49ers Sue Santa Clara for Stadium Money
SACRAMENTO (CN) - The San Francisco 49ers sued Santa Clara city and county agencies to keep them from backing out of a deal to fund a new stadium.
View ArticlePublic Union Strife Roils British Columbia
VANCOUVER, B.C. (CN) - The British Columbia government and the province's teachers' union have struck a deal ending, until after the next election, a year of labor strife, but the union claims the...
View ArticleGreens Fight to Save 'Extremely Rare Orchid'
WASHINGTON (CN) - A proposed copper mine and livestock grazing threaten to wipe out an extremely rare orchid found only in two Arizona mountain ranges, and Uncle Sam is refusing to list the orchid...
View ArticleChain College Plays Tough With Illinois
CHICAGO (CN) - Corinthian Colleges sued the Illinois attorney general, claiming it "desires to cooperate" with the state's investigation of the profit-seeking chain college, but that the state's...
View ArticleOdd Intellectual Property Case From Disney
BROOKLYN (CN) - Walt Disney Pictures claims in court that the family of the man who called the races in which Secretariat became a legend has no publicity rights in a movie that does not use their...
View Article'NATO 3' Attorney Speaks of 'Provocateurs'
CHICAGO (CN) - Three men accused of planning to attack President Obama's campaign headquarters with Molotov cocktails during the NATO summit here in May entered pleas of not guilty on Monday.
View ArticleInjured Miners Want Criminal Restitution
BECKLEY, W. Va. (CN) - Sixteen coal miners injured in the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion sued the U.S. Justice Department and Massey Energy Co., under its new name, seeking to set aside the...
View ArticleNY Post Editor Must Answer Tough Questions
MANHATTAN (CN) - New York Post editor-in-chief Col Allan must answer questions he dodged during a seven-hour deposition on Valentine's Day, 2012, a federal judge ruled. These include questions...
View ArticleMan's Bizarre Tactics Fail to Win Tax Case
CHICAGO (CN) - An Illinois man's bizarre defense in a tax evasion case cannot save him from jail time, the 7th Circuit ruled.
View ArticleCourt Erred in Siding with Marijuana Growers
(CN) - The 9th Circuit gave the government a second shot at an Alaska couple who successfully argued that investigators could not possibly have smelled marijuana growing on his property because...
View ArticleJudge Makes City Accept Bronx School Prayer
MANHATTAN (CN) - New York City must let a Bronx church hold Sunday services at a public school, a federal judge ruled, despite a recent 2nd Circuit court decision upholding the city's ban.
View ArticleCourt Tosses Class Action Over Taco Bell Promotion
(CN) - A class that claimed Taco Bell sent unwanted promotional text messages failed to persuade a federal judge that the company was directly responsible for their annoyance.
View Article7th Circuit Rules Cop's Vehicular Stop Unlawful
CHICAGO (CN) - Police may not stop a vehicle only because it emerged from a site suspected of drug activity, the 7th Circuit ruled.
View Article"You'll Never Pedicab in San Diego Again!"
(CN) - The police may have illegally interfered with a former pedicab driver's right to drive his in San Diego by confiscating his valid license and allegedly telling him, "Your pedicab career is...
View ArticleVerizon Says FCC Net Rules Unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (CN) - Verizon Communications Inc. said the Federal Communications Commission's second attempt at imposing net neutrality rules on Internet service providers is an unconstitutional...
View ArticleGroups challenge permit for cruise ship terminal
WASHINGTON (CN) - A coalition of environmental and historic preservation groups sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, asking a federal court to invalidate the Corps' permit for a $35 million...
View ArticleBicyclist Death
OAKLAND, Calif. - A bicyclist died because the City of Oakland let Grizzly Peak Boulevard, a popular riding route, deteriorate despite numerous complaints, the late Allen Lee's family claims in...
View ArticleDallas Voting
DALLAS - Dallas' "single member district election system" for City Council dilutes Latino voting strength, two voters claim in Federal Court.
View ArticleEmployment
SAN JOSE - Zynga and Rite Aid stiff workers for overtime, employees say in separate class actions in Superior Court.
View ArticleBP Oil Spill
NEW ORLEANS - Eight insurance companies sued BP and Transocean in Federal Court, seeking clarification on which gets how much of $200 million in insurance coverage for the Deepwater Horizon oil...
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