Fairy Tale of High-End New York Real Estate
MANHATTAN (CN) - "Only in New York," a federal judge said as he refused to refund the $4.68 million deposit a woman paid for an "absolutely fabulous" Upper East Side hotel unit that lacked basic...
View ArticleJudges Won't Give Pass to Florida Voting Changes
WASHINGTON (CN) - Florida failed to prove that changes to its early voting procedures will not harm minority voters, a federal three-judge panel ruled. Though the panel refused preclearance...
View ArticleIce-T Accused of Stealing Idea for A&E Show
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A man claims in court that actor/rapper Ice-T and A&E swiped his idea for the TV series "The Peacemaker: L.A. Gang Wars." In his eight-page complaint in Superior Court,...
View ArticleThrashed Bar Patron Can't Sue Beer Baron
EL PASO, Texas (CN) - Anheuser-Busch does not owe a duty to keep customers from beating one another with longnecked beer bottles, a Texas appeals court ruled. Marty Gann was celebrating a...
View ArticleNuts Welcome at Faith-Healing School
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A Christian Scientist school refused to train its staff or protect students with nut allergies, but told a girl the ailment was "'all in her head,'" and could be cured with...
View ArticleLogger Loses Award for Timber Site Snake Bites
(CN) - A logging company is not liable to a worker who suffered debilitating bites from a diamondback while trying to catch the rattlesnake near his job site, an Alabama appeals court ruled....
View ArticleLegal Squabble in Kinkster Community
VANCOUVER, B.C. (CN) - A man claims in court that a sex educator defamed him on a social networking site for "kinksters" and BDSM practitioners. Read Courthouse News' Entertainment Law Digest....
View ArticleSchool System Settles Funding Fight With State
PHILADELPHIA (CN) - A federal judge has approved a settlement that will infuse a cash-strapped Pennsylvania school district with desperately needed funding. Claiming it was on the brink of...
View ArticleWalrus and Bear Have Nothing to Worry About
(CN) - Drilling in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's North Slope will not unduly bother polar bears and walruses, the 9th Circuit ruled Tuesday. The 38-page decision sides with the U.S. Fish and...
View ArticleLawyer Can't Squirm Out of 'Sister Wives' Suit
SALT LAKE CITY (CN) - Polygamists featured on television's "Sister Wives" can advance their challenge to Utah's bigamy law, a federal judge ruled. Kody Brown says he was "civilly married" to...
View ArticleDementia Should Have Factored Into Sentencing
(CN) - The 9th Circuit on Tuesday vacated the prison sentence entered against an elderly psychiatrist who started dealing oxycodone as symptoms of dementia set in. Joel Dreyer began exhibiting...
View ArticleImmigrant Claims GOP CandidatePut Him & Family to Forced Labor
SALEM, Oregon (CN) - Former gubernatorial candidate William Ames Curtright put an undocumented family to forced labor under threat of deportation, the family's father claims in Federal Court....
View ArticleArmstrong Stumbles in Fight Over Doping Label
AUSTIN (CN) - A month after slamming Lance Armstrong for failing to comply with civil procedure, a federal judge dismissed the cyclist's lawsuit against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. "Federal...
View ArticleJudges Push for Release of Critical Report on Court Construction
(CN) - California's reformist judges are calling for the immediate release of a long-awaited independent consultant's review of the state's courthouse construction program, saying the report,...
View ArticleWas NYPD Spying on Muslims All for Naught?
MANHATTAN (CN) - A federal judge unsealed explosive testimony Tuesday showing that a six-year spying program targeting Muslims has not uncovered any new leads. Though the NYPD initially denied...
View ArticlePublishing
PHILADELPHIA - Teri Woods claims DeSean Williams, Gasch Printing, Seaburn Publishing Group and others are producing bootleg copies of her copyrighted books and selling them on co-defendant...
View ArticleDogs in the News
HOUSTON - Shannon Lamb-Parker, publisher of Texas Dogs & Cats Magazine, claims Houston Pet Talk Magazine published seven of her copyrighted photos without permission, in Federal Court.
View ArticleBankruptcy
MANHATTAN - Broadview Networks and affiliates filed for bankruptcy, listing $100 million to $500 million in assets and liabilities.
View ArticleLatino Vote
SPOKANE, Wash. - The City of Yakima's voting system dilutes the Latino vote by denying them a Latino-majority district, two voters say in Federal Court.
View ArticlePro Boxing
WEST PALM BEACH - Fight Knight, a boxing promoter, claims the Estate of Vernon Forrest, a super welterweight champ who was killed by a mugger, owes it $936,749, in Palm Beach County Court.
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