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Wealthy Americans Fear Costly Lawsuits
Mar 6 2012 // America’s wealthiest families increasingly worry that their wealth alone makes them a prime target for a high-stakes liability lawsuit in this uncertain time of high unemployment and tepid economic growth, according...
Supreme Court Weighs If Firms Can Be Sued Over Human Rights Abuses Abroad
Mar 6 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would hear arguments next term on whether an 18th century U.S. law can be used to sue multinational corporations or others in American courts for alleged human rights abuses...
Montana Department of Labor Loses Lawsuit Over Firing
Mar 5 2012 // A jury has awarded the former executive director of the Montana Board of Nursing $160,000 in a wrongful discharge lawsuit against the Montana Department of Labor and Industry. The Lewis and Clark County jury on Friday took...
Shell Files Pre-Emptive Offshore Drilling Lawsuit
Mar 5 2012 // Shell Oil Co. is taking the offensive against environmental groups that have put legal roadblocks in the company’s path to offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean. The Houston-based company on Wednesday sued 11 Alaska...
Three Mull Lawsuits in U.S. Against Murdoch’s News Corp.
Mar 5 2012 // Three people who believe they were targeted by a private investigator working for Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World while they were in the United States are considering suing his company in U.S. courts, a source...
Mississippi Trial to Begin in Frankel, Vatican Fraud Case
Mar 5 2012 // More than a decade after it was filed, a federal judge in Mississippi has set a tentative trial date in a lawsuit stemming from scams run by a notorious financier who looted $200 million from insurance companies and...
Court Upholds Lawsuit Against NoCal Hooters
Mar 5 2012 // A state appeals court has upheld a class-action lawsuit filed by servers at several San Francisco Bay area Hooters restaurants in Northern California. The 1st District Court of Appeal denied a request by the...
Oregon To Pay $1.5M In Torture Death Lawsuit
Mar 2 2012 // The state of Oregon has agreed to pay $1.5 million to the estate of a murdered Eugene teenager. The settlement will resolve a lawsuit alleging that negligence by state child protection workers led to Jeanette Maples’...
South Carolina Restaurant Sued for Wrongful Death
Mar 2 2012 // A renowned Charleston, S.C. restaurant has been named as a defendant in a wrongful death case. The Post and Courier of Charleston reported that a lawsuit seeking unspecified damages has been brought against the restaurant...
Court Revives Securities Case Involving Foreign vs. Domestic Transactions
Mar 2 2012 // A federal appeals court has breathed new life into a lawsuit accusing a Beverly Hills broker-dealer of defrauding nine hedge funds out of nearly $200 million through an international penny stock fraud. The 2nd U.S. Circuit...
U.S. Seeks Dismissal of Ex-CEO Greenberg’s $25B Lawsuit on AIG Takeover
Mar 2 2012 // The U.S. government has asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit relating to its 2008 takeover of American International Group that was filed by a company run by former AIG Chief Executive Maurice Greenberg, court documents...
Carriers Settle Lawsuit Vs. OC Register For $30M
Mar 1 2012 // Thousands of newspaper carriers have settled their class-action lawsuit against the Orange County Register for a total of $30 million. The carriers alleged that the Southern California newspaper’s parent company...
Fired Olympus Boss Woodford Launches Wrongful Termination Suit
Mar 1 2012 // Michael Woodford, the former Olympus CEO, on Thursday kicks off his legal battle for wrongful dismissal on the grounds of discrimination and whistleblowing, in a UK case that will throw the spotlight back on one of...
Free Speech Suit Settled in Massachusetts School Bullying Case
Feb 29 2012 // A Massachusetts man has settled a federal lawsuit that claimed his free speech rights were violated when he was removed from a public meeting where he criticized school officials’ handling of the case of a...
2 Baltimore Attorneys Sue Facebook Over Privacy
Feb 29 2012 // Two Baltimore law firms have filed a lawsuit against Facebook, arguing that the site has violated privacy laws. The Daily Record of Baltimore reported last week the law offices of William Murphy Jr. and Peter Angelos filed...
BP Seeks Settlement with Oil Spill Plaintiffs
Feb 29 2012 // BP Plc is seeking to settle a lawsuit over the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill by tapping into a $14 billion fund it set aside to compensate fishermen and businesses harmed by the disaster, lawyers familiar with the...
Corrections Department Settles Federal Lawsuit
Feb 28 2012 // A federal sex-discrimination suit has been settled between the Arizona Department of Corrections and the U.S. Department of Justice. The Arizona Republic reported the department has one month to put in place new polices...
Parents of Child Born With Cystic Fibrosis Sue
Feb 28 2012 // The parents of a child born with cystic fibrosis have filed a lawsuit against health care providers saying they would have terminated the pregnancy had they known of the genetic disorder. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle in a...
Mom Sues UC Over Son’s Overdose at UC Berkeley
Feb 27 2012 // The mother of a University of California, Berkeley student who suffered severe brain damage after a drug overdose on campus is suing the UC regents. Madelyn Bennett says they knew about rampant drug use at the residence...
Judge Awards Iphone User $850 In Throttling Case
Feb 27 2012 // When AT&T started slowing down the data service for his iPhone, Matt Spaccarelli, an unemployed truck driver and student, took the country’s largest telecommunications company to small claims court. And won. His...
