'Come Back With That Porsche!'
WEST PALM BEACH (CN) - A fired worker bought himself a Porsche with a company credit card and sold it two days later, the AMEX Bank of Canada claims in court. AMEX sued Donald Dunbar, Brumos...
View ArticleGroup Home Cleared on 1990s Sex Abuse Case
CHICAGO (CN) - An Illinois man waited too long to sue over sexual abuse he endured at age 7 by fellow residents in a child care facility, the 7th Circuit ruled. In 1991, when Harlis Woods was...
View ArticleExcessive Force
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th Circuit set an April 15 hearing to determine whether a federal judge properly dismissed claims against a Las Vegas police officer who shot a young black man named Ronald...
View ArticleBlack Cop Wins $1.2M for LAPD Harassment
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A jury awarded $1.2 million in damages to a black Los Angeles police officer who claimed that white colleagues racially harassed him with jokes about watermelons and Soul Glow....
View ArticleFired Worker Shows San Antonio Ban Lacks Cause
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CN) - A federal judge said he was unconvinced that a former employee San Antonio banned from its city buildings actually "poses any physical threat." Michael Cuellar was...
View ArticleJudges Set to Pick Funding Formula for Courts
(CN) - A group of judges and court clerks picked to evaluate the funding formula for California's 58 trial courts seemed ready Wednesday to endorse a new model that would give local courts more...
View ArticleShorn Dreadlocks Won't Leave Prison Liable
(CN) - Illinois prison officials did not violate the religious rights of an inmate by making him cut his dreadlocks before a court appearance, the 7th Circuit ruled Thursday. Peter Lewis, 57,...
View ArticleBudget Sequester Hits Fed Courts
LOS ANGELES (CN) - The clerk's office in federal court in Los Angeles, the biggest federal court in the nation, plans to close on a series of Fridays over the next few months as a result of cuts...
View ArticleWal-Mart Disparity Memo Stays Under Wraps
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Wal-Mart did not waive confidentiality over a legal memo that describes stark gender disparities in pay and promotion at the company, a federal judge ruled. The attempt to...
View ArticlePollution
HOUSTON - Arkema, which makes herbicides and insecticides, polluted groundwater and surface water with arsenic and other poisons, the United States claims in Federal Court.
View ArticleMedical Marijuana
PHOENIX - Gov. Jan Brewer, Maricopa County and Mesa police criminally prosecute medical marijuana growers though it's legal in Arizona, a class action claims in Maricopa County Court.
View ArticleWoman Says Abusive Cops Caused Miscarriage
CHICAGO (CN) - Police in suburban Chicago manhandled a woman so badly she miscarried her 5-month-old fetus, she claims in court. Cassandra Edick sued the Villages of Franklin Park and River...
View ArticleInjured Woman Sues Attorney & Office
ST. LOUIS (CN) - An attorney talking on a cell phone ran over a woman and "refused to assist (her) while she lay in the street bloodied, battered and unconscious," the woman claims in court....
View ArticleFly Ash Antitrust
BATON ROUGE - Headwaters Resources price-gouges on fly ash by monopolizing the supply along the I-10 corridor, Big River Industries claims in a federal antitrust complaint.
View ArticleCivil Rights Groups Fight Solitary Confinement
PHOENIX (CN) - Two civil rights groups urged Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to stop plans to build 500 new maximum-security beds for prisoners in solitary confinement. The ACLU of Arizona and the...
View ArticleTech Patent
MARSHALL, Texas - Telecommunications Technologies claims Samsung violates three wireless messaging patents, in Federal Court.
View ArticleLCD Price Fixers Whacked for $571 Million
(CN) - Three manufacturers left standing in the price-fixing suit over liquid-crystal display panels can settle the claims against them for $571 million, a federal judge ruled. Claims over LCD...
View ArticleCourt Revives Part of Medi-Cal Fee Dispute
(CN) - Federally funded health centers are not entitled to recoup the grant money they paid to effectively subsidize California's Medi-Cal program, but they might be able to halt future payments,...
View ArticleNorCal District Attorney on Hot Seat
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - California officials shielded a child molester who contributed to a district attorney's campaign, and arrested a mother when she took the children to be examined in another...
View ArticleSEC to Collect Penalties in Pump-and-Dump Case
(CN) - A consulting firm that inflated a client's stock price by touting a fictitious $25 million defense contract owes the Securities and Exchange Commission more than $1 million, a federal judge...
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