Forfeited Issue Shouldn't Have Affected Inmate
(CN) - An appellate panel should not have used timeliness to deny a prisoner's habeas petition when the state chose not to raise the issue, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
View ArticleCourt Revives Challenge to Assault Weapon Ban
(CN) - Three Illinois gun owners can continue fighting an assault weapons ban they claim is unconstitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled.
View ArticleAlleged Ponzi Schemer Can't Shield Legal Papers
(CN) - Prosecutors can use documents normally protected by attorney-client privilege in an ongoing trial over a scheme that allegedly conned a thousand investors out of $194 million, a federal...
View ArticleJudge Greenlights Claims Over Jail Cell Telephones
MARSHALL, Texas (CN) - Telecoms that maintain phones in Harrison County Jail cells may be liable to the family of an inmate who hanged himself with a phone cord, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleKaiser Apathy Led to Back Injury, Tech Says
(CN) - A dialysis technician says in court that she injured her back while trying helping a patient whom Kaiser nursing staff had abandoned in a Fresno, Calif.
View ArticleJudge Tosses KBR Defense to Feds' False Claims Case
WASHINGTON (CN) - Defense contractor KBR cannot deflect fraud claims by accusing the U.S. government of failing to provide "force protection," a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleIPod Consumers to Enter Talks Settling Apple Monopoly Claims
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Apple faces settlement talks early next week after striking a deal late Monday in the antitrust class action over digital music products like iTunes.
View ArticleCourt Revives Claims of Driver's Licensing Ring
(CN) - The full 9th Circuit reinstated fraud charges Tuesday against men accused of running an illegal mill for commercial driver's licenses in Washington state.
View ArticleBP Engineer Is First to Face Charges on Oil Spill
(CN) - A former BP engineer was arrested Tuesday on charges that he intentionally destroyed more than 300 text messages that federal agents needed for their investigation of the Deepwater Horizon...
View ArticleAdviser Upends Software Reselling Business Model
(CN) - Companies that sell "used" software licenses violate EU copyright law by allowing new customers to obtain titles without paying software makers for the rights, an adviser to the European...
View ArticleHolocaust Survivor in Struggle With Museum
FORT LAUDERDALE (CN) - A Holocaust survivor says a Holocaust museum facing foreclosure harassed her for a $1 million donation, stole her property, and didn't use her contributions for their...
View ArticleItalian-German Wine War in California
LOS ANGELES (CN) - An Italian winery claims in Federal Court that a German wine distributor is relabeling and selling its wine on California's "gray market."
View ArticleClass Alleges Conspiracy in Tax Lien Auctions
TRENTON, N.J. (CN) - A federal class action claims that 26 people, banks and corporations, "who are among the largest purchasers of tax sale certificates in the State of New Jersey," rigged bids...
View ArticleInformant Claims A&E TV Endangered Him
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A man who says he blew the whistle on a racist gang known as Public Enemy No. 1 claims in court that A&E Television Network endangered his life by using his image in the...
View ArticleCloned Quarter Horse Breeder Claims Registry Has Monopoly and Refuses to...
AMARILLO, Texas (CN) - The American Quarter Horse Association is monopolizing and raising the price of horses by refusing to register cloned horses and their offspring, a horse breeder claims in a...
View ArticleA Fairly Strong Claim of Discrimination
PHOENIX (CN) - A black, Jewish principal claims a charter school fired her after subjecting her to intolerable treatment: setting up a Holocaust exhibit outside her office, forcing her to walk...
View ArticleSamsung Sanctioned in Apple Patent Fight
SAN JOSE (CN) - A federal judge has sanctioned Samsung Electronics for violating discovery orders involving internal design and marketing documents in patent litigation with Apple.
View ArticleSuing the NYPD
MANHATTAN - Antoine Brown sued New York City and four police officers, claiming they shot him, an innocent bystander, while "shooting an astounding 46 bullets into a crowd of over 150 people at a...
View ArticlePray for Gold
BOSTON - An investor claims Dominion Christian Church, of Brockton, and its president Alexander Hurt, of Dover, Mass., owe it $232,000 for supposed investments in Ugandan gold, in Federal Court.
View ArticleStarbucks Class Action
LOS ANGELES - Starbucks stiff assistant managers for overtime pay, a class action claims in Superior Court.
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