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Parents Say Bad Tylenol Killed Their Baby

     CHICAGO (CN) - Parents say in court that contaminated Tylenol drops killed their infant son just 13 days before Johnson & Johnson recalled more than 136 million bottles of children's Tylenol -...

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Actress' Injury Claim Snarled in Appeal

     VANCOUVER, B.C. (CN) - British Columbia's Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal gave former "Beverly Hills 90210" actress Gabrielle Carteris permission to pursue her personal injury lawsuit...

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Defense Demands Info in Terror Case

     PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) - A federal judge ordered the government to hand over certain communications to the public defense team representing a man accused of plotting to detonate a truck full of...

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Collector Wants Money Back for a Roualt

     WEST PALM BEACH (CN) - A man claims in court that a Palm Beach art gallery sold him a "hand-colored aquatint" by Georges Rouault for $13,250, and it took him 17 years to find out it was not...

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Martha Stewart Omnimedia

     MANHATTAN - Shareholders claim Martha Stewart Omnimedia issued misleading proxy statements about an "Omnibus Stock and Option Compensation Plan" to be submitted to a vote at the annual...

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Attempt to Settle May Leave Porn Titan Liable

     SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - An Internet porn distributor must face claims that it tried to extort a woman whose Internet service may have been used to download an adult video titled "Amateur Allure Jen,"...

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Lawyers Funding Claims CPA Embezzled

     SAN DIEGO (CN) - American Lawyers Funding claims in court that its accountant embezzled $3.5 million for himself, slipped another $1.8 million to a friend and $1.25 million to its former CEO - and...

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Diet Pill Taker Has Case Over Scary Ingredient

     (CN) - A weight-loss drugmaker cannot dismiss claims that it concealed the use of carcinogenic hexavalent chromium in the product Dexatrim, a federal judge ruled.

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Palestine Can't Be Sued Under U.S. Torture Law

     (CN) - Organizations cannot be sued under the Torture Victim Protection Act, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, affirming dismissal of a family's claims against the Palestinian Authority.

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Patent Applicants Have Wide Berth in Appeals

     (CN) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out some perceived limits to the evidence that unsuccessful patent applicants can bring in federal civil actions.

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Cricket Group Can't Stop National Board Election

     (CN) - The U.S. Cricket Association can hold board elections despite a challenge by a California chapter of the world's second most-popular sport, a federal judge ruled.

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Backers Abandon 'Stand Your Ground' Platform

     (CN) - Facing nationwide protests and an exodus of corporate backers, an archconservative lobbying group that backed "Stand Your Ground" and voter-identification laws abandoned its so-called task...

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NDAA Opponents Stretch Across the Aisle

     MANHATTAN (CN) - Lawmakers, free-press advocates, small-government partisans, conservative think tanks, pro-gun groups, border-control activists, civil libertarians, a pastor and a professor...

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Class Isn't Suitable for Facebook Ad Fraud Suit

     (CN) - Advertisers who claim Facebook overcharges them for fraudulent or bogus clicks cannot sue the website as a class, a federal judge in San Jose, Calif., ruled.

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Deaf Kids' Hearing Aids Aren't School Funded

     (CN) - A school district's obligation to educate disabled children does not require it to pay for hearing-aid maintenance, the D.C. Circuit ruled.

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Google CEO Can't Recall Much in Trial Over Patented Java Tech

     SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - If court testimony is any indication, Google CEO Larry Page won't remember anything about his company's alleged infringement of patented Java technology after lunch.

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California Nixes 700 Costly, Needless Reports

     (CN) - An annual summary of Australia's kangaroo harvest is one of more than 700 reports that California will stop producing, Gov. Jerry Brown said.

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Three Forks Springsnail Endangered, Says Agency

     WASHINGTON (CN) - The Three Forks springsnail is endangered and the San Bernardino springsnail is threatened under the Endangered Species Act, according to a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listing...

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Mom & Son Fraudsters Sent to Jail

     SAN DIEGO (CN) - A federal judge on Wednesday sent a Carlsbad real estate agent and her attorney son to jail to await sentencing after a jury convicted them of an $8 million mortgage fraud, the...

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Class Calls H&R Block 'Compliance Fee' Bogus

     KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CN) - H&R Block, which prepares one of every seven federal tax returns, charges customers a deceptive, and imaginary, "tax preparer compliance fee," a class action claims in...

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