Volunteer Sues Megachurch for $10 Million
HOUSTON (CN) - A volunteer demands $10 million from Lakewood Church, a self-described Houston "megachurch," claiming its negligence and "criminal conduct" caused him to be wrongfully accused of...
View ArticleTexas Restores Its Historic Courthouses
DALLAS (CN) - The Texas Historical Commission could afford to fund only 13 of 40 counties' requests to restore and preserve historic courthouses this year.
View ArticleMaximum Sentence for Medicare Fraud
McALLEN, Texas (CN) - A South Texas medical equipment supplier was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for Medicare fraud.
View ArticleChicago Police Torture Case Revived
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CN) - The Illinois Supreme Court has given new life to a man who claims Chicago police beat and tortured him into confessing to a rape he did not commit.
View ArticlePublic Schools Call Pharmacia 'Wanton'
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CN) - A city school system says Pharmacia Corp. should pay for removal of all fluorescent light fixtures because they have toxic PCB's.
View ArticleMajor Media Want a Bite of LimeWire
MANHATTAN (CN) - Six major movie and TV companies have piled on the defunct file-sharing website LimeWire in Federal Court, months after its founder Mark Gorton settled related claims with record...
View ArticleForex Ponzi Man Must Pay $1.8 Million
PHOENIX (CN) - Tucson-based foreign currency trader Anthony Eugene Linton was ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution and penalties for running a Ponzi scheme.
View ArticleEx-Partner Sues Rezko/Blago Witness
CHICAGO (CN) - A man claims his business partner, a key witness in the Antoin Rezko and Ron Blagojevich trials, owes him $4 million after lying about their joint real estate projects.
View ArticleFeds Seize Pro Sports Websites
MANHATTAN (CN) - Federal prosecutors seized 16 websites and charged a 28-year-old Michigan man with making thousands of dollars by streaming live sports events over the Internet.
View ArticleReceiver Seeks $1.8 B From Stanford's Lawyers
WASHINGTON (CN) - The receiver in Allen Stanford's alleged Ponzi scam seeks $1.8 billion from Stanford's former attorneys: Thomas Sjoblom, and the law firms he worked for, Proskauer Rose, and...
View ArticleNYC Cabbies Fight GPS Tracking
MANHATTAN (CN) - Boosted by a recent Supreme Court decision, New York City cab drivers claim warrantless GPS tracking exposed thousands of drivers to bogus prosecutions and license revocations.
View ArticleWave of Class Actions Against Law Schools Over Grad Work Stats
CHICAGO (CN) - Three Chicago law schools published "Enron-style" post-graduate employment statistics that misrepresent their chances of getting a job, say students in three class actions.
View ArticleIs Pornography Copyrightable?
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A woman claims pornography is not copyrightable because it is not a science or useful art even if she did download some porn, which she did not.
View ArticleMedical
SAN BERNARDINO - A patient claims American Medical Response employee Jeffrey Zuidema assaulted and sexually battered her while transporting her in an ambulance, in Superior Court.
View ArticleJoe Arpaio
PHOENIX - A FedEx driver claims Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputy Sean Anthony Edwards-El assaulted and injured him without reason at a FedEx office, in Maricopa County Court.
View ArticleStarting Gay Rumor May Cost Restaurant Owner
(CN) - A Texas restaurant owner is urging the state Supreme Court to throw out a verdict that she defamed a customer by implying he was gay.
View ArticleGay Marriage Opponents Will Be Named in Maine
(CN) - The 1st Circuit upheld a Maine law that could force "marriage rights" organizations to identify donors who contributed $1.8 million toward fighting gay marriage.
View ArticleDecade-Old Comic Book Feud Comes to a Close
(CN) - A decade-long legal battle over ownership rights relating to comic book characters from the "Spawn" series concluded with the award of certain ownership rights to writer and developer Neil...
View ArticleLawsuit Nails Republicans for Big Hotel Tab
CHARLESTON, S.C. (CN) - The Southern Republican Leadership Conference booked nearly every room in the Charleston Place hotel for the Republican primary in January, and then skipped out on the...
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