Program Aims to Stop Military Sexual Assaults
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Department of Defense issued a rule that aims to create "a culture free of sexual assault" in the military by improving prevention, education and the support of assault...
View ArticleFINRA Employee Files Whistleblower Suit
MANHATTAN (CN) - A financial examiner claims in court that FINRA fired him for detecting a loophole that helps large broker-dealers duck SEC rules and undercapitalize themselves. Joseph Sciddurlo...
View ArticleFin Poaching Leads to Protection Proposal
WASHINGTON (CN) - The National Marine Fisheries Service has proposed Endangered Species Act listing for two distinct population segments (DPSs) of scalloped hammerhead sharks as endangered, and...
View ArticleClass Calls Ohio Medicaid Money Grab Illegal
CLEVELAND (CN) - Ohio illegally seizes money from tort awards to people who received Medicaid benefits, two people claim in a state class action. Lead plaintiffs Michael A. Pivonka and Lisa...
View ArticlePatient Referral Gambit Could Close In on Tenet
(CN) - Tenet Healthcare cannot dismiss claims that it violated anti-kickback laws by leasing office space at below-market rates to referring physicians, a federal judge ruled. Real estate...
View ArticleFatal Payback for Organizing, Mother Says
GULFPORT, Miss. (CN) - A worker trying to unionize an unsafe workplace was dragged into a conveyor and killed when the plant intentionally left him unattended inside and failed to lock the...
View ArticleElectrolux Fails to Melt Defective Fridge Claims
CAMDEN, N.J. (CN) - A federal judge refused to dismiss most claims that the appliance giant Electrolux knowingly sold refrigerators with faulty ice makers. In a consolidated class action, New...
View ArticleRacism Alleged at Fox Sports
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Fox Sports has never employed a black person as vice president or higher in its 19-year existence, a former employee says in a discrimination complaint. Jerry Davis claims...
View ArticleHotel Strike Marches On to 10-Year Anniversary
CHICAGO (CN) - The First Amendment protects a union's hardball tactics in its nearly 10-year struggle with downtown Chicago hotel, a federal judge ruled. Unite Here Local 1, which represents...
View ArticleLong Sentence Ordered in Savage D.C. Murder
WASHINGTON (CN) - One of the culprits behind the elaborate kidnapping and murder of an 18-year-old woman was sentenced Tuesday to 32 years in prison. Brian Gaither, 25, of Washington, D.C.,...
View ArticleReceiver in Ponzi Case Can Chase Wells Fargo
(CN) - Wells Fargo must face claims that its predecessor helped the late Arthur Nadel pull off his $162 million Ponzi scheme, a federal judge ruled. Nicknamed the "mini Madoff," Nadel was...
View ArticleTasered Man Who Caught Fire Can Pursue Claims
(CN) - A Pennsylvania trooper cannot dismiss claims filed by a man who caught fire after being Tasered for driving an unlicensed scooter, a federal judge ruled. In the early morning hours of...
View ArticleBrokers Lose Fight to Trade Outside Own Firms
(CN) - Top brokerage firms should not face a challenge to their policies prohibiting financial advisers from opening outside trading accounts, the 9th Circuit ruled Tuesday. Douglas McDaniel,...
View ArticleNurse Wins Immunity on Check of Girl's Privates
CINCINNATI (CN) - A school nurse's genital examination of a 6-year-old student's genitals did not violate the child's Fourth Amendment rights, the 6th Circuit ruled. In October 2009, B.H., as...
View ArticleGay Bullying Opponents Denied an Injunction
(CN) - Florida school officials may be liable for blocking a protest of gay bullying but an injunction is unnecessary to protect the same event scheduled for next week, a federal judge ruled....
View ArticleShaky Ground in Tech Labor Antitrust Case
(CN) - Tech workers must amend allegations that the late Steve Jobs and other leading Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to fix and suppress wages via "gentleman's agreements." In a consolidated...
View ArticleDisbarment Order of California DA Marks First of Its Kind for State
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A California prosecutor with a checkered disciplinary record should be disbarred for their latest infraction, which he also lied about, a judge ruled. The lengthy...
View ArticleMotorcyclist Amputee Loses Suit Over Crash
CHICAGO (CN) - A woman who lost both legs in a motorcycle crash cannot overturn a jury's verdict that she caused the accident, not the other driver, the 7th Circuit ruled. While riding on I-70...
View ArticleDOJ Wants More for Prisons Than U.S. Security
WASHINGTON (CN) - President Obama's proposed 2014 budget for the Department of Justice will spend $4.1 billion more on prisons than on "national security," the Justice Department revealed...
View ArticlePublishing
MANHATTAN - Vincent Oleniak claims Pamela Slaton, Samantha Marshall and St. Martins Press defamed him as a Mafia member and in other ways in the book, "Reunited: An Investigative Genealogist...
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