Time Warner Can Keep Up Distant Rebroadcasts
DALLAS (CN) - A federal judge refused to stop Time Warner Cable from sending Nexstar Broadcasting-owned television station signals out to five distant markets. Nexstar had sought a temporary...
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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 ArticleCab Owner Raked Over Coals on Murdered Child
(CN) - A taxicab company owner may be personally liable for hiring a known sex offender now accused of murdering a 12-year-old boy, a Louisiana appeals court ruled. Prosecutors say that Brian...
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View ArticleTeacher, Threatened & Fired, Can Sue School
CHICAGO (CN) - School officials may be liable for firing a math teacher who brought criminal charges after a student threatened to stab him, the 7th Circuit ruled. The student, who is not...
View ArticleGreens Want Lead Ammo Kept Out of Forests
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (CN) - Environmentalists sued the U.S. Forest Service, claiming its refusal to ban lead ammunition on public land near the Grand Canyon subjects endangered California condors and...
View ArticleCity Council Insolence Can't Be Criminalized
(CN) - A California town cannot prohibit "insolent" behavior during city council meetings, but the law against disorder or disruption is solid, the 9th Circuit ruled. Immigrant-rights activist...
View ArticleElderly Ponzi Schemer Gets Eight Years
(CN) - An 80-year-old businessman was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for his role in a $3.8 million real estate Ponzi scheme. U.S. District Judge David Russell sentenced Joseph...
View ArticleMigratory Bird Deaths Could Have Been Averted
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (CN) - Citgo was properly convicted of deliberately letting migratory birds die in its uncovered oil tanks for years, a federal judge ruled. The U.S. government sued...
View ArticleStrip Club Owner Tried to Hire Hitmen
FORT WORTH (CN) - The owner of an Arlington, Texas strip club pleaded guilty Thursday to trying to hire hitmen to kill the mayor and a Dallas attorney, after the city forced his club to close....
View ArticleCop May Have Lied to Raid House Full of Guns
(CN) - The 7th Circuit denied immunity to a police officer facing claims that he lied to get a no-knock search warrant for a home with a dozen guns, and then shot an inhabitant. Fifteen...
View ArticleChild Endangerment, My Eye, Mom Says
HOUSTON (CN) - Police falsely arrested a mother for "child endangerment" after a neighbor reported that she had abandoned her children by letting them ride scooters in the street, the mom claims...
View ArticleGlass Breaks, Judge Says in Nixing Apple Lawsuit
SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) - A federal judge dismissed a class action accusing Apple of overstating the durability of the iPhone 4's glass casing, saying "it is a well-known fact of life that glass can...
View ArticleBattle Continues OverLil Wayne Documentary
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Rapper Lil Wayne filed a third lawsuit against the makers of "The Carter," the critically acclaimed documentary about him. Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. (Lil Wayne) says the...
View ArticleUSA Makes Muslim CitizenHero of His Own Kafka Novel
CHICAGO (CN) - A naturalized citizen sued the United States, claiming he is the only U.S. citizen in the country labeled a "Specially Designated Terrorist," which prohibits him from working or...
View ArticleSugar Daddy Dating Sites Advance PayPal Lawsuit
(CN) - PayPal cannot dismiss a lawsuit over its refusal to work with dating websites that cater to self-styled sugar daddies, a federal judge ruled. InfoStream and its CEO Lead Way claims that...
View ArticleAirline Holsters Case on Whistle-Blowing Blog
FORT WORTH, Texas (CN) - American Airlines has settled claims against the man who blogged about how the company bumped first-class passengers to seat its own executives and their wives....
View ArticleFake Marriage Leads to Law License Suspension
(CN) - The Ohio Supreme Court suspended a Ghanaian attorney who tried to attain American citizenship by fraudulent marriage. Lilian Antwiwaa Asante arrived in the United States in 2002 to...
View ArticleFull 8th Circuit Backs Minnesota's Corporate Political Donation Ban
(CN) - Minnesota can ban corporations from contributing to political campaigns but its regulation of independent expenditures is unconstitutional, the full 8th Circuit ruled. Unlike direct...
View ArticleRetired Judge Jumped the Gun on Benefits Suit
(CN) - A federal judge dismissed claims for additional benefits demanded by a retired jurist of the D.C. Superior Court who is on her way to getting relief administratively. Odessa Vincent...
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