Fired Muslim Managers Accuse IHOP of Bias
DALLAS (CN) - Four managers claim in Federal Court that the International House of Pancakes and a Dallas-area franchisee fired them because of their Arab ethnicity and Muslim religion.
View ArticleStudent Strike Closes Montreal Court
MONTREAL (CN) - Montreal Superior Court was closed Wednesday afternoon due to a 2-month long student strikeagainst Quebec's plan to increase tuition fees.
View ArticleOld Ponzi Man Looking at Prison
OKLAHOMA CITY (CN) - A federal jury convicted a 79-year-old businessman of conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering in a $3.8 million real estate Ponzi scheme, prosecutors said.
View ArticleMother Claims Charleston Gazette Defamed Her
CHARLESTON, W. Va. (CN) - A mother whose four children were killed in a house fire claims West Virginia's largest newspaper defamed her by reporting that she had left the children home alone with...
View ArticleDocumentary Filmmakers Sue Jeffrey Sachs
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Two filmmakers claim in Superior Court that world-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs frustrated their efforts to make a documentary based on his book "The End of Poverty" - after...
View ArticleBP & Plaintiff Attorneys DeliverDetails of Oil-Spill Settlements
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - BP and attorneys for more than 100,000 people who sued it have handed a federal judge hundreds of pages of documents relating to settlements of economic and medical claims from...
View ArticleKimberly-Clark Demands $6 Million From IRS
DALLAS (CN) - Consumer products giant Kimberly-Clark claims in Federal Court that the Internal Revenue Service refuses to refund it more than $6 million it mistakenly overpaid for payroll taxes.
View ArticleMom Blames Depakote for Son's Birth Defect
CHICAGO (CN) - A mother claims in court that her baby was born with a penile birth defect because she took the epilepsy drug Depakote while she was pregnant.
View ArticleCity, Newspaper Wrangle Over Cost of Records
MADISON, Wisc. (CN) - The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week to determine who should bear the cost of censoring Milwaukee police reports the media request under public records...
View ArticleOil & Gas Fraud Ring Rolled Up
DALLAS (CN) - A Dallas-area oil executive was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $53 million in restitution for securities fraud, federal prosecutors said.
View ArticleMajor League Ump Sues After Concussion
BRONX, N.Y. (CN) - A Major League umpire sued Wilson Sporting Goods, claiming he suffered a concussion when his face mask cracked on a foul tip by a Cleveland Indians batter as the ump called a...
View ArticleProducer Sues Studio Over Sheen's New Show
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A producer who claims he helped develop the new Charlie Sheen TV series "Anger Management" sued Joe Roth's Revolution Studios for $50 million, claiming it refused to credit him...
View ArticleMining Firm Fights for Grand Canyon Claims
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (CN) - A Canadian mining company and county supervisors in northern Arizona claim in Federal Court that a ban on new mining claims on public land near the Grand Canyon is a...
View ArticleNovelist Claims Video Game Plagiarized
HARRISBURG, Pa. (CN) - A novelist demands millions of dollars from video game-maker Ubisoft, claiming it used his book to create the "Assassin's Creed" video game series and spinoffs.
View ArticleDoug Welborn v. Bank of New York Mellon; Bank of America; Chase Home Mortgage
A Baton Rouge court clerk claims that 16 banks violated federal anti-racketeering law to avoid payment of recording fees for the last 10 years.USDC Middle District of Louisiana
View ArticleNazi-Stolen Art Returned to Jewish Family
(CN) - The U.S. government returned a 16th century painting titled "Christ Carrying the Cross" to the family who lost it to looters during the Nazi occupation of France.
View ArticleConviction Over Severe Child Beating Tossed
HONOLULU (CN) - A man convicted of nearly killing his infant daughter in a minivan parked at the beach can get a new trial, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled, finding that police asked him to make a...
View ArticleDirty Truck Engines to Cost Volvo $72 Million
WASHINGTON (CN) - Volvo Powertrain must pay $72 million for making nonroad engines that do not comply with Clean Air Act emissions standards, a federal judge ruled
View ArticleFliers Nixed After Strike Deserve Compensation
(CN) - Finland's airline should compensate passengers who were involuntarily bumped from flights after an airport strike disrupted flight schedules, an adviser to Europe's high court said Thursday.
View ArticleJury to Hear Claims of Police Pig Pile Gone Bad
(CN) - Massachusetts police may be liable for allegedly tackling and suffocating a man who tried to flee a sobriety checkpoint on foot, a federal judge ruled.
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