Terrible Towel Knockoff Won't Hit the Shelves
PITTSBURGH (CN) - An enterprising Steelers fan violated the football club's trademark by selling a product called The Terrible T-Shirt, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleEPA Can Shield Studies Into Exxon Valdez Spill
WASHINGTON (CN) - ExxonMobil cannot access government studies about oil that has lingered beneath the surface in the Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska, which were the site of the massive...
View ArticleJudge to Seal Filings in KBR False Claims Suit
(CN) - Halliburton and KBR can redact portions of their motion to dismiss claims that they knowingly billed the United States for fictitious services, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleGermany Can't Keep Money for Nazi-Era Land
(CN) - Germany violated civil rights by not compensating everyone injured by a tangled property dispute stretching across the country's Nazi and socialist eras, the European Court of Human Rights...
View ArticlePotash Price-Fixing Suit to Go Before Full Court
CHICAGO (CN) - A full 7th Circuit panel will rehear arguments in a class action that alleges global price-fixing of potash, a common agricultural fertilizer.
View ArticleDetective Is on the Hook for Way-Off Warrant
(CN) - A California couple can sue the detective whose faulty warrant set off an early morning SWAT team search of their home for their already incarcerated son, the 9th Circuit ruled Friday.
View ArticleSony Brushes Off Claims Over PS3 Upgrade
(CN) - A federal judge has dismissed the remaining claim by class who said Sony reneged on its promise to let PlayStation 3 video game consoles function as computers.
View ArticleMore Oil Spill Claims Dismissed
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - Some oil spill claims from Alabama, Louisiana and three Mexican states were dismissed Friday by the judge overseeing consolidated oil spill litigation from the Deepwater Horizon...
View ArticleJudge Rips 'Spectaculary Incompetent' Lawyers
(CN) - A state judge in Houston ripped prosecutors and the defense attorney as "spectacularly incompetent," and apologized to a man who was in jail at the time of an armed robbery for which he was...
View ArticleTwo More Get Prison for Inside Trading
MANHATTAN - Two Miami Beach day traders were sentenced to 2½ years and 6 months in prison for illegal inside trading.
View ArticleAbortion Opponents SueGovernor of Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (CN) - The Rhode Island State Right to Life Committee and 28 state legislators say Gov. Lincoln Chafee illegally bypassed the Legislature in issuing an executive order to create a...
View ArticleSci-Fi Writer Claims Credit for 'Avatar'
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A science-fiction writer claims James Cameron and his production company ripped off his story "KRZ 2068" and made the film "Avatar" from it, the top-grossing box office film of...
View Article'A Price List ... for Sex Acts' at Arkansas College
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (CN) - An exchange student claims an administrator at Philander Smith College sexually assaulted her after asking "if she wanted to make money stripping and dancing at a party,"...
View Article$150 Million Mortgage Fund Ponzi Scheme
SEATTLE (CN) - A bankruptcy trustee claims a mortgage investment fund operator defrauded 750 investors in a $150 million Ponzi scheme and an accounting firm turned a "blind eye" to it.
View ArticleLouie Louie, Oh Babe,Where's the $200,000?
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Gusto Records claims The Kingsmen owe it $200,000 in royalties for "Louie Louie," the song the FBI investigated for obscenity, then decided that it was "unintelligible at any...
View ArticleAnnual Fight Erupts Over Nativity Scene
ATHENS, Texas (CN) - A nativity scene on the lawn of the Henderson County Courthouse has drawn the ire of a Wisconsin-based state-church watchdog group, but a county commissioner says the scene...
View ArticleTexas Court Clerk Abused her Office
McKINNEY, Texas (CN) - The former Collin County District Clerk and two of her employees were convicted of abuse of office: doing campaign work on county time for the clerk's 2010 re-election.
View ArticleL.A. Fights Condom Law for Porn Actors
LOS ANGELES (CN) - The City of Los Angeles says a proposed initiative that would require porn actors to wear condoms is pre-empted by state law and could end up costing taxpayers millions of dollars.
View ArticleShow and Tell Nearly Killed Her
ATLANTA (CN) - A mother claims her daughter nearly died of a bite from a poisonous spider the girl's elementary teacher brought to school for show and tell.
View ArticleRefugees Say Iranian & Iraqi MilitaryAttacked & Pillaged Camp in 'Bloodbath'
WASHINGTON (CN) - Iranian refugees in Iraq say military forces of the two countries cooperated in storming their settlement, firing indiscriminately from Humvees into peaceful crowds, killing...
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