Alleged Prison Rape Victim Sues Sheriff
ST. LOUIS (CN) - A former prisoner sued Pike County, Mo. and its sheriff, claiming he was raped at the county jail. Christian Gettimier sued Pike County, Sheriff Stephen Korte, and the alleged...
View ArticleGreat Baseball Parking Lot Fiasco Continues
DALLAS (CN) - In a continuing legal saga over a Texas Rangers parking lot, a Dallas law firm claims part of its contingent fee from a lawsuit against the former team owner is going unfairly to...
View ArticleTexas Real Estate Cheats Going to Prison
DALLAS (CN) - Two Texas real estate developers got multiyear prison terms for running off with $33 million from $39 million in construction loans. Anirudh Sarwal, 39, was sentenced to 57 months in...
View Article'Get Off of My Cloud, and Bull'
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) - Counterfeit squeezy bull and cloud "stress relievers" are being sold out there, a company claims in a copyright complaint against a rival. Alpi International sued Prime...
View ArticleTexas Loosening Concealed Gun Law
AUSTIN (CN) - A Texas Senate committee unanimously approved a bill that will make it easier to get a concealed-handgun license. The Senate Criminal Justice Committee voted 7-0 to send Senate...
View ArticlePatent
STATESVILLE, N.C. - Joao Control & Monitoring Systems claims Lowe's violates three patents on home security systems, in Federal Court.
View ArticleFight Over $3 Billion Health Care Contract
PHOENIX (CN) - A competitor used a vendor's confidential information to win a $3 billion health-care contract with Maricopa County, the vendor claims in court. Magellan Health Services sued...
View ArticleBlacklisted in Jersey
NEWARK - New Jersey and its attorney general demoted and "blacklisted" state troopers from promotion without cause, the State Troopers Fraternal Association says in a federal class action.
View ArticleAttorney Sues Good Ol' Law Firm
DALLAS (CN) - A Dallas attorney sued her law firm, claiming it enforced an illegal policy prohibiting male and female employees from being "alone together" - in or out of the workplace....
View ArticleStop Corridor K
WASHINGTON - The Sierra Club sued the Federal Highway Administration for records on Corridor K, "an expensive and unnecessary highway project" through National Forest that would "degrade the...
View ArticleWhy Do Some People Become Teachers?
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - An elementary teacher held a 5-year-old, 60-lb. student on the ground with her knee and "gouged his face," and pinched another special ed student's nipples and called him a...
View ArticleBosses of the Day
HACKENSACK, N.J. - Bosses at Beviamo Corp., an Italian restaurant in Oakland, N.J., habitually insulted a Latino U.S. citizen with comments such as, "Get used to it, Taco Boy, because illegal(s)...
View ArticleTrayvon Martin's Parents Settle With HOA
SANFORD, Fla. (CN) - The homeowners association where Trayvon Martin was shot to death by a Neighborhood Watch captain settled a wrongful death claim with the teenager's parents for more than $1...
View ArticleCop's 'Thin Skin' Doesn't Negate Libel Injury
(CN) - An accused drunken driver cannot upend defamation findings by arguing that the police officer he maligned online "should have thicker skin," an appeals court ruled. Eric Bruss, a police...
View ArticleGeorgia Mum on Four Recent Prison Murders
ATLANTA (CN) - A Georgia prison demands $250,000 to respond to Open Records requests on Hays State Prison, where four inmates have been murdered in the past four months, a dead inmate's mother...
View ArticleJohnson & Johnson Sinks Stent Patent Verdict
(CN) - The Federal Circuit reversed a $593 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson to a radiologist who claimed infringement of his patents for drug-eluting stents. A federal judge in...
View Article$24 Million Award in Hepatitis C Case
LAS VEGAS (CN) - Nevada's largest health management organization owes $24 million to three plaintiffs for negligence in a hepatitis C outbreak in 2008, a state court jury ruled. Robert Eglet,...
View ArticleNewly Hired Firefighters Lose Pension Perk Fight
ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) - A change to New York pensions froze out new firefighters whose union contracts were still in negotiation, the state's highest court ruled. As New York grappled with the...
View ArticleClass Sues Exxon for Tar Sands Oil Spill
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (CN) - ExxonMobil faces a federal class action for the March 29 rupture of a pipeline carrying tar sands oil that was "the worst oil spill in Arkansas history." Load plaintiffs...
View ArticleRancher Who Lost 354 Cows to Feds Can Sue
PHOENIX (CN) - An Arizona cattle rancher can sue the U.S. Forest Service for seizing and selling nearly 400 of his herd, the Court of Federal Claims ruled. Though Daniel Gabino Martinez's land...
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