Four Accused of Cheese-Washing Conspiracy
CHICAGO (CN) - Federal prosecutors accuse four people of conspiring to "wash" and redistribute 55 tons of salmonella-contaminated Mexican cheese, scraping off mold and fungus so it could be...
View Article$4 Million Spill From Thomas the Tank Engine
BALTIMORE (CN) - A mother's fall from a Thomas the Tank Engine gangplank led her family to demand $4 million from the B&O Railroad Museum, Mattel, and Hit Entertainment, for their "Day Out...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists Claim EPA Aproves Oil Dispersants Without Knowing Their...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - The Environmental Protection Agency and the Coast Guard violated the Clean Water Act by authorizing use of toxic oil dispersants on oil spills without knowing whether the...
View ArticleMissouri Struggles to Improve Schools
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CN) - The Missouri Senate passed two bills that would bring significant changes to the state's struggling school districts.
View Article$64 Million More in Oil Spill Claims Paid
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - An independent audit found the Gulf Coast Claims Facility shortchanged 7,300 people and businesses hurt by the BP oil spill by $64 million, according to the Department of Justice.
View ArticleDebt Collection CFO Going to Prison
MISSOULA, Mont. (CN) - The CFO of a debt collection agency was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for tax evasion and ordered to pay $159,000 in restitution, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
View ArticleClass Claims Cochlear Implants Fail
CHICAGO (CN) - In a federal class action, a father claims Cochlear Limited's ear implants failed inside his young daughter one month before the FDA recalled them for a manufacturing defect.
View ArticleA Stock-Picking Robot, Hey?
MANHATTAN (CN) - Since they were 16, British twin brothers - now 20 - bilked mostly U.S. investors for more than $1.8 million by claiming they had a "stock picking robot," the SEC claims in...
View ArticleClass Challenges ICE Use of Ankle Bracelets
DALLAS (CN) - In a federal class action, "noncitizen Americans" say the Dallas Field Office of Immigration Customs and Enforcement and a private "case management" contractor violate civil rights...
View ArticleVioxx Fines Total Nearly $1 Billion
BOSTON (CN) - A federal judge ordered Merck & Co. to pay a criminal fine of $321.6 million for marketing its Vioxx painkiller for rheumatoid arthritis before it was approved for that - this on...
View ArticleFamily of Man Killed by Toxic Waste Loses Award
(CN) - The 5th Circuit tossed a $2 million award to the family of a man killed by exposure to industrial waste, but the company behind the spill must still pay a criminal fine.
View ArticleSandi Rush v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores; Aeropostale West; AE Retail West
A paraplegic man sued more than two dozen retailers and Simon Property Group for violations of the American's With Disabilities Act at the Brea Mall. USDC Central District of California -...
View ArticleSuing Angelo Mozilo
LOS ANGELES - Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance sued Angelo Mozilo, David Sambol and two other former top dogs at Countrywide Financial, claiming MetLife lost $305 on misrepresented...
View ArticleTherapist of the Year
SAN DIEGO - A patient claims James Lee Hendrix, a licensed marriage & family therapist, "engaged in sexual contact" with her for his own gratification, and "over-treated and overbilled" her,...
View ArticleChevron Reaches End of Torture Liability Suit
(CN) - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a decision in which Chevron dodged a lawsuit over the deaths of protesters who took over its oil rig off the coast of Nigeria in 1998.
View ArticlePlastic Surgeon Can't Dodge Lipo Patient's Suit
(CN) - A Michigan woman can advance claims that a plastic surgeon used her as an unwitting and unpaid subject in a clinical trial for a liposuction device, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleActivist Dismisses Jury Nullification Indictment
MANHATTAN (CN) - An elderly activist has the right to pass out literature outside courthouses urging jurors to reach verdicts based on their consciences, even if the findings contradict the letter...
View ArticleManning Says Secrecy Dooms Fair Trial
(CN) - Days before the next discovery hearing, the lead attorney for alleged Wikileaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning criticized the government's "cataclysmic" withholding of evidence.
View ArticleRemovable Offenses
SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration authorities cannot remove Marco Antonio Robles-Urrea, a man who concealed a drug-trafficking conspiracy, because misprision of a felony is not a crime involving moral...
View ArticleShell Will Avoid Trial Over Receipt Details
CHICAGO (CN) - It would be pointless for a jury to hear a class action over account numbers that Shell Oil used to print on gas sale receipts, the 7th Circuit ruled.
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