Loan Caps
SAN FRANCISCO - In separate orders, a federal judge dismissed fraud claims against Lloyds TSB Bank related to a cap on loan principals due at the agreed rate.
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MANHATTAN - Home Health Care Services stiffs employees for overtime, a class action claims in New York County Supreme Court.
View ArticleCapital One Bank
BATON ROUGE - Capital One Bank allowed forgers to take $354,100 from a disabled WWII veteran's account, including two individual withdrawals of $100,000, without notifying him of the unusual...
View ArticleCustomers Sue Bank for $3.8 Million
ST. LOUIS (CN) - First Bank helped bilk Fidelity National Title Insurance of more than $3.8 million, Fidelity customers claim in court. Click here to read Courthouse News' Securities Law...
View ArticleSenior Homes Buyout
WILMINGTON, Del. - Sunrise Senior living is selling itself too cheaply to Health Care REIT, for $14.50 a share or $845 million, shareholders say in a class action in Chancery Court.
View ArticleMen Claim Crime Commission Defamed Them
CHICAGO (CN) - The Chicago Crime Commission defamed two men by calling them gang leaders in "The Chicago Crime Commission Gang Book," the men say in Cook County Court. Max Cerda sued the...
View ArticleMovie Biz
LOS ANGELES - Two investors claim in Superior Court that these defendants promised, but failed, to give them 15 percent return on a $150,000 investment in a movie: Morningstar Films LLC, Mad Dogs...
View ArticleGroup Wants High-Dose Aricept off the Market
WASHINGTON (CN) - High-dosage pills of Aricept, an Alzheimer's drug, should be banned because of possibly fatal side effects, Public Citizen says in a federal complaint against the U.S. Food and...
View ArticleSecurities
WASHINGTON - Christopher Keil Hicks failed to disclose multiple conflicts of interest involving his Portland, Ore.-based advisory businesses, Focus Point and The H Group, the SEC says in a...
View ArticleWater Slide Pileup Makes Splash in Court
SAN ANTONIO (CN) - A woman claims in court that she was injured at a Six Flags water slide when she slid into the person in front of her, who was stuck inside. Lori Ann Fischbach sued Six...
View ArticleSpotted Owls
MEDFORD, Ore. - The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Deer North timber sale near Grants Pass will threaten the protected Northern spotted owl, the Deer Creek Valley Natural Resource Conservation...
View ArticlePR Exec Accused of Insider Trading
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A business radio show host who is CEO of a public relations firm used inside information about an FDIC-assisted takeover of United Commercial Bank to make $43,800 from inside...
View ArticleNewspaper Bankruptcy
MANHATTAN - The Journal Register Co. and affiliates filed for bankruptcy, listing $100 million to $500 million in assets and liabilities; its flagship paper is the New Haven Register.
View ArticleDistributor Accuses Upper Deck of Fraud
SAN DIEGO (CN) - Upper Deck defrauded a distributor by granting it exclusive rights to distribute trading cards, then setting up competitors that it controlled, the distributor claims in court....
View ArticleKids' Swallowing Magnets Concerns Agency
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission plans to ban high-powered magnet desk toys because children are swallowing the magnets. Groups of magnets have been marketed as...
View ArticleBloomberg Doubles Down Against Living Wages
MANHATTAN (CN) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg sued the City Council to try to stop a "Living Wage Law," that construction and building service workers be paid prevailing wages. The City Council...
View ArticleObama Increasing Crisis Line for Veterans
WASHINGTON (CN) - President Barack Obama has directed executive agencies to expand strategies for military suicide prevention, which would include increasing the capacity of the Veterans Affairs...
View ArticleHey, Those Are My Diamonds, Jeweler Says
DALLAS (CN) - A Dallas jeweler demands the return of two big diamonds he says were burglarized from his store two years ago, and turned up in Hong Kong. Henry Kostman sued the Gemological...
View ArticleStubHub Knocks Out Suit Over Misleading Tactics
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - StubHub will not face claims over alleged promises of authenticity it made to users who bought counterfeit tickets, a federal judge ruled. Celina Porras failed to show...
View ArticleDallas Attorney Accused of Sticky Fingers
DALLAS (CN) - A Dallas personal injury attorney who hosted a call-in TV show faces criminal charges that he stole client money, state prosecutors said. Thomas Corea, of Palmer, was arrested...
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