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U.S. Lawsuits Target Carnival in Italy Cruise Crash
Sep 13 2012 // Hundreds of passengers from the stricken Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia and up to 1,000 businesses on the island where it ran aground are pressing ahead with lawsuits in the U.S. against Miami-based Carnival Corp.,...
U. of California Sues Facebook, Wal-Mart, Disney Over Patents
Sep 13 2012 // A University of California patent licensee which has sued some of the biggest U.S. companies is taking on three more — Facebook Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the Walt Disney Co. Eolas Technologies Inc. and the...
Maryland Man Sued Over Travel Insurance Policy on Missing Companion
Sep 11 2012 // An American Express subsidiary is suing a Maryland man who was jailed for months in Aruba in the suspected death of his traveling companion. The subsidiary, AMEX Assurance Company, seeks to void a travel insurance policy...
Arizona School District Settles Lawsuit With Ex-School Psychologist
Sep 11 2012 // The Tucson Unified School District in Arizona has agreed to pay a former school psychologist $180,000 to settle a retaliation claim. Rose Hamway filed a civil suit in U.S. District Court in Tucson, claiming she was...
Risk Of Lawsuits Preventing Abandoned Mine Cleanup In Colorado
Sep 11 2012 // Colorado mining authorities have dug through a mountainside and reopened the dark granite shaft of an abandoned mine that turned deadly, trying to find options for dealing with one of the West’s worst environmental...
Court: Ohio Prison Nurse Can Be Sued in Death
Sep 11 2012 // A prison nurse isn’t immune from being sued over an inmate’s 2009 death following a violent seizure from alcohol withdrawals, a federal appeals court panel ruled. Nurse Jennifer McCune had sought immunity as a...
iStar Financial Settles Shareholder Lawsuit for $29 Million
Sep 10 2012 // The New York finance company iStar Financial Inc. has reached a $29 million settlement of a lawsuit accusing it of concealing the impact of deteriorating credit market conditions from investors who participated in a 2007...
Tennessee Employment Bias Suit Proceeds Under ‘Cat’s Paw’ Theory of Liability
Sep 10 2012 // A Tennessee court has allowed a man to pursue a racial discrimination lawsuit after being reprimanded for his role in a questionable workers’ compensation claim. The U.S. Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit ruled that...
49ers, NFL Sued by Fans Attacked During SF Game
Sep 10 2012 // Two San Francisco 49ers fans who were attacked during a preseason home game against the rival Oakland Raiders have sued the team, parking lot security firm and National Football League. Daniel Long and Gabriel Navarrette,...
Lawsuit Says Travel Agencies Conspired with Hotels
Sep 10 2012 // A California lawsuit claims online travel agencies like Travelocity conspired with hotels to fix room prices nationwide. The suit filed in San Francisco federal court claims the Hilton Hotels, Sheraton Hotels &...
Calif. Sues Doctor over Aggressive Billing Tactics
Sep 10 2012 // The California Attorney General’s office is suing a Los Angeles County doctor over her practice of refusing to accept lower insurance company reimbursements and instead billing patients for the full amount. The...
Texas DA Investigating State Farm Hurricane Claims
Sep 9 2012 // Texas investigators have opened a criminal probe into how State Farm handled what may turn out to be thousands of insurance claims from Gulf Coast homeowners involving damage from Hurricane Ike in 2008, officials...
Lawsuit Claims Discrimination By In-N-Out Chain
Sep 7 2012 // A lawsuit filed on behalf of two black men in Oakland claims In-N-Out Burger didn’t hire them because of their race and age. The suit filed Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court asks a judge to order the...
Anchorage To Pay $5.5M To Settle Rape Lawsuits
Sep 6 2012 // The Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska will pay more than $5.5 million to 11 women who claimed they were sexually assaulted by a police officer now serving 87 years in prison for rape, Mayor Dan Sullivan’s office...
Group Cleaning Kentucky Superfund Site Sues Past Users
Sep 6 2012 // Companies, municipalities and universities in Kentucky that contributed to what was once one of the largest hazardous waste facilities in the United States should have to pay for its cleanup, the group managing what is now...
Suit: Arizona Police Mistook Seizure, Used Taser
Sep 5 2012 // A federal lawsuit says Nogales, Arizona police wrongly used a stun gun on a disabled man after officers mistook his seizure for criminal activity. The Nogales International reported that 40-year-old Diego Lerma claims in a...
New Mexico Whistleblower Settles Lawsuit
Sep 5 2012 // The state has agreed to settle a lawsuit with a whistleblower who accused the New Mexico Department of Health of nepotism and financial irregularities. The Albuquerque Journal reported that under a settlement agreement...
Guitars With Playboy Bunny Logo Subject Of Lawsuit
Sep 4 2012 // Photos of Playboy playmates have gone from the cover of the magazine to the center of a lawsuit between two Oregon guitar makers. Houston guitar designer Stephen Marchione (MARK-ee-ohn-ee) claims he was never paid the...
Tennessee Jury Awards Family $7.8 Million in Hospital Negligence Suit
Sep 3 2012 // A Dyer County, Tenn., jury awarded $7.8 million in damages to the family of a child who suffered severe brain damage as a result of an improperly treated wound at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. The Dyersburg State...
Supreme Court to Review State v. Federal Class-Action Case Involving Insurer
Sep 3 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider the constitutionality of a legal tactic that can make it harder for companies to defend against class-action lawsuits, in a case it will review in the term that starts on...
