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Tennessee Meningitis Patient Sues Massachusetts Pharmacy
Oct 17 2012 // A Hendersonville woman sickened by fungal meningitis after receiving a steroid injection for back pain is suing the pharmacy that supplied the drug. Janet Russell and her husband, Robert Russell, sued the New England...
California Labor Commissioner Files $1.6 Million Suit Seeking Wages for Ag Workers
Oct 16 2012 // California Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su filed a $1.6 million lawsuit in Monterey County Superior Court on Tuesday against a Greenfield farm labor contractor, Salvador Zavala Chavez, dba Zavala Farms, for multiple...
Missouri Couple Who Won $20M in Popcorn Suit Going Bankrupt
Oct 16 2012 // A southwest Missouri couple who won a $20 million verdict from the makers of a butter flavoring used at a popcorn plant have filed for bankruptcy. The Joplin Globe reports Eric and Cassandra Peoples of Carthage also are...
Top 25 Workplace Harassment, Bias Settlements
Oct 16 2012 // In honor of National Boss Day, eBossWatch, which enables people to anonymously rate their bosses and evaluate potential employers, has released a study on workplace harassment and discrimination charges that is says are...
Energy Fuels Settles With 2 in Colorado Uranium Mill Suit
Oct 16 2012 // Energy Fuels has reached a settlement with Telluride and San Miguel County in a Colorado lawsuit aimed at halting construction of the company’s proposed Pinon Ridge mill. The Daily Sentinel reported the settlement...
Civil Liberties Group Suing Morgan Stanley Over Mortgages
Oct 15 2012 // The American Civil Liberties Union is filing what it says is the first lawsuit against an investment bank, Morgan Stanley, alleging discrimination for packaging subprime mortgage loans into securities. The ACLU and other...
Banks Say Settlements Aren’t Slowing Financial Crisis Liability Suits
Oct 15 2012 // As U.S. authorities seek to make Wall Street pay for its role in triggering the financial crisis more than four years ago, banks are starting to fight back, frustrated that they are being asked to pay more than once for...
Murdoch May Sue Lance Armstrong to Recover Past Libel Settlement
Oct 15 2012 // London’s Sunday Times said it may take legal action against cyclist Lance Armstrong, including pursuing him for alleged fraud over a libel settlement, in the wake of the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s...
Activists Plan to Sue Massachusetts Nuclear Plant Owner
Oct 12 2012 // Massachusetts activists have announced plans to sue the owners of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station for what they say is the continuous pollution of Cape Cod Bay over the last 16 years. The three activists, represented by...
Fired Employee Sues School District In Oregon
Oct 12 2012 // The former business services manager for the Central Point School District in Oregon has filed a $1.4 million lawsuit against the district, alleging she was wrongfully fired. Vicki Robinson’s court documents state...
Nationwide to Settle Harleysville Policyholder Class Action for $26M
Oct 12 2012 // Nationwide has agreed to settle litigation related to the merger with Harleysville Insurance. The $26 million settlement relates to In re Harleysville Mutual, a consolidated class action and derivative suit related to the...
Business Groups Sue SEC Over Dodd-Frank Anti-Bribery Rule
Oct 12 2012 // Four business groups on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s new rule requiring oil, mining and gas companies to disclose payments they make to foreign governments. The...
2 Women File Federal Discrimination Suit Against NE Kansas DA
Oct 11 2012 // Two former employees have filed a federal lawsuit against Shawnee County, Kansas, District Attorney Chad Taylor alleging they were wrongfully terminated for raising issues about race and gender discrimination. The Topeka...
‘Pawn Stars’ Sued By Former Manager In Las Vegas
Oct 11 2012 // The owners of a business featured in the cable television show “Pawn Stars” and the network that handles the show are being sued in Nevada state court by a Las Vegas promoter who claims he was wrongly fired in...
Autistic Teen Sues Southern California School District
Oct 11 2012 // An autistic teenager who was dragged from class and handcuffed has sued the Irvine Unified School District in Southern California. The Orange County Register says the federal suit claims excessive force was used on Adam...
U.S. Sues Wells Fargo in Civil Mortgage FIRREA Fraud Case
Oct 10 2012 // The U.S. government filed a civil mortgage fraud lawsuit on Tuesday against Wells Fargo & Co, the latest legal volley against big banks for their lending during the housing boom. The complaint, brought by the U.S....
Exxon Hit With New Lawsuit Over Yellowstone Spill
Oct 9 2012 // More than a dozen eastern Montana landowners have filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp. claiming the company ignored warnings before a pipeline break that spilled an estimated 1,500 barrels of crude oil into the...
N.M. Private Security Co. Target Of Myriad Lawsuits
Oct 9 2012 // The country’s largest provider of private federal court house security officers recently paid a $1.9 million fine to the federal government to settle allegations that some of its guards fudged results of gun-range...
Court Rejects Missouri AG’s Health Care Lawsuit
Oct 8 2012 // A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder’s lawsuit challenging the federal health care law. The Kansas City Star reported that a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit...
Kansas Court Upholds Limits on Damages in Lawsuits
Oct 8 2012 // Kansas will continue to limit compensation for pain and suffering to $250,000 in personal injury lawsuits following a state Supreme Court ruling Friday in the case of a woman whose doctor removed the wrong ovary from her...
