'Mickey' Singer Loses Suit Against Former Counsel
(CN) - One-time pop star Toni Basil is too late to sue her attorneys for malpractice, a New York appeals court ruled.
View ArticleDisneyland Says Disabilities ActDoesn't Require It to Allow Segways
(CN) - As a lawyer for Disneyland defended the park's preference of wheelchairs for the disabled over Segways, the 9th Circuit judges joked about sedan chairs held aloft by porters, as practiced...
View ArticleGoogle in Fray Over Righthaven Copyrights
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Concern over the potential chilling effect on fair use led Google to intervene in the 9th Circuit showdown between an Oregon nonprofit and the beleaguered copyright enforcer,...
View ArticleInmate May Have a Case for Sheared Dreadlocks
CHICAGO (CN) - The 7th Circuit revived the claims of an Illinois inmate who says prison officials forced him to cut his dreadlocks.
View ArticleCops Pay $50,000 for Taser Assault
COLUMBIA, Mo. (CN) - The Columbia Police Department will pay a 24-year-old man $50,000 to settle allegations of excessive force with a Taser.
View ArticleCouple Blames County for Slashed Throats
WEAVERVILLE, Calif. (CN) - A husband and wife claim the Trinity County Sheriff's Office sent them to check on a neighbor whose throat had been slashed, and could only whisper "help" in her 911...
View ArticleConstable & Top Aides Arrested in Houston
HOUSTON (CN) - A veteran Harris County constable and two top assistants were arrested and charged with taking bribes to check the National Crime Information Center database to run background...
View ArticleGov. Walker Recall Is Primed, Petitioners Say
MADISON, Wisc. (CN) - On the eve of today's deadline, petitioners claim to have far more than the 540,208 signatures needed for a recall election against Gov. Scott Walker, whose anti-union...
View ArticlePoker Players Say Website Stole and Cheated
LOS ANGELES (CN) - High-stakes poker players claim that UltimateBet stole $20 million from "crooked" online poker games by exploiting security flaws that allowed others - or the website and its...
View ArticleAudubon Wins a Round on Spotted Owl
PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) - The federal government withheld from the Audubon Society documents about government efforts to conserve the northern spotted owl, a federal judge found.
View ArticleWoman Says College Boss Was a Predator
WATERBURY, Conn. (CNS) - A woman claims she suffered two years of sexual abuse from her boss at Post University, who preyed upon her by threatening her job.
View ArticleConservatives Want Info on Bin Laden Movie
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Pentagon and CIA refuse to give details of their alleged communications with the director of a forthcoming movie about the killing of Osama bin Laden, a government watchdog...
View ArticleChase Accused of Brazen Bankruptcy Fraud
LOS ANGELES (CN) - JPMorgan Chase routinely fabricated documents to deceive bankruptcy judges, going so far as to Photoshop documents to "create the illusion" of standing "in tens of thousands of...
View ArticleWoman Says Author Swiped Work on Obama
HONOLULU (CN) - A woman who wrote reminiscences about "then presidential candidate Barack Obama" claims another author swiped her copyrighted work and published it without permission.
View ArticleClass Claims Online Scam Charges for Nothing
(CN) - A federal class action claims an online marketing company defrauds customers with phony reviews to induce them to pay for "lifetime access" to material that's already free on the Internet.
View ArticleReporter Says Obama's Defense BillThreatens Him With Life in Prison
MANHATTAN (CN) - Reporter Chris Hedges sued President Obama in a federal class action, claiming the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act aka the "Homeland Battlefield Bill" threatens him and...
View ArticleHigh Court Won't Upset Another Church Firing
(CN) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to consider the employment claims of a woman who was fired by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa, Okla.
View ArticleJustices Pass on Student MySpace Mockery Cases
(CN) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to weigh in on a pair of rulings that found Pennsylvania school officials violated the First Amendment rights of students when they suspended them for...
View ArticleSchool Board Can't Use Prayer Policy Defense
(CN) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed on claims that a Delaware school board meets the establishment-clause exception that allows legislative bodies to open their sessions with a prayer.
View Article'Blazing Saddles' Doesn't Help Black Cop's Case
CHICAGO (CN) - A black deputy sheriff who was fired for not taking his job seriously cannot sue the department for racial discrimination, the 7th Circuit ruled, rejecting claims that detectives...
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