Plan for Road Damaged by Old Flood Ducks Suit
(CN) - The U.S. Forest Service did not violate environmental law in its nearly 20-year effort to repair a flood-damaged road near a Nevada wilderness area, the 9th Circuit ruled. South Canyon...
View ArticleFree After 10 Years, Man Sues Baltimore Cops
BALTIMORE (CN) - Exonerated after 10 years in prison for murder, a man sued Baltimore and its Police Department for what he calls "one of the most shameful episodes of police misconduct" in city...
View ArticleVoter Can't Block N.H. Challenge to Oversight
(CN) - Federal judges shot down a challenge to New Hampshire's release from provisions of the Voting Rights Act that correct past discrimination at the polls. New Hampshire has 10 towns...
View ArticlePartner Claims Universal Juggled the Books
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Studio Canal claims in court that Universal Studios owes it "tens of millions of dollars" for work on films that include "Bridget Jones' Diary" and "O Brother Where Art Thou."...
View ArticleDish Network Gets Some Relief in ESPN Scrap
MANHATTAN (CN) - ESPN owes Dish Network $4.8 million - about $150 million less than what was demanded - for offering a competitor better rates, a federal jury ruled. The original case, filed...
View ArticleManager Says Boss Kept a 'Witch File'
BEAUFORT, S.C. (CN) - To keep her job a restaurant manager had to have sex with her boss, who kept a "witch file" on her and fired her when she complained, the woman claims in court. Michelle...
View ArticleSecret Service Must Face Class of Black Agents
WASHINGTON (CN) - Black special agents with the Secret Service can advance race bias claims as a class, with the help of an expert statistician, a federal judge ruled. Eight current and former...
View Article'Your Grandma Sells Crack'
CHICAGO (CN) - Chicago police terrorized six children in the wrong apartment, demanding at gunpoint that an 11-month-old show his hands, and telling one child, "This is what happens when your...
View ArticleRape Accuser Deserves Sanctions, Dallas DJ Says
DALLAS (CN) - A former Clear Channel disc jockey has demanded sanctions against the one-time 'N Sync fan accusing him of raping her when she was 14. Anthony Salvatori aka Tony Moreno aka Tony...
View ArticleThreats to Lady Gaga Concert End in Court
(CN) - Live Nation sued Lloyd's of London for refusing to pay claims from a Lady Gaga concert that was canceled in Indonesia after threats from Islamic extremists. Live Nation LGTours, Mermaid...
View ArticleAlliance Judges Conference EndsWith Call to Action on Governance
PALO ALTO (CN) - A call to action closed the first conference of the Alliance of California Judges with a rousing speech by Judge Steve White on Sunday calling for greater democracy in governing...
View ArticleSmelt Protectors Nab Rehearing in the 9th
(CN) - Claims that renewing dozens of water-supply contracts in California's Central Valley will hurt the delta smelt will face an en banc rehearing, the 9th Circuit said Tuesday. Delta smel,...
View ArticleHow Dare You Be Quiet in Class?
(CN) - A Florida student sued her high school, claiming it tried to bully her into abstaining from an anti-bullying Day of Silence, and suspended her for keeping her mouth shut. Amber Hatcher...
View ArticleNews Staff Loses $2.5M Award and Class Status
(CN) - The 9th Circuit reversed class certification for a group of former Chinese Daily News employees in their decade-old challenge to denied overtime and lunch breaks. A three-judge panel in...
View ArticleSeventy-Eight Football PlayersSay UFL Stiffed Them for a Year
LAS VEGAS (CN) - Seventy-eight pro football players sued the United Football League, its founder and two of its teams, claiming they were never paid for playing in the 2012 season. It's the...
View ArticleBigamist Lawyer Handed Six-Month Suspension
(CN) - A New York appeals court instituted a six-month suspension against a bigamist Manhattan lawyer who married his much younger mistress in Jamaica. When Joseph Isaac Rosenzweig began a...
View ArticlePunishing the Homeless
ORLANDO - Titusville, Fla., illegally seized and destroyed homeless people's property, five men - three of them veterans - claim in Federal Court.
View ArticleDeceptive Trade
HOUSTON - These defendants unjustly profited by sending 30 million deceptive spam text messages, the FTC says in Federal Court: Advert Marketing, Scott A. Dalrymple and Robert Jerrold Wence.
View ArticleAgency to Study Disabilities & Healthy Aging
WASHINGTON (CN) - The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) has proposed a new research effort regarding the promotion of healthy aging for individuals with...
View ArticleAgency to Share Info on Genetically Altered Pests
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) plans to change regulations that have kept information on genetically modified plant pests...
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