Sierra Club Wants Records From Wisconsin
MADISON, Wisc. (CN) - The Sierra Club claims in court that Gov. Scott Walker blew off a consent decree ordering the state to replace three polluting, coal-fired burners, and that a staff member...
View ArticleJamaican Bigwig Claims Lawyer Defamed Him
FT. LAUDERDALE (CN) - A former Jamaican Minister of Information claims in court that a Ft. Lauderdale attorney defamed him in politically motivated emails that accused him of having close ties to...
View ArticleSEC Settles $32 MillionInside-Trading Cases
NEWARK (CN) - The SEC on Wednesday settled a $32 million inside trading case against a corporate attorney and Wall Street trader and a separate, related case against their friend, the commission...
View ArticleITC Says Apple Violated Motorola 3G Patents
(CN) - Motorola won a partial victory over Apple when an administrative law judge at the International Trade Commission found that Apple had infringed on two of Motorola's wireless transmission...
View Article2,600-Year-Old ArtSmashed to Pieces
MANHATTAN (CN) - Magazine photographers dropped a collector's 2,600-year-old terracotta statue while moving it for a shot, smashing the $300,000 piece of Nigerian Nok art for good, the collector...
View ArticleMom Blames Son's Suicide on School Bullying
SAN DIEGO (CN) - An 11-year old boy killed himself because his school failed to protect him from bullying, racist slurs and attacks, his mother claims in Superior Court.
View Article'Men in Black' Director Owes Ex-Agent $325,000
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A Director's Guild of America arbitrator ordered filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld to pay a $325,000 commission to his former agent, United Talent Agency, for money he made directing...
View ArticleBerkshire Hathaway
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - A federal class action claims that Berkshire Hathaway, which owns co-defendant CBT International, misrepresent the power and efficaciousness of their power-sweep augers for...
View ArticleXerox Class Action
SEATTLE - Xerox and its affiliates LiveBridge and Affiliated Computer Services make employees work off the clock and stiff them for overtime, a worker claims in a federal class action.
View ArticleSexual Abuse
OKLAHOMA CITY - Five women say they were sexually abused on mandatory inmate job assignments at the Oklahoma Governor's Mansion, in Federal Court.
View ArticleSex With the Doc
OAKLAND, Calif. - A dependent adult and his mother claim the man's psychotherapist at Alameda County Medical Center, Maria Santos Arriola, had sex with him repeatedly, in Alameda County Court.
View ArticleTech Patent
DENVER - Potter Voice Technologies claims Apple's "Siri" iPhone feature, and features on Motorola, Google, and others' devices violate its patent on a "Method and Apparatus for Controlling a...
View ArticleCalifornia Prison Cuts Producing Early Results
(CN) - A recently adopted measure to reducing overcrowded California prisons has put the state on the path to saving billions, Gov. Jerry Brown said.
View ArticleMob Researcher Gets More Acccess to FBI Data
(CN) - The FBI must release more records about one of its informants in the Mafia, Gregory Scarpa Sr., a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleCrafty Widow May Still Collect on Dead Husband
(CN) - A widow may get to collect $250,000 in benefits on a life-insurance policy she maintained for two years after her husband died, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleEU Slaps Netherlands for Overcharging Foreigners
(CN) - The Netherlands cannot discourage immigration from outside the European Union by overcharging for resident permits, the EU's highest court ruled Thursday.
View ArticleMore Time on the Shot Clock for Fired Coach
(CN) - A Division I basketball coach can pursue wrongful termination claims against the Louisiana university that recruited him and fired him about a year later, a state appeals court ruled.
View ArticleFeces Claims Stick to Cook County Jail Officers
CHICAGO (CN) - A federal judge refused to dismiss claims that a paraplegic man spent a two-month jail stint soaked in his own feces because guards would not provide enemas.
View ArticleEU Rests Mad-Cow Fears With Beef Import Plans
(CN) - The EU's governing body agreed Thursday to more than double imports of North American beef by August, ending a long dispute over the use of growth hormones by American and Canadian ranchers.
View ArticleCity Has Valid Reasons to Deny Adult Shop License
(CN) - An adult bookstore lost its challenge to a law that restrict its business in Alachua, Fla., after a federal judge found that the city has a legitimate interest in regulating such enterprises.
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