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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...
Insurer Sues Montana Over Asbestos Settlement
Feb 27 2012 // A Nebraska insurance company has filed a lawsuit against the state of Montana to recover $16 million that was used primarily to cover a sweeping financial settlement of asbestos-related claims from residents of the...
Maine Wreath-Making Firm Awarded $1M in Lawsuit Against L.L. Bean
Feb 27 2012 // A Maine wreath-making company has won a nearly $1 million judgment in a legal dispute with L.L. Bean over the production of wreaths and other products for the 2008 holiday season. A Maine Business and Consumer Court judge...
West Virginia Judge OKs Settlement in Agent Orange Suit
Feb 27 2012 // A West Virginia judge has approved a settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by residents who say that chemical manufacturer Monsanto burned dioxin wastes, polluting the area with unsafe levels of the chemical. The...
Trial Date Set for Insurance Fraud with Ties to Frankel, Vatican
Feb 27 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...
BP Oil Spill Trial Delayed for Settlement Talks
Feb 26 2012 // The trial to decide who should pay for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been delayed by a week to allow BP Plc to try to cut a deal with tens of thousands of businesses and individuals affected by the disaster. Less...
Lawsuit Filed Over Lake County Sheriff’s Dispute in Montana
Feb 24 2012 // Five current or former members of the Lake County sheriff’s office in Montana have filed a lawsuit against the sheriff and others claiming they were retaliated against over efforts to expose corruption. The suit...
Lawsuit Filed in Iowa Over Tainted Sprouts
Feb 24 2012 // An Iowa woman sickened by eating tainted sprouts filed a lawsuit against sandwich chain Jimmy John’s, the first stemming from a recent outbreak of a foodborne illness linked to the restaurant. Heather Tuttle, 27,...
Louisiana Citizens Board Offers $103M to Settle Lawsuit
Feb 24 2012 // Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort is offering nearly $103 million to settle disputes over its handling of claims after hurricanes Katrina and Rita more than six years ago. The governing board of the...
Bankers and Their Insurers Escape Big Penalties in FDIC Prosecutions
Feb 24 2012 // Like many banks engulfed by the mortgage crisis, First National Bank of Nevada specialized in risky home loans that didn’t require borrowers to prove their incomes. When the housing bubble burst, First National got...
Lawsuit Says Ambulance Firm Dissected Man’s Brain
Feb 23 2012 // A Northern California coroner is being sued by the parents of a man whose brain was given to an ambulance company for dissection. The New York couple’s 30-year-old son was killed in a 2008 car crash. The San...
One-Armed Man Sues Starbucks For Not Hiring Him
Feb 23 2012 // A man who was born with half a left arm is suing Starbucks for failing to hire him as a barista. Eli Pierre sued the company in San Diego, Calif. two weeks ago for unspecified damages. Pierre says that during a Feb. 1...
Virginia Residents File $2B Lawsuit Over Toxic Fly Ash
Feb 23 2012 // A group of Chesapeake residents has filed a $2 billion lawsuit against the owners of Battlefield Golf Club at Centreville and Dominion Virginia Power, claiming that the toxic fly ash on which the course was built...
Pennsylvania Christian College Sues Over Birth Control Regs
Feb 22 2012 // A Christian college in western Pennsylvania has sued the federal government saying regulations that require employers to offer birth control coverage that includes drugs that abort fertilized embryos are “directly at...
Ex-NFL Players in Louisiana Sue League Over Concussions
Feb 22 2012 // Nearly a dozen former National Football League players living in Louisiana have sued the NFL, the latest players to accuse the league of failing to protect players from the risks associated with concussions. Several former...
La. Settles Federal Lawsuit Over Sexual Harassment
Feb 21 2012 // The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections agreed last week to modify its sexual harassment policies and training as part of a settlement with the Justice Department, which accused the state department of...
Court Upholds Lawsuit Against Northern California Hooters
Feb 21 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...
5 States May Intervene in California Honda Small Claims Case
Feb 21 2012 // A judge last week granted California and four other states more time to consider objecting to a class-action settlement between Honda Motor Co. and car owners over inflated fuel-efficiency claims about the...
Cruise Ship Industry Leaves Crash Victims Little Hope for Recovery
Feb 21 2012 // When Walter Henry Alderfer learned last month about the Costa Concordia shipwreck off Italy, it brought back bad memories. In April 2007, he, his wife and his daughter were aboard the Sea Diamond cruise ship when it struck...
$20M Verdict Upheld in Massachusetts Pool Slide Lawsuit
Feb 20 2012 // A Massachusetts judge has upheld a $20 million jury award to the family of a Colorado woman who died after a Toys `R Us inflatable pool slide partially collapsed. In October, a jury ordered Toys “R Us to pay the...
