D.C. Circuit Says BigTobacco Is Still a Threat
WASHINGTON (CN) - The tobacco industry still is regulated by an injunction born out of a 13-year-old federal lawsuit that bars tobacco companies from misleading consumers about the risks of...
View ArticleDev Sues Record Label, Managers & Lawyer
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Singer-songwriter Dev (Devin Star Tailes) asked a Superior Court judge to void an agreement that gives her managers, attorney and their record label a whopping 75 percent...
View ArticleFeud Dismissed Between iPad Case Manufacturers
(CN) - A California court does not have jurisdiction to consider if a manufacturer of iPad 2 cases stole a competitor's business by improperly using the competitor's copyrighted product photos as...
View ArticleParaplegic Says He Was Shot in Back by Police
TRENTON, N.J. (CN) - A teen-ager who used a blank gun to protect himself from a gang mugging was shot three times in the back by police, the third time as he lay helpless on the ground, rendering...
View ArticleTrial Starts for UBS Execs Accused of Fraud
MANHATTAN (CN) - Three former Swiss bank executives faced a jury for the first time Monday on charges that they abused the bidding process on various municipal contracts across the United States,...
View ArticleOfficer Must Face Trial For Deadly Shooting
(CN) - An off-duty St. Louis Park, Minn., police officer who shot and killed an unarmed, intoxicated former-Marine who had been celebrating a friend's birthday, is not eligible for a summary...
View ArticleWitness Calls Arpaio's Sweeps'Like Something Out of the Taliban'
PHOENIX (CN) - In the second week of testimony in a class action civil rights trial, a witness to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's neighborhood sweeps described them as "like something out of the Taliban."
View ArticleEPA 'Guidance' on Coal Permits Slapped Down
(CN) - The Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its statutory authority in issuing a "Final Guidance" which all but ordered its regional offices to reject discharge permits for coal mining...
View ArticleApple, Samsung Lawyers Sparin 'Tech Trial of the Century'
SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) - Apple and Samsung began duking it out over the iPhone, iPad and Samsung's line of Galaxy products in Federal Court Tuesday in another patent infringement trial dubbed "the...
View ArticleChevron Must Prove Ecuador Fraud Claims
MANHATTAN (CN) - A New York judge indicated that Chevron must present proof of its extortion claims if it wants him to grant a statewide injunction blocking an Ecuadorean court's $18.2 billion...
View ArticleSports Photos
MANHATTAN - Andrew Shurtleff claims Dime Magazine Publishing Co. used his copyrighted photos of hoopsters Fabricio Melo, a Boston Celtic, and Sheldon McClellan, a Texas Longhorn, without...
View ArticlePhony Fish
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Sharky's Woodfired Mexican Grill restaurants sell Mahi Mahi dishes that do not contain Mahi Mahi, a class action claims in Orange County Court.
View ArticleSoCal Psychologist Pleads Guilty to Fraud
SAN DIEGO (CN) - A San Diego-area clinical psychologist on Thursday pleaded guilty to immigration fraud and Social Security fraud: falsifying medical certifications to the federal government, the...
View ArticleSEC Says It Nabbed Inside Trader
NEWARK (CN) - A director of Bristol-Myers Squibb was arrested Thursday and charged with making more than $300,000 by trading on inside information, the SEC said.
View ArticleMonsanto Claims $1 Billion Verdict
ST. LOUIS (CN) - Monsanto said a federal jury awarded it $1 billion in a patent case against DuPont Pioneer.
View ArticleEmployment
SAN BERNARDINO - Southern California Permanente Medical Group stiffs appointment center supervisors for overtime, a class action claims in Superior Court.
View ArticleAttorney Claims Legal Weekly Defamed Her
ST. LOUIS (CN) - An attorney claims in court that Missouri Lawyer's Weekly defamed her by grossly overstating how much she charged to serve as guardian ad litem in a family court case.
View ArticleAgency Plans for Input on Tribal Mineral Rights
WASHINGTON (CN) - After the Osage Nation reached a $330.7 million settlement with the United States for incorrectly managing its oil and gas mining rights, the tribe members may get a say in the...
View ArticleViaje de Rose: Graduation Day...
Rose Bouboushian is blogging for Courthouse News about her internship with the Fundación Aldeas de Paz (Peace Villages Foundation), a nonprofit grassroots nongovernmental organization. Click the...
View ArticleJudge Halts Symantec 'Scareware' Class Action
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A federal judge halted a class action accusing Symantec of using "scareware" to induce customers into buying other products, saying the lead plaintiff's complaint failed to...
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