Fired Worker Says He Blew Whistle on Reuters
MANHATTAN (CN) - Thomson Reuters gives selected subscribers a 2-second edge on "potentially market-moving information" and fired a worker who told the FBI about it, the man claims in court....
View ArticleHamas Victims to Get More After Legal Change
(CN) - Iran must pay $40 million to the family of a 14-year-old girl killed in a triple-suicide bombing carried out by Hamas in downtown Jerusalem, a federal judge ruled. On Sept. 4, 1997,...
View ArticleLawyer's Bribery Crime Reversed After Suicide
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (CN) - A federal judge vacated the conviction of an attorney who killed himself after he was found guilty of bribing a judge for favorable rulings and appointments. Ray...
View ArticleCommitted Sex Predator Has Case Over Cancer
(CN) - A prison medical provider must face claims that it waited over a year to diagnose a sexually violent predator with level 2 melanoma, a federal judge ruled. Michael Hasher has been...
View ArticleMargaret Thatcher, 87
Margaret Thatcher, who shook up England during 11 1/2 years as prime minister, has died of a stroke at 87.
View ArticlePickens Family Feuding Over Tell-All Blog
DALLAS (CN) - The son of energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens has moved to dismiss privacy claims over a tell-all blog that attributes his drug addiction to abuse his father allegedly heaped upon him...
View ArticleHoliday Delay Supports Suit Over Slain Baby
(CN) - A mother whose abusive ex-boyfriend threw their infant daughter over a bridge into the icy Raritan River can sue police officers who refused to intercede because of the President's Day...
View ArticleCutbacks May Stall Trial for Bin Laden In-Law
MANHATTAN (CN) - A federal judge presiding over the charges against Osama bin Laden's son-in-law called it "stunning" that the trial may be delayed by budget cuts. Defense attorney Martin...
View ArticleCNN, CBS Settle Suit Over Mass Grave Report
DALLAS (CN) - A couple has dropped defamation claims over incorrect CNN and CBS news reports that 25 to 30 dismembered bodies had been found in a mass grave at their home. In a June 2012...
View ArticleTry This on Your Prostate, ClassTells Supplement Maker & QB
SACRAMENTO (CN) - With bogus endorsements from quarterback Joe Theismann, a supplement maker sold millions of bottles of a phony prostate drug invented by a felon, a class action claims in Federal...
View ArticleSubpoenas Enforced in SeaWorld Drowning Case
ORLANDO (CN) - Federal safety officials can enforce subpoenas against SeaWorld Orlando over the 2010 drowning of a whale trainer, a federal judge ruled. Dawn Brancheau died during a Feb. 24,...
View ArticlePublisher Claims Cop Assaulted Him
HONOLULU (CN) - A publisher claims in court that Maui police assaulted him and seized his phone as he tried to film (nonparty) Duane "Dog The Bounty Hunter" Chapman signing autographs in a parking...
View ArticleCough Up the $3M,Judge Tells Korean Firm
(CN) - DuPont won a $920 million judgment against Kolon Industries, and a federal judge ordered Kolon to hand over $3.5 million from an account in New Jersey. Korea-based Kolon makes...
View ArticleJudge Nixes Immunity for State Trooper
(CN) - A Massachusetts state trooper who arrested the father of a boy who allegedly made an obscene gesture at a fellow trooper cannot claim qualified immunity, a federal judge ruled. This...
View ArticleBlind Sue H&R Block
BOSTON - HRB Tax Group (H&R Block) discriminates against the blind in its online tax preparation, the National Federation of the Blind claims in a federal class action.
View ArticleClass Challenges Court Fees in Houston
HOUSTON (CN) - Harris County takes millions of dollars in illegal court fees from criminal defendants in "what amounts to little more than armed extortion," two men claim in a federal class...
View ArticleQuake-Prone Airport
SAIPAN, Marianas Islands - Boeing failed to design and build an earthquake- and typhoon-resistant West Addition to Saipan International Airport, the Commonwealth Ports Authority claims in Federal...
View ArticleIt's a Great Idea, So Why Prosecute Me?
JOHNSTOWN, N.Y. (CN) - New York environmental officials wrongly prosecuted a recycler for trying to find new uses for old tires, the company claims in court. BCD Tire Chip Manufacturing has a...
View ArticleBankruptcies
WILMINGTON, Del. - CEDC Finance and affiliates filed for bankruptcy, listing $500 million to $1 billion in assets and liabilities. A-1 Medical Equipment also filed, listing $100 million to $500...
View ArticleImprisoned Drug Snitch Wants His Reward
(CN) - A prison inmate claims the United States owes him a $1.75 million reward for helping it capture and extradite a Colombian drug lord. Jose Miguel Aguirre-Pinzon sued the Departments of...
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