Resort Says Telemarketers Play a Dirty Game
SAN DIEGO (CN) - Indicted telemarketers are bilking timeshare owners with "harassing phone calls" telling them to send their payments to the scammers, the (Lawrence) Welk Resort claims in court....
View ArticleDisabled Woman Can Sue United Over Treatment
(CN) - United Airlines must face claims that its employees yelled at a disabled woman who requested a wheelchair and help at the airport, the 9th Circuit ruled Tuesday. Michelle Gilstrap says...
View ArticleKeith Haring Foundation Wants 'Fakes' Stopped
MIAMI (CN) - The Keith Haring Foundation claims in court that a Florida company is selling "poor quality fakes" of the late artist's work that threaten to flood the market. Click here to check...
View ArticleRevenge Porn King Owes $250K for Defamation
LAS VEGAS (CN) - The founder of a revenge porn website owes $250,000 for falsely accusing a BullyVille.com CEO of pedophilia and owning child pornography, a judge ruled. Hunter Moore founded...
View ArticleFight Over 'None of These' Ballots Heats Up the 9th
(CN) - The full 9th Circuit showed little patience for a challenge to Nevada's unique "none of these" ballot option, pressing opponents about their seemingly shaky standing. Though the option...
View ArticleJustice Assails California Court Budget Cuts
SACRAMENTO (CN) - Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye couldn't have made it any clearer Monday in her speech to the Legislature: "I am afraid California is on the wrong side of history when it comes...
View ArticleEn Banc Rehearing for Rapist's Jail Abuse Suit
(CN) - The 9th Circuit will reconsider the case of a California inmate who claims guards repeatedly ignored his requests for protection after he was beaten and raped. Juan Albino was arrested...
View ArticleCNN Access Doesn't Implicate Speech, Deaf Say
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - The 9th Circuit pressed advocates for the deaf to explain how their demands for captioned videos on CNN's website supersede First Amendment media rights. Hoping to keep a...
View ArticleDesigner Denied Say in Louboutin Mark Change
MANHATTAN (CN) - Christian Louboutin cannot interfere with the U.S. Patent Office's orders to limit the trademark for its signature red-soled pumps, the 2nd Circuit ruled. Since 1992,...
View Article'Cannibal Cop' to Stew in Prison After Jury Convicts on Both Counts
(CN) - The New York City Police Department officer who fantasized about kidnapping, cooking and eating women is guilty of conspiracy, a jury ruled Tuesday. Jurors also convicted the...
View ArticleKid's Access to Gun May Support Assault Charge
(CN) - The boyfriend of a woman whose 9-year-old stole his handgun, took it to school and accidentally shot a classmate must face assault charges, the Washington Court of Appeals ruled. On...
View ArticleLegal English
PORTLAND, Ore. - Leonard Duboff claims The University of Chicago and LawProse's "Legal Writing in Plain English," by Bryan Garner, violates trademark on his "In Plain English" legal textbooks, in...
View ArticleSecurities
SALT LAKE CITY - Edmund E. Wilson, 68, of St. George, Utah and Walter L. Ross, 65, of Cathedral City, Calif., skimmed money from $11 million in unregistered Fountain Group securities they sold...
View ArticleFeds Accuse Teva of Polluting Missouri
ST. LOUIS (CN) - A Teva Pharmaceuticals plant polluted Missouri's air and water with hazardous wastes, the United States claims in Federal Court. Missouri also sued Teva, alleging a slew of...
View ArticleCable TV
OMAHA - Cox Communications discriminates and underfunds a local affairs station for minority communities, Harold Reynolds and Community Telecast claim in Federal Court.
View ArticleAlleged Shooter Sued for Vegas Drive-by
LAS VEGAS (CN) - The son of a taxi driver who was killed in a crash after a drive-by shooting into a Maserati on the Las Vegas Strip has sued the alleged gunman. Michael A. Boldon seeks at...
View ArticleSalmonella Peanuts
NEW HAVEN - Iskream claims Sunland sold it salmonella-contaminated peanuts, which were recalled in October 2012, in Federal Court.
View ArticleItalian Company Owes for Gruesome Injury
(CN) - An Italian company "allegedly in dire financial straits" is liable for the "degloving" of a worker's hand, "in which his skin was torn away and his fingers were partially amputated," a...
View ArticleChesapeake Oil
DALLAS - Twenty-three plaintiffs claim Chesapeake Operating and Exploration cheated them of oil royalties, in Federal Court.
View ArticleNo FEMA Money for Storm Victims
HOUSTON (CN) - Owners of some hurricane-damaged homes in Galveston are not entitled to FEMA buyouts, as they have no constitutionally protected right to the money, a federal judge ruled. After...
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