No Writers for Hire, but These Guys Fit the Bill
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Maintaining that it never paid anyone to write about its smartphone war with Oracle, Google on Friday named 13 people and entities on its payroll who wrote about the case....
View ArticleTapeworm Death Suit Was Brought Too Late
(CN) - A widower waited too long to go after Homeland Security after his wife allegedly died of a tapeworm infection in her brain while awaiting deportation, the 8th Circuit ruled. Immigration...
View ArticleAudit Critical of CA Court Construction Office
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - An audit of California's courthouse construction program found a desperate lacking in uniformity, accountability and transparency. The voluminous report by an independent...
View ArticleSenor Frog's Was Kept in the Dark Amid Lawsuit
HONOLULU (CN) - The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission stonewalled the party bar Senor Frog's from understanding sexual harassment charges, a federal judge ruled. The commission first...
View ArticleSamsung Owes $1B for Breaching Apple Patents to Produce Galaxy
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - After just 21 hours of deliberations, the jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple more than $1 billion in damages for copying several of patents to produce its Galaxy line of...
View ArticleDad Pushing Autism Link Can Get More From CDC
(CN) - A federal judge found that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention excessively redacted information sought by a father trying to establish a link between mercury-based vaccines and...
View ArticleE*Trade Agrees to $100,000 Settlement
DES MOINES (CN) - Online brokerages E*Trade Financial Corp. and TradeKing Group agreed to pay $100,000 apiece to settle a three-state antitrust investigation, the Iowa attorney general said....
View ArticleCarroll Shelby's Ashes Finally Laid to Rest
DALLAS (CN) - The cremated remains of legendary auto designer Carroll Shelby were finally laid to rest after a dispute between his children and wife was settled. Shelby was buried in Leesburg,...
View ArticleEmployment
FRESNO, Calif. - Assurant stiffed field staff adjusters for overtime for 3 years, a class action claims in Federal Court.
View ArticleJudge Blasts Council Failureto Control Central Administrators
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Speaking for hundreds of reformist judges in California, Sacramento Judge Steve White blasted the Judicial Council over its failure to "unhorse" the powerful bureaucrats of...
View ArticleKaiser Hospital
SACRAMENTO - A patient lost a leg below the knee to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus she contracted at a Kaiser Foundation hospital, she claims in Superior Court.
View ArticleJ&J Settles Risperdal Cases for $181 Million
CHICAGO (CN) - Thirty-six states will split $181 million from Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Johnson & Johnson, which were accused of pushing the schizophrenia drug Risperdal for off-label uses....
View ArticleNuke Plants Must Report Faulty Permit Results
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is requiring plant operators to report any new information materially altering the basis for determining that construction permit...
View ArticleWill Dispute Puts Sherman Hemsley on Ice
EL PASO (CN) - The body of Sherman Hemsley, who played the cantankerous George Jefferson on television, has been refrigerated at an El Paso funeral home due to a family dispute over his will,...
View ArticleAlaskan Squirrel Not Endangered, Says Agency
WASHINGTON (CN) - Listing the Prince of Wales flying squirrel as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act is not warranted, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a proposed...
View ArticleNew Orleans Cheerful as Isaac Moves North
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - The Big Easy breathed easier Thursday, though more than 400,000 homes were still dark - 75 percent of the metro area - as power was restored to 9,000 homes ravaged by Hurricane...
View ArticleNo Proof of Bias Against Poor Disabled Pa. Kids
(CN) - A federal judge dismissed claims that the Pennsylvania Department of education underfunds special education programs in low income school districts. Parents of disabled students from...
View ArticlePull the Other One, FTC Tells SoCal Marketer
CHICAGO (CN) - A Southern California man created fake news websites mimicking names and logos of major networks to push acai berry and other products for merchants, the FTC says in Federal Court....
View ArticleGolden State Investors Lose Biased Tax Benefit
(CN) - Californians can no longer defer capital gains on the sale of in-state business stocks when they use the gain to purchase stock in another in-state business, a state appeals court ruled....
View ArticleBogus Charity Men Whacked but Good
AUSTIN (CN) - Texas fined directors of a phony charity more than $2 million for taking donations under false claims they would pay money to families of slain state troopers. The settlement...
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