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Court Tosses Workplace Retaliation Damages Suit Against Mississippi College
May 18 2012 // A federal appeals court has ruled for Hinds Community College in a workplace retaliation case. In 2010, a Mississippi federal judge ordered the school to pay a former professor $345,020 after a federal jury found she had...
MGIC Sues Freddie Mac in Insurance Coverage Dispute
May 17 2012 // Mortgage insurer MGIC Investment Corp. has sued mortgage financier Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Finance Administration to settle a dispute over coverage limits on certain insurance policies. MGIC said on Thursday it...
For Law Firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, the Time May Have Come for Last Rites
May 17 2012 // For Dewey & LeBoeuf, the time may have come for last rites. It has laid off hundreds of employees, been hit with lawsuits for not paying its bills and continued to shed partners, including on Wednesday the last member...
Florida Blood Bank Sued Over HIV Infection Says Supply Is Safe
May 17 2012 // A Florida blood bank being sued by a patient who claims he was infected with HIV after a transfusion says its blood supply is safe. Gainesville, Fla.-based LifeSouth Community Blood Centers said in a release that every...
Missouri House Approves Bill on Suing Co-Workers
May 16 2012 // Missouri lawmakers likely will not pass any legislation moving claims related to deadly work-related diseases into the workers’ compensation system, Senate Majority Leader Tom Dempsey said. The state Legislature will...
Alabama Man Sues Florida Blood Bank Over HIV Infection
May 16 2012 // An Alabama man has filed a lawsuit against a Florida blood bank, charging that a transfusion during a coronary bypass surgery infected him with HIV. The lawsuit alleges that the contaminated blood given to Howard Midkiff...
Judge Dismisses Part of Lawsuit Over Birds Point Levee
May 15 2012 // A federal judge has dismissed a large portion of a class-action lawsuit brought by more than 140 southeast Missouri farmers whose land was damaged when Birds Point levee was intentionally breached last year. Judge Nancy B....
Utah Joins E-Book Price Fixing Lawsuit
May 15 2012 // The state of Utah has joined an antitrust lawsuit accusing publishers of fixing e-book prices. The Utah Attorney General’s Office says Utah has joined 29 other states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia in...
Louisiana Sheriff’s Office, TV Producers Sued
May 14 2012 // A Chauvin, La., woman, who claims a deputy used unnecessary violence as television cameras rolled, has filed suit against the Terrebonne Sheriff’s Office and the production company of an upcoming TV show. The suit...
Bozeman Museum Awarded $2.3M in Donation Lawsuit
May 14 2012 // A jury awarded $2.3 million to the Museum of the Rockies Inc. in a lawsuit against a Bozeman-area developer who failed to pay a promised endowment and research gift after using the museum and paleontologist Jack Horner in...
Iditarod Champ Sues Over Nearly Severed Finger
May 14 2012 // A former Iditarod champion who was forced to drop out of last year’s dog-sled race when he nearly severed his index finger is suing the Oregon company that made his knife and the sporting goods store that sold it to...
New York Judge Orders Anonymous Blogger into Court Over Business Reports
May 14 2012 // A New York judge has ordered an anonymous blogger to appear in court next week over accusations that the blog Alfredlittle.com wrote false reports about a Chinese company to drive down the stock. The blogger was served...
Schwab Loses Bid to Halt Regulatory Discipline Over Right to Sue
May 13 2012 // A federal court judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit by Charles Schwab Corp. that sought to stop its regulator from bringing a disciplinary case against the company for trying to take away customers’ rights to sue it...
Law Firm Dewey & LeBoeuf Fires 450 People; Laid-Off Worker Files Suit
May 11 2012 // Dewey & LeBoeuf has terminated about 450 people at its New York office effective today, May 11, according to a lawsuit filed by an employee who complained the law firm failed to give her adequate notice. The employees...
Florida Supreme Court Hears Class Action Arbitration Argument
May 11 2012 // A pay day loan company’s lawyer argued this week that the Florida Supreme Court must uphold a contract provision prohibiting customers from banding together in class action arbitration cases against the firm because...
Prison Inmates Sues Over Broken Toe, Seeking $2.2M
May 10 2012 // A Montana State Prison inmate is suing five prison employees for the physical and mental trauma he says he suffered after getting his foot caught in a grain auger at the prison dairy. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported...
Honda Wins Reversal of Small Claims MPG Judgment
May 10 2012 // Honda Motor Co. has won the reversal of a $9,867 small-claims judgment awarded to an owner who claimed the Japanese automaker fraudulently overstated the fuel economy of her Civic hybrid car. The decision by California...
Famed Dinosaur Expert Testifies In Montana Lawsuit
May 8 2012 // A dinosaur expert who was an adviser for the “Jurassic Park” films testified in a lawsuit between his employer and a developer whose plan to use the paleontologist’s fame to launch a luxury development...
Billings Settles Lawsuit Over Chase, Fatal Crash
May 8 2012 // The family of a Billings, Mont. nurse who was killed by a drunken driver while he was fleeing police has settled its wrongful death lawsuit against the city and Yellowstone County for $400,000. Billings attorney Chris...
Women Allege Sexual Bias, Harassment at Kentucky’s Maker’s Mark
May 8 2012 // Five women are suing Maker’s Mark Distillery Inc. in federal court, claiming discrimination and sexual harassment. All of the women have worked on the bottling line, dipping the bottles of bourbon whiskey in red...
