'Thanks for the Fancy Driving, Officer'
McALLEN, Texas (CN) - A speeding Harlingen policeman rammed a suspect's car into a "quietly sleeping" woman's bedroom, throwing her 7 feet out of the bed and seriously injuring her, she claims in...
View ArticleMortgage-Back Securities Case Loses Most Steam
(CN) - In the first ruling of its kind from the mortgage-baked securities fallout, a federal judge sidelined claims that expired before a bank went into receivership. As receiver for Security...
View ArticleRaped Girl Sues Town That Hired Cop
BOLIVIA, N.C. (CN) - A small-town North Carolina cop raped a 13-year-old girl while on duty, and the town hired him without any psychological screening after he had raped an 11-year-old, the...
View ArticleDrug Rehab Center Can't Get Post-Trial Injunction
TAMPA, Fla. (CN) - A rehabilitation center that won discrimination damages from a Florida county cannot get an injunction, a federal judge ruled, finding it "unlikely that the county will again...
View ArticleDog-Killer Cops Face Kafkaesque Lawsuit
CHICAGO (CN) - Cops in suburban Chicago left a woman's backyard gate open, killed her dog when it ran out the open gate, then cited her for having a dog at large, the woman claims in court....
View ArticleFeds Cleared on Sergeant Who Slayed His Family
(CN) - An Air Force sergeant who murdered his former lover and their infant son did not leave the United States open to negligence claims, a federal judge ruled. Ralph Daniel Wright Jr., a...
View ArticleAnother NY Lawmaker Faces Corruption Charges
(CN) - In the second corruption case this week, New York Assemblyman Eric A. Stevenson was arrested Thursday and charged with accepting bribes for helping developers open and manage adult day care...
View ArticleAbusive Astor Heir Cannot Avert Prison Time
MANHATTAN (CN) - An appeals court refused to disturb the prison sentence awaiting 88-year-old Anthony Marshall, whom a jury convicted of plundering the $185 million fortune of his mother, famed...
View ArticleSony's Bike Messenger Film Flees Copyright Suit
(CN) - A novelist failed to support copyright claims against the 2012 film "Premium Rush," starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, a federal judge ruled. "The Ultimate Rush," which Joe Quirk published...
View ArticleBudget Chair Sends Message to Court Officials on Transparency and Spending...
SACRAMENTO (CN) - An Assembly subcommittee working on California's next budget recommended spending $418 million from California's general fund to help the beleaguered trial court system. The vote...
View ArticleNear Deportation Shows Need to Act, ACLU Says
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) - Immigration officials announced that they will stop trying to deport a mother who faced deportation after her dogs allegedly got her arrested for barking too much....
View ArticleArizona Immigration Law MadeInto Farce in 9th Circuit Hearing
(CN) - Once 9th Circuit Judge Carlos Bea focused on what he called the "very strange language" found in an Arizona immigration law, the state's lawyer had no chance to come up for air. Arizona...
View ArticleForeclosed Upon Military Families See Some Green
(CN) - Members of the U.S. military whose homes were illegally foreclosed upon will receive $39 million from settlements reached with two mortgage lenders in 2011, the Justice Department said...
View ArticleMedical Assault
ATLANTIC CITY - AtlantiCare employee Steven J. Hurst sexually assaulted a patient at its Galloway, N.J. hospital, the man claims in Atlantic County Court.
View ArticleNCAA Final Four
ATLANTA - Atlanta imposed illegal, restrictive rules, with jail time, for vendors who have permits to sell sports merchandise during the NCAA Final Four weekend, two vendors claim in Fulton County...
View ArticleSuing Fox News
MILWAUKEE - A firefighter who was disabled with an elbow injury claims Fox News defamed him in a broadcast titled "Firefighter Collects Disability After Banging Funny Bone but is Healthy Enough to...
View ArticleTech Case Transfer
MIAMI - Wi-Lan's patent-infringement claims against Apple should play out in San Diego, where third-party chipmaker Qualcomm is based, a federal judge in Florida ruled, noting that Wi-Lan's "only...
View ArticleCrooked Real Estate Broker Gets Three Years
ST. LOUIS (CN) - A real estate broker was sentenced Thursday to three years in federal prison for a multimillion-dollar real estate scam. Jerrick Hawkins, 28, also was ordered to pay $2.4...
View ArticleBosses of the Year
ATLANTA - After a worker rebuffed sexual advances from the CEO and three vice presidents and dated a black co-worker, a VP told her, "It's in the Bible that God does not like the mixing of the races,"...
View ArticleSecurities Trader Takes Criminal Plea Deal
MANHATTAN (CN) - Former Goldman Sachs vice president Matthew Taylor pleaded guilty to a criminal charge that he concealed an $8.3 billion trading position to protect the $1.6 million bonus he...
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