Judge Tosses Suit Over Howard Stern's Bonuses
(CN) - Radio personality Howard Stern cannot pursue a $330 million lawsuit against Sirius XM over unpaid bonuses, a New York judge ruled.
View ArticleBeirut Attack Liability
WASHINGTON - Iran and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security are liable to Evan Fain III and his family for the 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, a federal judge ruled,...
View ArticleTardiness Dooms Appeal Over Tainted Conviction
(CN) - Forensics testimony "probably" violated a man's right to confront his accuser, the 9th Circuit ruled Monday, but his appeal came too late to overturn.
View ArticleA Million in Penalites for Insurance-Selling Scam
(CN) - A pair of insurance executives must pay more than $1.3 million in disgorgement and civil penalties for securities fraud, a Kansas federal judge ruled.
View ArticleChicago Schools Don't Need Rehiring Procedure
CHICAGO (CN) - More than 700 laid-off tenured teachers cannot force Chicago public schools to adopt a formal rehiring procedure, the 7th Circuit ruled, adopting the recommendation of the Illinois...
View ArticleEscorts Get Mixed Bag in Fight Over Utah Sex Laws
(CN) - Utah can criminalize masturbating for a fee to close loopholes in prostitution laws, but another section of the law that broadens the definition of a sex act is unconstitutionally vague, a...
View ArticleProsecutors May Get to Use Activist's Tweets
(CN) - An Occupy Wall Street supporter lost his bid Monday to quash a subpoena for more than three months of posts on his Twitter account.
View ArticleChief, Trial Judges Say Admin Office Cannot Be 'Control Agency'
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - At a meeting with California's chief justice Monday, all judges and justices present agreed that the administrative bureaucracy over the courts needs to function as a helper...
View ArticleOnly Certified Doctors to Do Bus Driver Physicals
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is requiring that all medical examiners conducting physicals for interstate commercial motor vehicle drivers be certified by May...
View ArticleFCC Reviews Exclusive Contract Provisions
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Federal Communications Commission seeks comment on whether it should retain, sunset, or relax the prohibition on exclusive contracts involving satellite-delivered,...
View ArticleDeveloper Accuses Unions of Dirty Tricks
PHILADELPHIA (CN) - Nine unions angry about its hiring of nonunion workers resorted to asbestos and urine as tools of intimidation, a real-estate developer claims in state court.
View ArticleFirst Solar Execs Accused of Inside Trading
PHOENIX (CN) - Top bosses at First Solar, one of the world's largest makers of thin film solar panels, sold $400 million of their own shares after "downplaying" the extent of production problems...
View ArticleSEC Sues Former CEO of CalPERS
LAS VEGAS (CN) - The former CEO of the California Public Employees' Retirement System and a crony schemed to defraud an investment firm of $20 million in fees to the crony's placement agents, the...
View ArticleGood Samaritans Say Texas Acts From Spite
AUSTIN (CN) - A former probation officer and his wife claim in Federal Court that Texas, for no legitimate reason, prohibited them from contacting a paroled murderer they are trying to help...
View ArticleClass of Veterans Sues HSBC Over Foreclosures
MINNEAPOLIS (CN) - HSBC Mortgage Services illegally foreclosed on homes of dozens of veterans on active duty, without giving them the chance to seek judicial stay, a National Guardsman claims in a...
View ArticleCulture of Military Rape Assailed
MANHATTAN (CN) - A cadet who says she was raped twice at the Naval Academy claims in Federal Court that when she complained, "only the intervention of (her) parents and her congressman prevented...
View ArticleCop v. Cop at 'Titties & Beer' Party
FLORENCE, Ariz. (CN) - Two law enforcement officers claim in court that Pinal County sheriff's deputies assaulted, battered and defamed them as they did their duty by enforcing underage drinking...
View ArticleKaiser Class Action
LOS ANGELES - Kaiser Foundation Hospitals stiff "appointment center supervisors" for overtime, a class action claims in Federal Court.
View ArticleWoman Wants Adoption Case Ended for Good
REDDING, Calif. (CN) - A woman who touched off an international furor by returning her 7-year-old son to Russia 6 months after adopting him asked a Superior Court judge to enforce a Russian...
View ArticleShareholder Class Action
SAN DIEGO - Ardea Biosciences is selling itself too cheaply through an unfair process to Astrazeneca, for $32 a share or $1.26 billion, shareholders say in a class action in Superior Court.
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