Nurses Sue Governor for Right to Adopt
DETROIT (CN) - Two nurses who are raising three babies with special needs sued Gov. Richard Snyder, challenging a state law that prohibits unmarried couples from adopting children.
View ArticleVoters Challenge Missouri Redistricting
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CN) - Missouri's embattled redistricting process received another blow this week as citizens sued the secretary of state, claiming the map violates constitutional requirements...
View ArticleFeds Describe Heartless 'Return a Pet' Scam
MANHATTAN (CN) - A man on supervised release for investment fraud did it again, conning people out of $500,000 by selling sham "Return-A-Pet" franchises, federal prosecutors said.
View ArticleAsset Recovery Service Claims Insurers Owe State $524 Million
CHICAGO (CN) - An asset recovery service claims it discovered a "massive fraud" by Metropolitan Life Insurance and Prudential Financial, which kept more than $524 million in unclaimed life...
View Article'What the Heck Was That All About?'
DALLAS (CN) - A diesel mechanic who was making himself lunch in his kitchen says Dallas police fired a flash bomb through his back door, smashed through and "zip tied" his hands behind his back,...
View Article'Organic Baker' Gets Five Years in Prison
DALLAS (CN) - A woman who claimed to be an organic baker and an "international consultant" was sentenced Tuesday to five years in federal prison for defrauding investors of more than $2 million.
View ArticleJudiciary CommitteeTackles Eminent Domain
WASHINGTON (CN) - The House Judiciary Committee amended the Private Property Rights Protection Act so that states that use eminent domain to seize land for private development can be penalized -...
View ArticleClass Claims EBay Ad Program Flopped
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - EBay didn't deliver on its promises to sellers who paid $39.95 for its "Featured Plus!" service that was supposed to bump their ads to the top of a search page, customers say...
View ArticleSikh Sues Jay LenoOver a Joke
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A Sikh man claims Jay Leno defamed him and his religious group by telling a joke on his show: that Mitt Romney's summer vacation home is the Golden Temple of Amritsar in India,...
View ArticlePolice Work
OKLAHOMA CITY - A woman claims Oklahoma Department of Public Safety trooper Patrick Venable pulled her over, then drove her to her home, where he "raped plaintiff as well as forced her to have...
View ArticleFish Quotas
ANCHORAGE - Loughbeg Fisheries claims the National Marine Fisheries Service illegally limited the number of quota shares for which "entry level fisheries" such as Loughbeg can qualify under the...
View ArticleNexion Health
MANHATTAN - Nexion Health's former CFO Bretton Bolt demands $20 million from the company and its CEO Francis Kirley, in a shareholder derivative complaint alleging breach of fiduciary duties,...
View ArticleCops Still Face Claims of Beating Kids at Parade
(CN) - Police officers may be liable for using their batons to hit children who stepped into the street during a parade to hug marching family members, the D.C. Circuit ruled.
View ArticleU.S. Bids Adieu to Stolen Pissarro Painting
(CN) - A Camille Pissarro masterpiece is on its way back to France more than 30 years after it was stolen from a museum there, prosecutors said at a repatriation ceremony Wednesday with the French...
View ArticleFalse-Complaint Firing Wasn't LAPD Retaliation
(CN) - The Los Angeles Police Department does not have to pay $2 million for firing a traffic cop who made unsubstantiated sexual harassment charges against a male supervisor, a California appeals...
View ArticlePolice Dodge Suit Over RNC Protest Crackdown
(CN) - Protestors who were arrested at the 2008 Republican National Convention cannot sue St. Paul, Minn., and its police officers, the 8th Circuit ruled.
View ArticleTeen Sex Offenders Lose Registration Challenge
(CN) - Teenage sex offenders must register with the government even though they were juveniles at the time they abused other minors, the 9th Circuit ruled Wednesday.
View ArticleBig Step for Women Trying to Link Cancer and In-Utero Hormone
(CN) - In a blow to pharmaceutical companies, a federal judge has agreed to let experts testify that a pregnant woman's use of synthetic estrogen increases the risk of her daughter developing...
View ArticleControversial Court IT System Pushed for Ten More Courts
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) -- Despite recent setbacks, judges on the the governing council for California's courts announced Tuesday they are pushing ahead with plans to install a controversial IT system...
View ArticleObama Vows to Speed UpVisas for Business Class
WASHINGTON (CN) - President Barack Obama ordered the Departments of State and Homeland Security to speed up visa processing for foreign business travelers wishing to enter the United States.
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