Debt Servicer Loses Bid to Compel Arbitration
(CN) - A federal judge has denied a prominent debt servicer's motion to compel arbitration of a class action filed by a California woman who says the company and its affiliates failed to settle...
View ArticleCharges Dropped Against 12 in Gabon Bribery Case
WASHINGTON (CN) - Federal prosecutors moved to dismiss charges against more than a dozen people accused of paying a $1.5 million bribe to the defense minister of Gabon to win a $12 million private...
View ArticleCustoms to Electronically Track In-Bond Items
WASHINGTON (CN) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection wants to add new restrictions to its "in-bond" merchandise program which allows importers to transport goods from one port of entry to another...
View ArticleEducational Items May Get Certified Later
WASHINGTON (CN) - Certain visual and auditory materials of an educational, scientific or cultural character may be imported into the United States without duty-free documentation, up to the time...
View ArticleThreshold Raised for "Qualified Investor" Test
WASHINGTON (CN) -The Securities and Exchange Commission raised the threshold for two tests used to determine if an investment advisor may charge a percentage of the capital gains of a client's...
View ArticleWorker Says BP Played Dirty in Ukraine
CHICAGO (CN) - A former employee filed a state RICO complaint against BP, claiming the oil giant fired her for reporting the bribes it paid to run a joint venture in Ukraine.
View ArticleTotal/Fina Must Cough Up $15 Million
DALLAS (CN) - Oil and gas giant Total/Fina will pay Uncle Sam $15 million to settle a complaint of knowingly underpaying royalties on natural gas from federal and Indian lands, the Justice...
View ArticleTough Terms Handed Out for Mortgage Fraud
DALLAS (CN) - Five defendants were sentenced to years in federal prison for a $22 million mortgage fraud scheme they ran out of the Dallas-Fort Worth.
View ArticleIdaho OKs Seizure of Protesters' Property
BOISE, Idaho (CN) - Occupy Boise sued Gov. Butch Otter, claiming a new law aimed at them allows the state to seize private property without a warrant, without probable cause and without suspicion...
View ArticleJudge Boots Attorneys From Patent Fight
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A federal judge disqualified attorneys for Talon Research in a patent squabble because they had represented Toshiba, the defendant, in earlier litigation.
View ArticleJudge Hears Arguments on Mandatory E-Filing
ATLANTA (CN) - No decision was reached in a hearing on a slew of motions in the class action against LexisNexis Courtlink and Fulton County, challenging mandatory electronic filings of lawsuits...
View ArticleSplit Ruling on Montana Election Laws
(CN)- A federal judge blocked parts of Montana's campaign finance and elections laws, which Republican and other groups claimed are unconstitutional.
View ArticleVersata Can't Shake Software Counterclaims
MARSHALL, Texas (CN) - A federal judge refused to toss state-law counterclaims against Versata Software, which accused software rivals of patent infringement after a collaboration effort turned sour.
View ArticleAttorney Claims Chase Bank Conspired
CHICAGO (CN) - An attorney claims Chase Bank helped freeze him out of his law firm by conspiring to put all the firm's assets under his former partner's control.
View ArticleElks, Spaghetti, a Jump, a Lawsuit
BEAUFORT, S.C. (CN) - A woman sued the largest predominantly black fraternal organization in the hemisphere, the Order of Elks, claiming she broke her ankle in an initiation at which members...
View ArticleSettlement Talks Delay BP Oil-Spill Trial
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - With billions of dollars at stake, the trial over the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history was pushed back a week as settlement talks between BP and oil spill...
View ArticleJudge Widens Injunction Against Gang
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) - After a 1½-year legal battle, a Superior Court judge issued a preliminary injunction against nearly 40 gang members, preventing them from gathering in Oakland's Fruitvale...
View ArticleCommercial Loan Broker Gets Three Years
DALLAS (CN) - A loan broker for an auto lube-and-tube chain was sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay $8.5 million in restitution for bank fraud.
View ArticleMOEX Pays $90 Million for Gulf Oil Spill
AUSTIN (CN) - MOEX Offshore, a subsidiary of Mitsui & Co., will pay Gulf Coast states and the federal government $90 million for its part in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Texas attorney...
View ArticleMinorities Sue Wisconsin Over Voter ID
MILWAUKEE (CN) - Wisconsin's Voter ID Law, "one of the strictest and most severe voter identification laws in the nation," discriminates against minorities, voters, a church and a union claim in...
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