EU Red Tape Slashed for Foreign Inheritances
(CN) - EU legislators adopted a proposal that will make it easier for citizens to collect inheritances after the deaths of loved ones who lived in a different EU country.
View ArticleAdoption Agency May Be Liable for Child's Rape
PHILADELPHIA (CN) - A federal judge refused to dismiss claims that an adoption agency is liable for the rape of a 2-year-old boy because it failed to disclose the prior sexual abuse experienced by...
View ArticleCourt Stakes Self-Styled Vampire Inmate's Case
(CN) - The 5th Circuit rejected a frivolous appeal from a self-described "vampire high priest" who says he has suffered religious discrimination in a Texas prison.
View ArticleChristian Photographers Can't Ignore Gay Clients
(CN) - A Christian-owned photography studio violated anti-discrimination laws by refusing to take pictures for a gay couple's commitment ceremony, the New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled.
View ArticleDecades-Old Communist Probe to Stay Private
(CN) - Teachers who were promised confidentiality during an investigation by the New York City Board of Education into Communist Party in the 1940s are still entitled to privacy, the New York...
View ArticleFrosted Wheats Settlement Debated in the 9th
PASADENA, Calif. (CN) - An attorney urged the 9th Circuit to reject a $10.6 million settlement for a class which claimed Kellogg falsely advertised its Frosted Mini-Wheats as improving kids'...
View ArticleGeneral Counsel's Office Focus of Criticism in Wake of Judges' Report
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - In the wake of a scathing critique of California's court bureaucracy, trial judges have targeted the General Counsel's Office within that bureaucracy as inefficient,...
View ArticleFed Confirms VolckerRule Compliance Dates
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve confirmed that banks and financial companies it regulates will have until July 21, 2014 to conform to Section 619 of the Dodd-Frank...
View ArticleAliens Don't Have to Livein State to Buy A Gun
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau has removed the 90-day state residency requirement for aliens lawfully present in the United States to buy a gun.
View ArticleStudent Loan Repayment Apps to Be Streamlined
WASHINGTON (CN) - President Barack Obama ordered the Internal Revenue Service to make it possible for student loan borrowers to import their federal tax information directly into Department of...
View ArticleDemo of 'Terminated' Court ITSystem Raises Fear of Its Return
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - The recent demonstration of a thought-to-be-terminated court IT system has brought fear that it is rising from its grave.
View ArticleEPA Proposes New Use Requirements for Fungus
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a significant new use rule for the fungus Tirchoderma reesei, which is used in the production of ethanol.
View Article'Investment Grade'Securities Redefined
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency dropped requirements that national banks and federal savings and loans use credit ratings agencies to demonstrate that their...
View ArticleLouisiana Jury Rules in Favor of Kevin Costner
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - A jury on Thursday evening ruled in favor of Kevin Costner in a $21 million lawsuit that claimed he and others tricked Stephen Baldwin and a partner into selling their interests...
View ArticleTruckers Fight Oregon's Money Grab
SALEM, Ore. (CN) - Trucking, construction and insurance groups sued Oregon, claiming it used road money to build websites instead - then jacked up the cost of driving records by nearly 400 percent...
View ArticleDallas Is Still Waiting for Its Bus
DALLAS (CN) - Waiting-room and other problems will force low-cost, intercity bus line Megabus to wait for its long-awaited debut in Dallas, as the city called its downtown stop illegal, in a...
View ArticleMore Delegates Want to Join Repub Revolt
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) - In a revolt against Romney, at least 40 more national convention delegates asked to join 123 previous plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Republican National Committee,...
View ArticleEx-School Superintendent Is in the Soup
(CN) - The former superintendent of El Paso Independent School District pleaded guilty to failing to disclose his financial interest in a fraudulent $450,000 contract with the district, and...
View ArticleParents Sue School Over Forced Shower
FORT WORTH (CN) - Parents claim in court that employees at a Weatherford elementary school forced their 8-year-old son to strip, then violently washed and berated him for being "smelly" and "dirty."
View ArticleCremation Mixup Ends Up in Court
DALLAS (CN) - The family of a Dallas woman claims in court that a funeral home confused her body with another person's, so no one knows now whose cremated ashes are whose.
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