Injunction for Chevron Slammed as 'Radical' by the Second Circuit
MANHATTAN (CN) - After months of delay, the 2nd Circuit explained Thursday why it struck down a "radical" injunction that would block Ecuadorean natives from collecting an $18 billion...
View ArticleFeds Must Show Impact of Horses in Sierra Nevada
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - The National Park Service did not properly study how horses and mules affect California's Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleNo Privacy Case in Video of Agent's Gun Mishap
(CN) - The Drug Enforcement Administration is not liable for releasing video footage of one of its agents shooting himself in the leg while lecturing children about gun safety, the D.C. Circuit...
View Article$200M Drop in Trust Fund Fund Is Worth Suit
(CN) - Managers of a billion-dollar trust fund will have to answer claims that they made poor and self-serving investing choices, though the losses did not affect the entire lifetime distributions...
View ArticleToymaker May Get Paid for New Hasbro Nerf Gun
GREEN BAY, Wisc. (CN) - Inventors of the air-operated foam dart gun can pursue claims that Hasbro owes loyalties for its popular Nerf brand of the toy, a judge ruled.
View ArticlePorn Makers Fight With Pirates Creeps Forward
WASHINGTON (CN) - A federal judge has called for further briefing on jurisdiction by filmmakers who made pornographic parodies of "X-Men" and "The Avengers," as well as a fifth installment of...
View ArticleCops Have to Answer for Handling of Dead Suspect
(CN) - Police questioning may have caused the death of a man who had just crashed his truck into a Chicago train station and killed two people, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleUnderage Beach Sex Case Heads to State Court
ORLANDO (CN) - State court is a better venue for claims that Volusia County and its beach officials fostered an environment where underage lifeguards felt coerced into having sex with their...
View ArticleKatrina Survivors Can't Sue Fed on Trailers
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - Mississippi and Alabama residents cannot sue the U.S. government over formaldehyde-laden trailers that the Federal Emergency Management Agency provided when Hurricane Katrina...
View ArticleKnives Come Out With Drop Dead Date Near on Court Reform Bill
(CN) -- Days before a voting deadline for a controversial court reform bill in California, judges and attorneys are putting heavy pressure on lawmakers in a final push for control of the purse...
View ArticleAircraft Presumed to Disturb Sea Mammals
WASHINGTON (CN) - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will presume pilots dipping below minimum altitudes over four West Coast National Marine Sanctuaries have disturbed marine...
View ArticleFCC Approves Spectrum for Neurostimulators
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Federal Communications Commission will allow a new class of medical implants used in neuromuscular therapy to access 24 megahertz of broadband spectrum.
View ArticleHead of AOC Reform Committee Resigns
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) -- Retired Justice Arthur Scotland has resigned his position as head of a committee looking into reform of the central court bureaucracy because of the appearance of conflict...
View ArticleBP, Transocean, Both Still on the Hook
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - BP must indemnify Transocean for third-parties' compensatory damage claims from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, even if Transocean is found guilty of gross negligence, but...
View ArticleYou Can't Sell What You Don't Own
HOUSTON (CN) - A Honduran rock exporter says it lost $500,000 thanks to promises from a Texan who claimed he owned an antimony concession in Honduras - but doesn't.
View ArticleGreed and Lies, StateTells ConocoPhillips
DENVER (CN) - ConocoPhillips took $70.6 million in state money to clean up underground gas leaks, then concealed that its insurers paid it another $286 million, to duck its obligation to repay the...
View ArticleIllinois Tells Standard & Poor's to Pay the Piper
CHICAGO (CN) - The Illinois attorney general claims Standard & Poor's defrauded investors by illegally and systematically misrepresenting credit analysis of structured finance securities to...
View ArticleChevron Still Faces Gas Temp Class Action
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Chevron must face a class action for unfair business practices from customers who say it buys gas at one temperature and sells it at another, a state appeals court ruled.
View ArticleNote to Jurors: Don't Bring Guns
FORT WORTH (CN) - A woman was arrested and charged with bringing a loaded handgun into the county courthouse when she arrived for jury duty.
View Article$2.4 Million in Fines for Polluting Ocean
BALTIMORE (CN) - A Greek shipping company and a Danish ship owner were each fined $1.2 million for dumping waste oil and plastic garbage into the ocean and obstructing justice, federal prosecutors...
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