Wine Advocate Uncorks Lawsuit at Writer
GREENBELT, Md. (CN) - A writer toured wineries around the world, sipping on The Wine Advocate's dime, but didn't turn in his stories and plans to use them on his own soon-to-be-launched website,...
View ArticleKozinski Denies Judge's Intercuit Transfer Offer
(CN) - After punting gas station litigation out of the 10th Circuit, the head of that court cannot still preside over the trials, 9th Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski said. The Judicial Panel...
View ArticleGirl Says Creepy Deputy Took Her Home
NASHVILLE (CN) - Telling her not to wake up her parents, a sheriff's deputy followed a teenager into her bedroom and made her change her clothes while he photographed her, the girl claims in...
View ArticleN.C. Won't Get Disabled Girl's Settlement
WASHINGTON (CN) - States cannot impose liens on the lump-sum personal injury settlements of Medicaid recipients to recoup expenses, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Though federal law...
View ArticleCongress Wrestles With Problems, Costs, of 'City Destroyer' Asteroids
WASHINGTON (CN) - What would the United States do if astronomers identified a "city destroyer" asteroid on a collision course with New York City? "Pray," NASA official Charles Bolden told the...
View ArticleYoung Widow Faces Label as Financial Abuser
(CN) - A woman who was found to have financially exploited her much older husband before his death may be disinherited, the sharply divided Washington Supreme Court ruled. In 1996, three years...
View ArticleGun Advocates Challenge New York Law
BUFFALO, N.Y. (CN) - Gun dealers, owners and sports shooting groups challenged New York State's new gun-control law as unconstitutional, in Federal Court. The New York State Rifle and Pistol...
View ArticleMan Says Brazen Fraud Took His House
SACRAMENTO (CN) - Fraudsters calling themselves Spiritual Alliances and Public Minister charged a Russian speaker $1,500 for "legal help" with his mortgage - then had him sign over his house to...
View ArticleTech Patent
BOSTON - Boston University claims Samsung Electronics violates a patent on "Highly Insulating Monocrystalline Gallium Nitride Thin Films," in Federal Court.
View ArticleACLU Challenges Cops' Cellphone Searches
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - San Francisco police unconstitutionally search arrestees' cellphones without warrants, two people and the ACLU claim in court. Robert Offer-Westort, Elizabeth Zitrin and...
View ArticleSoftware Patent
MARSHALL, Texas - Lodsys claims Sandisk violates patent on PDF-converting software, in Federal Court.
View ArticleCalifornia Auditor Criticizes Court Bureaucracy's Financial Reports
(CN) - California's state auditor concluded in a report released this week that the Administrative Office of the Courts gave the Legislature incomplete and inaccurate financial data. The court's...
View ArticlePiracy Protection
MARSHALL, Texas - Uniloc claims Electronic Arts, McAfee, Sony, Symantec et al, violate patent on anti-piracy software, in 12 federal complaints.
View ArticleEscondido Flyers Draw Ire of Ex-Mayor
SAN DIEGO (CN) - Public funds illegally paid for a campaign mailer supporting measures to turn Escondido, Calif., into a charter city and change its general plan, a former mayor claims in court....
View ArticleShopping While Black
MIAMI - Macy's Florida Stores security guards tackled and searched a 22-year-old man without cause, other than that he is black and was wearing a hoodie, he claims in Federal Court.
View ArticleOffenders Complain of Online Extortion
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Five Arizona men conspired to extort sex offenders by claiming they will take their names and photos off websites for $500, but leaving the information online whether their...
View ArticleSpotted Owls
WASHINGTON - The Carpenters Industrial Council et al. claim the Interior Secretary's protections for the northern spotted owl violate the Oregon and California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road...
View ArticleUncle Sam Seizes Ancient Egyptian Art
BROOKLYN (CN) - The federal government seized five ancient Egyptian artifacts dating back to 2,000 B.C. on their way from Dubai to a Michigan antique dealer. The United States filed the...
View ArticleEmployment
CAMDEN, N.J. - First Student Management stiffed bus drivers for overtime, 145 named plaintiffs say in a federal class action.
View ArticleThe Saddest Story You Ever Heard
AUSTIN (CN) - An ill, elderly Texas woman claims in court that she's being thrown out the home she's lived in for 47 years because of $49 in property taxes -- which she paid early. Aron Ezilla...
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