Judge Nixes Super Bowl Seating Fiasco Suit
(CN) - Football fans who were denied entry to the 2011 Super Bowl because a fire marshal nixed a section of temporary seats cannot sue, a federal judge ruled. As hosts of the 2011 Super Bowl...
View ArticleATM Giant Sanctioned for Blind Inaccessibility
(CN) - A federal judge rebuked the world's largest ATM operator for not making its machines accessible for blind customers, five years after it promised to do so. Cardtronics, which owns or...
View ArticlePark Ranger Sure Likes Her Taser
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A federal park ranger Tasered a man running with his little dogs and had him held in jail for eight hours, apparently for a leash law violation, the man claims in court....
View ArticleTeen Murderer Fails to Upend Death Sentence
PHOENIX (CN) - A man convicted in a brutal triple-murder failed to show that the court behind his death sentence failed to consider his history of drug abuse, the 9th Circuit ruled. Robert...
View ArticleState Farm Cuts Loose Disgraced Lawyer
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (CN) - State Farm claims in court that it has no duty to defend disbarred attorney L. Thomas Lakin, or his son, from a civil lawsuit involving sexual abuse of minors. State Farm...
View ArticleAustria Rail Amputation Suit Hits En Banc Court
(CN) - The Austrian national railway should be held to account in a U.S. court for an accident that caused an American woman to have both legs amputated, her attorney told the 9th Circuit....
View ArticleCanadian Indians Fight Pipeline Expansion
VANCOUVER, B.C. (CN) - As debate rages over oil pipelines on both sides of the border, a British Columbia Native band claims a pending decision by the Canadian government will ram through a...
View Article'Deadliest Warrior' Host Has Case Over Gun Photo
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A gun manufacturer that advertised with photographs taken by the host of TV's "Deadliest Warrior" must face copyright infringement claims, a federal judge ruled. Richard...
View ArticleDrug-Sniffing Dogs Need Warrants Outside House
WASHINGTON (CN) - Law-enforcement agencies need probable cause to use a drug-sniffing dog outside of a private home without a warrant, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. After Miami-Dade...
View ArticleThe Worst Tax Preparer in the World?
HOUSTON (CN) - A tax prep company offered a customer $1,200 to not talk to a reporter about what it "had fraudulently taken from her refund," the Texas attorney general claims in court. Texas...
View ArticleSnowball Hurler Can Sue Cop Who Ran Him Down
(CN) - A cop with a history of bad driving may have used excessive force when he ran over the leg of teenager he chased for throwing snowballs at houses, a federal judge ruled. Joseph...
View ArticleScorching Lawsuit Against Surgeon & Medtronic
CINCINNATI (CN) - A spinal surgeon did "criminal ... medically unnecessary, experimental spine surgeries" on 88 patients without informed consent, to sell Infuse Bone Graft for Medtronic, which...
View ArticleU.S. Told to Declassify Certain Gitmo Filings
(CN) - A federal judge ordered the government to release, with some exceptions, unclassified public versions of the materials filed in a former Guantanamo Bay detainee's case. In a March 8...
View ArticleGreens Blame EPA for Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - U.S. environmental regulators illegally approved overuse of pesticides that caused honeybee colony collapse disorder, threatening agriculture throughout North America,...
View ArticleD.C. Can't Nix 3M's Libel Suit Against Lobbyist
(CN) - A federal judge will not reconsider applying the D.C. Anti-SLAPP Act in 3M's defamation suit against a former Clinton lobbyist, a federal judge ruled. The dispute stems from an August...
View ArticleBitter Medicine
MANHATTAN - Dr. Jeanetta Stega claims New York Downtown Hospital and its top officials defamed her by claiming they fired her "because she had 'channeled' money to herself from the sponsor of a...
View ArticleChicago Police
CHICAGO - Chicago police wrongfully shot Ryan Rogers to death on March 20, his wife and children claim in Federal Court.
View ArticleDell Has Court Pare Down Some Patent Claims
MARSHALL, Texas (CN) - A federal judge narrowed down the wireless products Wi-LAN can include in a patent-infringement lawsuit against Dell. Dell is among several companies with wireless...
View ArticleEnvironment
WATERTOWN, N.Y. - Toxic pollution from Alcoa and Reynolds Metals' aluminum plant hurt the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, the tribe and Uncle Sam claim in Federal Court.
View ArticleTexas Laywers Charged With Ambulance Chasing
HOUSTON (CN) - A Texas lawmaker and seven other Houston-area attorneys were charged with paying kickbacks in an ambulance chasing scheme involving hundreds of clients. Acting on arrest...
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