Embassy Bomb Victims Hold Sudan, Iran Liable
WASHINGTON (CN) - Sudan and Iran are liable for the 1998 terrorist bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, a federal judge ruled, giving the foreign nationals who filed suit relief...
View ArticleGentle Marrow Donations Vault Organ-Sale Ban
(CN) - A federal ban on selling organs does not apply to sick children who need bone marrow transplants to survive, the 9th Circuit ruled Thursday, finding that modern technology has made the once...
View ArticleKidnapping Articles Can Infringe Photo Copyright
(CN) - Media outlets can use copyrighted images to help find missing children, the European Union's Court of Justice ruled Thursday, siding with newspapers that used portraits of a young girl to...
View ArticleUniversal BroadbandService Gets a Bump
WASHINGTON (CN) - In a move it estimates will give 7 million rural Americans access to high-speed Internet and reliable voice services over the next six years, the Federal Communications...
View ArticleLegislature Must Disclose Infoon Spending to L.A. Times and Bee
SACRAMENTO (CN) - California's Legislature has been ordered to disclose any and all information about how it spends taxpayers' money to the Los Angeles Times and the Sacramento Bee, a judge ruled...
View ArticleMinistry Ignored Orphan Abuse, Adopters Say
PENSACOLA, Fla. (CN) - Parents who adopted 11 Haitian orphans claim a Christian orphanage allowed its staff to sexually molest and assault the children, and subjected them to "a culture of sexual...
View ArticleClass Claims HP Suckers Customers
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A federal class action claims Hewlett-Packard, doing business as Snapfish.com, "has stolen money from its own customers" sending their credit-card information to a marketer...
View ArticleTommy Lee Describedas a Chintzy Boss
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A former assistant claims rocker Tommy Lee stiffed him for overtime, illegally docked his pay, refused to reimburse him for business expenses, charged him rent on a place he...
View ArticleMan Claims Lender Destroyed his Marriage
CHICAGO (CN) - A man claims a loan company destroyed his marriage through "sexual-scandal blackmail," by leaving a phone message - which his wife heard - that another woman had been making his car...
View ArticleHIV-Positive Boy Sues Boarding School
PHILADELPHIA (CN) - A mother claims the Milton Hershey boarding School refused to accept her 13-year-old honor-roll student and "avid athlete" because he is HIV-positive. She says the rejection...
View ArticleFBI Rounds Up Penny Stock Promoters
MANHATTAN (CN) - Federal prosecutors charged 13 people, including corporate officers, lawyers and a stock promoter, with using kickbacks and other criminal schemes to lure investors to thinly...
View ArticleThat Ain't the Way, EEOC Says
RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) - The EEOC sued Butterball, the nation's biggest turkey producer, claiming that when an HIV-positive worker complained of harassment, and that one harasser "had threatened to...
View ArticleSomali Refugee Admits to Terror Charge
SAN DIEGO (CN) - A 25-year-old San Diego woman pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges of conspiring to provide material to al-Shabaab, a foreign terrorist organization.
View ArticleHedge Fund Manager Nabbed in NYC
MANHATTAN (CN) - A British hedge fund manager was arrested Thursday in New York and charged with overvaluing the assets of the Millennium Global Emerging Credit Fund, where he worked, by more than...
View ArticleFight Over Snowmobiles in Forests Continues
BOISE, Idaho (CN) - A loophole in the U.S. Forest Service's travel management plan effectively exempts snowmobiles from regulation on National Forest lands, an environmental group claims.
View ArticleFeds Get 17 Days to Decide Whether to ChargeSex Defendant With Trying to Kill...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CN) - Federal prosecutors have until Dec. 19 to decide whether to proceed with murder-for-hire charges against a man accused of sex trafficking by force.
View ArticleFrog and Snake Claims Won't Upend Golf Course
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A federal judge has dashed attempts to ban lawn mowers and golf carts from a golf course that is home to the Californian red-legged frog and the San Francisco garter snake,...
View ArticleBig Fine Back in Play Against Infomercial King
CHICAGO (CN) - An informercial salesman must pay $37.6 million in sanctions for violating a court order that forbade him from deceiving consumers into buying his products, the 7th Circuit ruled.
View ArticleHe Already Had His 'Dog Day' in Court, Judges Say
(CN) - The "jail-house lawyer" who represented the bank-robbing muse behind the 1975 Al Pacino blockbuster "Dog Day Afternoon" must stop trying to get royalties from filmmakers, a New York appeals...
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