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MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Southern Poverty Law Center demands that Alabama Superintendent of Education Thomas Bice release information on the effect the state's 2011 immigration law, HB 56, had on...
View ArticleNo Team Players at That Job, Man Says
CHICAGO (CN) - A man claims his co-workers put homosexual ads, women's underwear, tampons and a wooden penis at his desk - and he was fired for complaining to his boss. Antonio Melone sued the...
View ArticleShareholder Class Action
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Ceradyne is selling itself to 3M too cheaply through an unfair process, for $35 a share or $860 million, shareholders claim in Orange County Court.
View ArticleGoogle Urges Court to Toss Gmail Privacy Suit
(CN) - A class is "contorting" state law "in ways the California Legislature never intended" by claiming that Gmail violates California privacy statutes, Google said in a motion to dismiss....
View ArticleSamsung Class Action
TRENTON, N.J. - Samsung sells plasma, LCD and DLP televisions with defective fuses that cause the sets to fail early, a class action claims in Federal Court.
View ArticleOil Industry Sues SEC Over Disclosures
WASHINGTON (CN) - The oil and gas industry and the Chamber of Commerce sued the SEC to try to stop a final rule forcing the industry to disclose payments of more than $100,000 to foreign governments...
View ArticleRefugee Admissions Reduced by 6,000
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. plans to admit 70,000 asylum-seeking refugees in 2013, according to the annual presidential memorandum on the subject. The new threshold represents 6,000 fewer...
View ArticleShareholders Fight MetroPCS-T-Mobile Merger
DALLAS (CN) - MetroPCS and T-Mobile, the nation's fourth- and fifth-largest wireless phone service providers, are cheating shareholders in their "drastically undervalued" merger, shareholders say...
View ArticleGrieving Mom Is 10 Years Too Late With Theories
(CN) - A woman whose son died of a heart attack after an ambulance responded to the wrong house cannot advance new theories in liability, a New York appeals court ruled. Hannes Hollo had a...
View ArticleLawmaker Sues State Bar Over Lobbying
LINCOLN, Neb. (CN) - A Republican lawmaker challenged the Nebraska State Bar Association's practice of using mandatory dues for lobbying. Scott Lautenbaugh, a state senator from Omaha, filed a...
View ArticleBP Can't Plug Claims of Stealing Oil Spill Fix
TAMPA, Fla. (CN) - A federal judge refused to dismiss claims that BP stole a Clearwater man's invention to clean up the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill that contaminated the Gulf Coast....
View ArticleICE Used Her as Bait, Teenager Says
TUCSON (CN) - Border patrol officers coerced a teenage Guatemalan girl into being bait in a sting against human smugglers, then shot at a vehicle in which they knew she was riding, and it crashed,...
View ArticleHathiTrust E-Library Has Shield in Fair Use
(CN) - Fair use protects a digital library's "invaluable contribution to the progress of science and cultivation of the arts" from disgruntled authors, a federal judge ruled. In September...
View ArticleUndermined Hunting Appeal Baffles Judges
WASHINGTON (CN) - The D.C. Circuit slammed a federal agency and three elephant hunters for an "inexcusable" and "extraordinary 'waste of judicial resources.'" The parties were in court...
View ArticleLoggers Fight U.S. Survey Deal With Enviro Groups
SEATTLE (CN) - Federal land managers and environmentalists never culled public input for a deal over species survey requirements, a timber company told the 9th Circuit. Environmentalists had...
View ArticleAlarming Claims Against Doctorand His Colorado Family Clinic
DENVER (CN) - "Abusive, fraudulent and harmful" treatment at a clinic run by a man who bought a doctorate from an "unaccredited diploma mill" led a teenager to attempt suicide, the boy and his...
View ArticleAds Referring to Obama Deemed Electioneering
CHICAGO (CN) - Hispanic Leadership Fund advertisements cannot directly allude to the Obama administration, but they may use an audio clip of Obama's voice, a federal judge ruled. The Hispanic...
View ArticleHarris County Accused of Voter Suppression
HOUSTON (CN) - Harris County violates the Voting Rights Act by rejecting minorities' voter registration applications more often than whites' applications, LULAC claims in Federal Court. The...
View ArticleFight Over Medi-Cal Cuts Reaches the 9th Circuit
PASADENA, Calif. (CN) - Cutting California Medical Assistance Program reimbursement rates by 10 percent will hurt the poor, opponents told the 9th Circuit. Off the back of a law approved by...
View ArticleWhale Defenders Take a Beating in 9th Circuit
SEATTLE (CN) - The 9th Circuit showed no mercy at a hearing involving activists who launch high seas attacks on the Japanese whalers that allegedly invoke research to cloak their kills. The...
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