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MANHATTAN - Georgianna Savas, sister of the late New York Expressionist painter Theodoros Stamos, claims Zacharias Georgiou Portalakis refuses to return her brother's art to her, in a $15 million...
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LUFKIN, Texas - A married couple claims the City of Center sent "gun-toting intruders" who "ransacked the house" for half an hour, until they realized they were at the wrong address, in Federal...
View ArticleFight for Affirmative Action in Texas Heads to Supreme Court
(CN) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether race consideration should play a role in undergraduate admissions at the University of Texas.
View ArticleState Can't Contradict 'Citizens United' So Easy
(CN) - As election season nears, Montana cannot ban corporate funding of political messages until groups challenging the law appeal the case in Washington, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.
View ArticleW.Va Ignored High Court on Arbitration Clauses
(CN) - West Virginia's high court misread and disregarded precedent on the Federal Arbitration Act, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, vacating a decision that unnecessarily limited the statute.
View ArticleMan on Death Row Loses Chance for Clean Slate
(CN) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday dashed an order to free or retry a death-row inmate convicted of double homicide more than 30 years ago.
View ArticleTax Fraud Justifies Booting of Immigrants
(CN) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed that the United States can remove a Japanese couple convicted on corporate tax fraud charges.
View ArticleJustices Toss Habeas for Jailhouse Questioning
(CN) - Rules for Miranda warnings may not apply to an inmate who was taken aside and questioned about events that occurred outside the prison walls, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
View ArticleMan Tracked by GPS Gets Another Shot at Lawsuit
(CN) - Following up on its recent decision that police need a warrant to conduct GPS tracking of suspects, the Supreme Court on Tuesday called for a similar handling of a 9th Circuit case.
View ArticleHouseboat Owner Takes Eviction Case to the Max
(CN) - A dispute over a houseboat docked at a Florida marina will head to the Supreme Court for review, the justices said Tuesday.
View ArticleStrict Standards Issued for Steam Generators
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Environmental Protection Agency has adopted new standards for reducing allowable emissions from electric utility steam generating units.
View ArticleApple Settles 'Death Grip' Claims Over IPhone 4
SAN JOSE (CN) - A federal judge approved a settlement to class action claims that holding their 4G iPhones by the bottom left corner caused a "death grip" for cellular service.
View ArticleAccused Fraudster Cut Off From Medicaid Funds
WASHINGTON (CN) - A medical staffing provider accused of submitting fraudulent Medicaid claims cannot pay its attorneys by dipping into the $1.8 million cache of frozen federal reserves, a federal...
View ArticleArbitration Won't Do in Finish Line Spy Scandal
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Finish Line, the sporting goods retailer, cannot arbitrate claims that a former manager secretly videotaped female employees using the toilet and dressing rooms.
View ArticleNYC Daily Must Face Defamation Claim
(CN) - Metro New York, a free daily newspaper, must face a defamation claim for pairing an article about gangs with the image of a black child photographed without his parents' permission, a state...
View ArticleLawyer Tossed From NY Bar After Stock Fraud
(CN) - A New York appeals court disbarred a lawyer who was convicted of 30 felony counts relating to a securities fraud scheme.
View ArticlePatent Fight Over Fetal DNA Sampling
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Two biotech companies and Stanford University will square off in Federal Court to determine who owns the rights to a noninvasive prenatal test that uses DNA sequencing to...
View ArticleBizarre Alligator Incident Lands in Fed Court
McALLEN, Texas (CN) - The beheading of a dead alligator, combined with alleged fear of animal rights groups, turned into a nightmare for an animal control officer, who claims his boss reported him...
View ArticleAttorney Class Accuses LexisNexis and West of Taking the Lawyers' Work to...
MANHATTAN (CN) - Attorneys claim in a federal class action that West Publishing and LexisNexis engage in "unabashed wholesale copying of thousands of copyright-protected works created by, and...
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