Feds Must Do More for Quiet in Gallatin Forest
(CN) - The U.S. Forest Service neglected to consider how a boom in snowmobiles, motorcycles and mountain bikes in Montana's Gallatin National Forest will affect opportunities for backwoods quiet...
View ArticleGandhi-Inspired Opera Ushers In Occupy Wall Street Hunger Strike Outside...
MANHATTAN (CN) - An Occupy Wall Street activist declared the start of a hunger strike Thursday night outside Lincoln Center after the curtain fell on the Metropolitan Opera's final performance of...
View ArticleNo Court Will Hear Suit by Alleged Cartel Asset
(CN) - A possible member of the Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel who was arrested in the United States cannot pursue habeas claims in Washington and must refile in Virginia, a federal judge ruled, even...
View ArticleCalif. Can't Cut Big Bucks From In-Home Services
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) - Finding the governor's plan to cut millions from social services as part of the 2011-12 California budget "raises serious questions of violations of the federal due process...
View ArticleIPhone Users Lose Class Standing in Carrier Suit
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A federal judge has decertified a class that claimed Apple and AT&T illegally restricted choice of carriers, saying the companies can iPhone users' arbitrate claims.
View ArticleBank Holding Companies to File Capital Plans
WASHINGTON (CN) - Bank holding companies with more than $50 billion in assets will have to submit annual capital plans to the Federal Reserve and notify the regulator before making any major...
View ArticleFederal Judge Issues Order Halting In-Home Support Cuts in California
OAKLAND (CN) - Finding the governor's plan to cut millions from social services as part of the 2011-12 California budget "raises serious questions of violations of the federal due process clause,"...
View ArticleLGBT Rights Abroad Area Top Priority for U.S.
WASHINGTON (CN) - Saying that he is "deeply concerned by the violence and discrimination targeting LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered] persons around the world," President Barack Obama...
View ArticleFederal Judges Worry Over NY Budget Cuts
MANHATTAN (CN) - Budget cuts of $170 million to courts in New York state pose safety risks as some of these institutions stage prominent terrorism trials, the chief judge for the Southern District...
View ArticleApple-Motorola Patent Fight Goes to Illinois
(CN) - A showdown between Apple and Google over alleged similarities between the iPhone and Droid will relocate to the Northern District of Illinois from the Western District of Wisconsin, a...
View ArticleCroatia Joins EU Friday
BRUSSELS - The European Commission said it laid the groundwork Thursday to approve Croatia's membership in the European Union at the close of this week.
View ArticleEx-Wife to Collect $88K From 'Other Woman'
(CN) - A woman held liable for ending another couple's marriage must pay the spurned wife $88,000, a Mississippi appeals court ruled.
View ArticleCouncil May Be Liable for Axing Council Watchdog
(CN) - A former Pennsylvania councilwoman can pursue claims that she was threatened, faced false criminal charges and was unlawfully removed from office because she spoke out against official and...
View ArticleKaiser Permanente
OAKLAND, Calif. - Fraud and breach of contract action where plaintiff Charles Borreani committed suicide while he was taking a high dose of seizure medication prescribed by the defendants.
View ArticleFlorida Bans Gun Controls;County Sues the Governor
WEST PALM BEACH (CN) - The Palm Beach County Commission sued Gov. Rick Scott and the Legislature, fighting a new law that allows the governor to remove from office any local officials who enact...
View ArticleAntitrust
NEW ORLEANS - Preferred Pool claims in a federal antitrust class action that Pool Corporation and SCP Distributors conspire to monopolize the market for pool products and block new entrants to the...
View ArticlePrescription Drug
CHICAGO - A man claims he developed hypertensive encephalopathy with seizure and acute renal insufficiency from taking AztraZeneca's Seroquel, an anti-psychotic which it improperly pushed for...
View ArticleEmployment
LOS ANGELES - A longtime employee claims Pacific Bell Telephone and AT&T fired him illegally, for joining a labor class action as a plaintiff.
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