a year ago at an Ohio high school because the killer's parents, guardians and uncle failed to keep the gun away from him, the dead...
View ArticleHigh Court Revives Suit Over Naval Surgery
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. government does not have sovereign immunity from claims that its medical personnel injured a veteran in a botched cataract operation, the Supreme Court ruled Monday....
View ArticleFirst DePuy Implant Case Goes to Jury
LOS ANGELES (CN) - DePuy orthopedics knew its metal-on-metal hip replacement could hurt patients but kept it on the market because it was more concerned about profits than safety, attorneys...
View ArticleKoch Exec Must Amend Aspen Kidnapping Suit
(CN) - A federal judge said it would not be futile for a former Oxbow executive to amend claims that his billionaire boss William Koch imprisoned him on a sprawling Colorado ranch. This month...
View ArticleTransocean Turns on BP WithScorching Oil-Spill Document
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - BP prolonged the Gulf of Mexico oil spill by two months by concealing the rate of oil flowing from the broken Macondo well, Transocean claims in a document filed in the damages...
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