Appeal Restores Georgia-Pacific's Jury Verdict
(CN) - A federal judge improperly nixed the $790,000 jury verdict in a long-running trademark infringement suit over "touchless" paper towel dispensers, the 4th Circuit ruled. In a 2005...
View ArticleLeave the Pot at Home if Driving Through Kansas
(CN) - Marijuana possession charges hold in Kansas, even against those caught passing through after buying the herb legally in another state, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled. Troy Cooper...
View ArticleCollege Student Says His Steamy Essay Got Him Thrown Out
DETROIT (CN) - His creative writing professor gave him an A for his story, "The Boobs I Wasn't Meant to See," but the college kicked him out of her class for writing a "Hot for Teacher" entry in...
View ArticleRobot Arm Patent Fight Drives NASA Disclosure
(CN) - NASA must produce several proprietary documents related to its development of a robotic arm that is the subject of a patent dispute, the Court of Federal Claims ruled. Ross-Hime...
View ArticleNo, You Suck It Up, Fired Worker Says
CLAYTON, Mo. (CN) - White co-workers urinated on a black employee's equipment and the boss told him to (metaphorically) "suck it up," the man claims in court. Demetrius Taylor sued St. Louis...
View ArticleRock & Roll Cannon Whangs Kiss Fan
CLAYTON, Mo. (CN) - Flying debris from a cannon at a Kiss concert injured a brain cancer patient, the man claims in court. William Mueller Jr. sued Live Nation and others, in St. Louis County...
View ArticleUSA Must Look Again at California Water
FRESNO, Calif. (CN) - The federal government must do more environmental review before it can approve renewal of water contracts in California's Central Valley, a federal judge ruled. The enormous...
View ArticleLabor
WASHINGTON - Watkins Security Agency and its D.C. affiliate cannot dismiss a class action alleging that they failed to compensate school security guards who worked through lunch breaks, a federal...
View ArticleEx-NFL Man Sues Ex-NBA Guy for $150K
DALLAS (CN) - Former NFL player Nathaniel Jones claims former Dallas Mavericks star Rolando Blackman cost him $150,000 in an African gold venture gone bad. Jones sued Blackman and David K....
View ArticleFor-Profit Colleges
WASHINGTON - A federal judge refused to consider reinstating reporting requirements and other measures aimed at protecting the debt-ridden graduates of private universities.
View ArticleBoss of the Week
CLAYTON, Mo. (CN) - A construction boss offered a worker a house and a car to lie under oath in a criminal case accusing him of secretly videotaping women in the company bathroom, a woman claims...
View ArticleNo You Didn't, USA Tells Former Pol
MANHATTAN (CN) - Craig L. Berkman, a former candidate for governor of Oregon, falsely claimed to have access to pre-IPO shares in Facebook and other tech companies, the United States says in a...
View ArticleNo Refunds in Failed Insurance Fundraiser
DALLAS (CN) - Energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens and boosters for Oklahoma State University cannot recoup $33 million in life insurance premiums paid under a failed fundraising scheme, the 5th Circuit...
View ArticleFree After 27 Years, Man Sues L.A. County
LOS ANGELES (CN) - An innocent man spent 27 years in prison for murder because the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department failed to disclose evidence that would have established his innocence, he...
View ArticleDeKalb School Board Spat Heads to State Justices
ATLANTA (CN) - The same federal judge who refused to stop the governor of Georgia from replacing school board members wants the state Supreme Court to intervene. Earlier this month U.S....
View ArticleBurned TV Fan Sues Dr. Oz
MANHATTAN (CN) - Dr. Mehmet Oz's homespun insomnia remedy left a New Jersey man with third-degree burns on both feet, the man claims in a lawsuit against the TV doctor. Frank Dietl sued Dr....
View ArticleAT&T Hacker Facing Prison Gets EFF Help
(CN) - One of the hackers who publicized an AT&T server security flaw will fight his 3.5-year prison sentence with digital rights defender, the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In 2010,...
View ArticleMarketer Doesn't Have LivingSocial Libel Case
(CN) - LivingSocial should not face libel claims from a former marketer it accused of sharing secrets with the competing deal website, Travelzoo.com, a federal judge ruled. In 2010,...
View ArticleHalliburton Whistle-Blower Gets 2nd Chance
(CN) - Halliburton and KBR must face claims that they falsely billed the U.S. for services at military bases in Iraq while the U.S. was at war, the 4th Circuit ruled. During his time with KBR,...
View ArticleScalia Assails Agency Deference in Water Fight
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Supreme Court sided against environmentalists in a fight over water pollution Wednesday, sparking an impassioned call from Justice Antonin Scalia to rethink the doctrine of...
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