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General Mills fruit snacks more like "candy": lawsuit
(Reuters) - Ads for General Mills fruit snacks mislead customers into thinking products like its Fruit Roll-Ups are healthy, when they actually lack significant amounts of real, natural fruit, according to a new lawsuit. The proposed class action
Updated: 10/14/2011 05:32P
Windstream agrees to settle class action suit over Paetec merger
All parties including Paetec and officers of Windstream and Paetec to be released from liability and for the lawsuit, filed in a Delaware state court, to be dismissed without the possibility of the complaint being refiled. “Windstream, Paetec and the
Updated: 10/14/2011 05:31P
California School District Racial Profiled Latino Students, ACLU Says
The Los Angeles police departments and Los Angeles County Probation Department were also named in the lawsuit. The students were searched and questioned by police about possible gang affiliations. The ACLU says the students weren't doing anything
Updated: 10/14/2011 05:30P
D&P supporters rally funds for Fr. Gravel in lawsuit against LifeSiteNews
This suggestion is supported by a March 2nd letter from Fr. Gravel soliciting donations for his lawsuit. In it, he laments the “injustice” LifeSiteNews levied against Development & Peace, and writes, “If I win this lawsuit, the amassed donations will
Updated: 10/14/2011 05:30P
Former Judge Joyce sues insurers he was convicted of defrauding
A federal jury listened to the evidence and found that former state Superior Court Judge Michael T. Joyce cheated two insurance companies out of $440000 when he claimed a car accident left him debilitated.
Updated: 10/14/2011 05:30P
City of Norwalk sued for sexual harassment, Hamilton and Haselkamp named as
NORWALK -- Oswald S. Lewis, the city's former director of management and budgets, has filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging that his former boss, Director of Finance Thomas S. Hamilton, sexually harassed him before
Updated: 10/14/2011 05:30P
Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News
Jim Wilson/The New York Times Jeanene Harlick won a lawsuit against her insurance provider, forcing it to pay for residential treatment for her anorexia. In a major victory to mental health advocates, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in August
Updated: 10/14/2011 05:27P
Opus Dei-Affiliated Bishop Indicted For Failure To Report Suspected Child Abuse
The Kansas City Star says, "In 2008, the lawsuit alleges, Ratigan took photographs and visual images of the girl in her bathing suit, focusing on her vaginal area and buttocks. Around 2009, Ratigan photographed the girl while she was sleeping and fully
Updated: 10/14/2011 05:27P
Jury Finds Costco Sold Counterfeit Hair Irons
The award stems from a 2009 lawsuit filed in a Houston state district court charging Costco with violating the Lanhm Act, which prohibits the selling of counterfeit, non-genuine goods. After nearly two years of litigation, the jury agreed and found
Updated: 10/14/2011 05:26P
Top 5: '[He] spent 20 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit'
The Top 5 law stories of the week also includes advice on how to argue before the state's top court, but it's a lawsuit filed by a man who spent 20 years in prison for a crime that he didn't commit that takes the top spot. James Owens' attorneys filed
Updated: 10/14/2011 05:24P