Gamblers' Suit Has 9th Circuit Pulling Its Hair
(CN) - The 9th Circuit has no business letting two professional gamblers bring a federal complaint in Nevada over $97,000 seized from them at an airport in Georgia, dissenting judges argued.
View ArticleSplenda Class Action
OAKLAND, Calif. - Johnson & Johnson and McNeil Nutritionals misrepresent the supposed health benefits of Splenda Essentials, a "fortified no-calorie sweetener," a class action claims in...
View ArticleMovie Money
LOS ANGELES - Langley Films claims Nu Image, Leaves of Grass Productions, and Brooklyn's Finest owe it $300,000 for the films "Leaves of Grass" and "Brooklyn's Finest," in Superior Court.
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SACRAMENTO - Home Depot stiffs supervisors for overtime and makes them work off the clock, a class action claims in Superior Court.
View ArticlePhiladelphia Cops
PHILADELPHIA - A man claims two Philadelphia police homicide detectives questioned him for three days "while he was handcuffed to a chair and deprived of food, water [and] sleep," in Federal Court.
View ArticleKB Home
LOS ANGELES - Directors of KB Home gave the company's top officers $3.125 million in "unwarranted compensation" for 2011, despite the company's "dismal" performance, shareholders say in a class...
View ArticleCreepy School Guard
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Birmingham City Schools let security guard Michael Wayne Wooten run a photography studio at Dupuy Elementary School, where he took sexually explicit photos of little girls, for...
View ArticleJail Rape
DECATUR, Ga. - Former DeKalb County sheriff's Officer Jarman Joseph Steib committed aggravated sodomy on an inmate, the man claims in DeKalb County Court.
View ArticleThanks a Lot, BP
MINNEAPOLIS - BP owes Quali Tech Environmental $12 million for oil-skimming equipment it leased during the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and has the brass to say "not only that it was entitled to...
View ArticleProcess Created to Review Land Management
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Forest Service has proposed a rule establishing the process by which the public may file objections seeking predecisional administrative review for proposed projects and...
View ArticleJourney Producer Says Sony Owes Him $1M
MANHATTAN (CN) - A veteran producer for Queen, Guns N' Roses, Ozzy Osbourne and other rockers claims Sony Music Entertainment underpaid royalties for his work on 21 Journey songs and owes him more...
View ArticleDamages May Be in Store for Man Who Told Off Cop
WASHINGTON (CN) - A man who claims several cops harassed and arrested him over his use of "mild profanity" during a casual conversation with his police officer friend can seek punitive damages, a...
View ArticleWoman Seeks DNA From Suspected Dad
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A Jane Doe sued the University of California, seeking tissue samples belonging from a dead man she thinks may be her biological father.
View ArticleHead of Polygamist Trust Can Get $5M From Utah
(CN) - Utah officials owe more than $5 million to the administrator of a polygamist sect's $110 million trust, the proceeds of which have been tied up in a court battle for several years, the...
View ArticleSEC Claims CEO Lied About Felony Convictions
DALLAS (CN) - The SEC claims in court that a former chairman of the board of Standard Oil Company USA lied to investors by failing to disclose his convictions for felony securities fraud.
View ArticleFormer Bank Directors Fail to Duck FDIC's Case
ORLANDO (CN) - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. can sue the former directors of a shuttered bank for irresponsible lending policies, a federal judge ruled.
View ArticleTry Again, Judge Tells Ron Paul Supporters
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) - A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing the Republican establishment of thwarting Ron Paul's bid for the party's presidential nomination, but left the door open for...
View ArticleNo Retaliation in Pulling Hunting Show Support
(CN) - The host of a popular hunting and fishing radio show cannot prove that Kentucky officials retaliated against him for criticizing them on the air, a federal judge ruled.
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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 ArticlePress Group Condemns Arrest of Times Photog
(CN) - Reporters Without Borders, a nonprofit that publishes the Press Freedom Index worldwide rankings, slammed the "brutal arrest" of a New York Times photographer who captured a teenage girl's...
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