Tech Patent
WILMINGTON, Del. - Microsoft, Cisco Systems, IBM, HP and others violate a high-speed storage patent, Data Speed Technology claims in 11 federal complaints.
View ArticleAramark Class Action
LOS ANGELES - Aramark Healthcare Support Services stiffs workers for overtime, a class action claims in Federal Court.
View ArticleNegligence
LOS ANGELES - Felice Reyes claims White, Zuckerman, Warsavsky, Luna, Wolf & Hunt, accountants, made multimillion-dollar mistakes in her divorce from mogul David K. Reyes, in a $40 million...
View ArticleMilitary Claims 'Zero Tolerance' for Sex Crimes
WASHINGTON (CN) - Amid growing controversy over military sex crimes, the Department of Defense says it is moving closer to backing up its "zero tolerance" claim, and announces the addition of new...
View ArticleMovie Loan
FORT WORTH - Porter Farrell, Presidio Pictures and Mighty Orphans LLC borrowed $225,000 to make a football movie, "Twelve Mighty Orphans," and didn't pay it back or convey his interest in the...
View ArticleDEA Bans More Synthetic Pot Chemicals
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Drug Enforcement Administration said it will classify three marijuana-like chemicals as federally controlled substances to "avoid an imminent hazard to public safety."...
View ArticleCivil Rights
DALLAS - Dallas illegally barred and threatened to arrest six people if they protest at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University on April 25, the six...
View ArticleHomeless Claim L.A. Blew Off Court Orders
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Los Angeles police violated a court order protecting homeless people in Venice Beach by continuing to seize and destroy their belongings, three homeless people claim in a...
View ArticlePublic Radio
CINCINNATI - Access International Software duped Cincinnati Public Radio for more than $75,000 for malfunctioning fund-raising software, the public radio station claims in Federal Court.
View ArticleRogue Trader Killed Company, SEC Says
HARTFORD (CN) - A brazen registered securities trader drove his employer out of business by blowing millions of dollars on 2.1 million fraudulent and unauthorized buy and sell orders for Apple...
View ArticlePublic Defender
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Riverside County fired a public defender/attorney to retaliate for her complaints of sexual harassment, Christine Voss claims in Superior Court.
View ArticleWhat Does the DHS Have on Reddit Suicide?
WASHINGTON (CN) - A journalist sued the Department of Homeland Security for records on Reddit founder Aaron Swartz, who killed himself after being charged with computer fraud. Kevin Poulsen...
View ArticleLULAC Can't Take Lawyer's Hat Out of Ring
DALLAS (CN) - The League of United Latin American Citizens cannot block a Dallas attorney from running to serve as its national president, a Texas judge ruled. In a March complaint against...
View ArticleThe Law in Mississippi
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (CN) - A skinny 66-year-old partially paralyzed man couldn't get out of his car fast enough during a traffic stop, so a sheriff's deputy pulled him out and slammed his face to...
View ArticleInside Trader Still Owes Us, Georgetown Claims
DALLAS (CN) - Georgetown University says it is still owed $9 million from an alumnus who has accused it of breaking its promise to name a gym after him. In a federal complaint last month,...
View ArticleAttorney Just Made Things Worse, Client Says
SAN DIEGO (CN) - A former San Diego County pension fund officer claims in court that a publi city-hungry attorney defrauded him and cost him his job by persuading him to leak documents about...
View ArticleSub Shop Must Answer for Fast Delivery Offer
(CN) - Advertising "freaky fast," 15-minute delivery time could leave the Jimmy John's sub shops chain liable for a car accident, an Illinois appeals court ruled. Robert Reynolds claimed that...
View ArticleWidow Claims Truck Bunk Smothered Husband
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CN) - A truck driver was smothered to death by the fold-up bunk in his $160,000 Freightliner, his widow claims in court. Georgia R. Bonney sued FYDA Freightliner Columbus and AA...
View ArticlePaying for the Privilege of Making Collections
WASHINGTON (CN) - Citing a legal doctrine "designed to prevent freeloading," the U.S. Supreme Court gave a mixed bag Tuesday to US Airways and the worker whose medical bills it covered. James...
View ArticleNebraska Funeral Protest Law Faces Closer Look
ST. LOUIS (CN) - A federal judge should decide whether Nebraska's newly amended ban on protests within 500 feet of funerals is constitutional, the 8th Circuit ruled. Shirley Phelps-Roper, of...
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