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 -...
View ArticleActress' 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...
View ArticleDefense 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...
View ArticleCollector 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...
View ArticleMartha 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...
View ArticleAttempt 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,"...
View ArticleLawyers 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...
View ArticleDiet 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.
View ArticlePalestine 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.
View ArticlePatent 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.
View ArticleCricket 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.
View ArticleBackers 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...
View ArticleNDAA 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...
View ArticleClass 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.
View ArticleDeaf 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.
View ArticleGoogle 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.
View ArticleCalifornia 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.
View ArticleThree 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...
View ArticleMom & 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...
View ArticleClass 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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