Diaper Giants Head to Trial on Patent Claims
HARRISBURG, Pa. (CN) - A jury should decide whether diapers sold by retailers like Rite-Aid and Walgreens infringe patents held by Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, the company that makes Huggies, a...
View ArticleRace Bias Charge Could Stick on Housing Body
(CN) - A Virginia housing authority must face racial-discrimination charges brought by a minority-owned business that worked on a development project, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleSchool Dodges Suit Over Bullying of Teenage Girl
(CN) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming that a Delaware school district is liable for allegedly letting a student sexually, physically and verbally abuse his girlfriend.
View ArticleGroup Fights for Innocent Casualties of Megaupload
(CN) - Innocent Megaupload users lost access to legal data when the federal government recently shut down the website, the Electronic Frontier Foundation claims, calling for the government to...
View ArticleSierra Nevada Plan Left Out Critical Fish Details
(CN) - The U.S. Forest Service neglected to study how increased logging, road-building and livestock grazing in national forests throughout California's Sierra Nevada Mountains would affect fish...
View ArticleFinance Gurus Defend Blog Defamation Award
PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) - A financial company has urged a federal judge to uphold a $2.5 million jury verdict against a self-described investigative blogger.
View ArticleIllinois A.G. Goes After Robo Signer
CHICAGO (CN) - In suing Nationwide Title Clearing, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan provides a look at the "assembly line procedures" in which "signers" signed thousands of mortgage...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists Alarmed at Seven-Year Oil Leak in the Gulf
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - A broken underwater wellhead has been dumping 4,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico for seven years, and neither its owner nor state or federal governments have...
View ArticleNot Quite Smart Enough: 2½ Years to Regret It
(CN) - A 26-year-old Hungarian man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for hacking into Marriott International's computers and threatening to reveal confidential information if the...
View ArticleState Wants $95 Million From Northern Trust
LOS ANGELES (CN) - California claims Northern Trust Corp. played "heads we win, tails you lose" with state pension funds, then forced the L.A. City Employees' Retirement System to cover its $95...
View ArticleDefamed Firm Fights New Trial for Blogger
PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) - An "investigative blogger" who criticized a financial company does not deserve a new trial, says a company who claims just one of her posts did $2.5 million in damage to its...
View ArticleThat's not the Help He Wanted
(CN) - A depressed Army reservist who made a phone call for help says dozens of police responded by surrounding his home and arresting him, vandalizing and searching his place without a warrant,...
View ArticleCollector Says Gallery Took $950K for Forgeries
MANHATTAN (CN) - An art collector claims a Midtown gallery sold him nearly $1 million in bogus artwork it attributed to Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.
View ArticlePlanned Parent Sues Tennessee for Funding
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CN) - Planned Parenthood claims Tennessee killed nearly $150,000 in funding for venereal disease prevention programs to punish it for its "association with" and "advocacy for...
View ArticleEmbezzlement Ring Rolled Up
DALLAS (CN) - A husband and wife were convicted of helping to embezzle $2 million from Garland, Texas.
View ArticleGrim Complaint Against Kaiser Hospital
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (CN) - A son claims a Kaiser hospital ignored his wealthy father's power of attorney so the plaintiff's greedy siblings could collect multimillion-dollar inheritances.
View ArticleSterling Bank VP Gets 1½ Years
HOUSTON (CN) - A former senior vice president at Sterling Bank was sentenced to 1 1/2 years in federal prison for stealing from customer accounts.
View ArticleWriter's Kid Fights to Revive 'Raging Bull' Suit
PASADENA, Calif. (CN) - Since MGM profited from home editions of Martin Scorsese's classic "Raging Bull," the studio was not prejudiced by an 18-year delay in copyright claims by a writer's...
View ArticleProsecutor Still on the Hook for Torture Link
(CN) - A prosecutor cannot get immunity from claims that he put an innocent man on death row by knowingly accepting a coerced confession, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleMortgage Frauds Were All in the Family
DALLAS (CN) - A Dallas man was sentenced to 6½ in federal prison for $1.3 million mortgage fraud, and his nephew to 1 1/2 years.
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