Family Accuses Baltimore Police of Complicity in Woman's Murder
BALTIMORE (CN) - The mother of an abused wife whose husband murdered her outside a courthouse claims he was able to commit the crime because his "friends on the Baltimore City Police Department...
View ArticleCosmetics Company Claims CEO Rolled It
MANHATTAN (CN) - Cosmetics company Fusion Brands America claims its former CEO cost it millions of dollars through mismanagement, used corporate money to pay her personal expenses and redirected...
View ArticleA New Twist in Medical Marijuana Fight
MODESTO, Calif. (CN) - An insurer told a couple in California's Central Valley that "all risks" property insurance does not cover losses suffered when marijuana-growing equipment malfunctions and...
View ArticleMissouri Suspends Football Coach
COLUMBIA, Mo. (CN) - University of Missouri head football coach Gary Pinkel was suspended without pay for one game after he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
View ArticleCoyotes Earn a Good, Illegal Living
SAN DIEGO (CN) - Coyotes, or smugglers of humans, are earning a good living these days: $4,000 to $5,000 a head for driving people from the California desert to Orange County, according to a...
View ArticlePeaceful Arrests at Occupy St. Louis
ST. LOUIS (CN) - City police arrested 14 members of Occupy St. Louis on Thursday, during a march from the group's base to the Martin Luther King Bridge. The peaceful arrests came after marchers,...
View ArticleRacial Jokes Weren't So Funny After All
COLUMBIA, S.C. (CN) - A forklift driver who was fired for making racist jokes at work sued his former employer, claiming that his black and white coworkers made such jokes, and so did supervisors.
View ArticleRich Dad, My Foot, Class Claims
MANHATTAN (CN) - A federal class action claims Rich Dad Education and its affiliates use their "free classes" and $199 seminars about financial success as a come-on in a high-pressure "sales scam"...
View ArticleNo Restraining Order for Occupy Oakland Protest
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Occupy Oakland protesters failed to convince a federal judge that they need a temporary restraining order to overcome allegedly ongoing police brutality.
View ArticleJudge Sanctions FBI for Hiding Info From Him
(CN) - The FBI must pay for lying to a court and withholding information about its investigations of Southern California's Muslim community, a federal judge ruled, calling the government's...
View ArticleLegal Aid Group Must Comply With Subpoena
WASHINGTON (CN) - A California legal aid group accused of misusing government grant money must release its financial records, a federal judge ruled, upholding a subpoena.
View ArticleLabCorp Still on the Hook for Wrongful Birth Claim
(CN) - A couple whose child was born with an extremely painful and life-threatening blood condition can pursue wrongful-birth charges against the genetic-testing laboratory that told them the...
View ArticleTrump Hits a Snag in Bid for Foreclosed Property
(CN) - Trump Virginia Acquisitions must face a trial to establish who owns the first right of refusal for a multimillion dollar estate that went into foreclosure, a federal judge ruled last week.
View ArticleWachovia Blamed for Credit Unions' Collapse
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (CN) - Wachovia Capital Markets' disregard for industry underwriting guidelines forced two of the nation's largest federal credit unions into involuntary liquidation, after they...
View Article'John Doe A' Says Sandusky Threatened Him
PHILADELPHIA (CN) - John Doe A claims former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abused him more than 100 times after meeting him through Sandusky's charity. He also says the coach was...
View ArticleClass Says Sony Changed Rules Midstream
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A federal class action claims Sony unfairly changed the terms of use for its PlayStation 3 games, forcing customers to waive their right to sue to keep playing.
View ArticleCop Still on the Hook for Ejecting Men Over Kisses
(CN) - Texas men who were thrown out of a taco restaurant for kissing can sue the city of El Paso for violating their civil rights, a state appeals court ruled.
View ArticleVerizon Suffers Another Video-On-Demand Blow
(CN) - Verizon must change or shut down its video-on-demand service by May 2012, a federal judge ruled, following up on a jury's finding that the telecommunications giant owes $115 million for...
View ArticleEMS Workers Cleared for Body-Bagging a Live Man
(CN) - A North Carolina man who was erroneously declared dead after a car accident cannot collect damages from first responders whose work led him to be placed in a refrigerated drawer, a state...
View ArticleGreece Pursues Venus Defamation Case
BONN, Germany (CN) - A trial will proceed in Athens against a German magazine that put Venus de Milo on its cover with the headline "Cheats in the Euro Family." The doctored image depicts one of...
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