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New Pressure On Hospital's Insurers To Settle Reardon Cases
Reardon abused as many as 500 children in his hospital office after St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center appointed him its chief of endocrinology in 1963. He held the position for about 30 years, until two of his earliest victims, then adults,
Updated: 10/21/2011 05:57A
Court refuses appeal of Canada Line lawsuit
The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal from Vancouver clothing store owner Susan Heyes in her sixyear-old fight against the builders of a local rapidtransit rail line. The country's highest court, as is its practice,
Updated: 10/21/2011 05:54A
Gravel Pit Battle Grinds On
The issue came to a head in 2007 when the PZC issued a new permit for the gravel operation, placing numerous restrictions on the business, WFS Earth said in its lawsuit, including limiting the areas that could be excavated and the number of trucks that
Updated: 10/21/2011 05:47A
BlackBerry Faces Lawsuit Over BBX Name
BASIS eXtender is a little-known interpreter for the company's programming language and, although a lawsuit has not yet been filed, BASIS say they've given RIM until October 31 to respond to a cease and desist, requesting the BlackBerry manufacturer to
Updated: 10/21/2011 05:45A
School police sued in drunken driving death
Parents of a UNLV student killed by a drunken driver filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging negligence by the Clark County School District Police Department and some employees led to the 2009 accident. Kevin Miranda pleaded guilty to
Updated: 10/21/2011 05:43A
Extra Counsel Hired in Al Falah Lawsuit
The Al Falah Center filed a lawsuit in April stemming from an original application before the planning board to build a mosque on Mountain Top Road. The complaint was filed by the Al Falah Center against the township, township council, planning board,
Updated: 10/21/2011 05:41A
Hightstown Settles Discrimination Lawsuit
The Borough of Hightstown settled a discrimination lawsuit that was brought by a former Deputy Municipal Clerk in February 2010. The settlement calls for the Borough to pay $4000 to Leona Baylor, according to a resolution passed at
Updated: 10/21/2011 05:40A
Nigeria sues Shell for 'decades of pollution'
(File: AAP) A Nigerian tribal king filed a lawsuit in a US court seeking $1 billion from Royal Dutch Shell to compensate for decades of pollution that sickened his people and damaged their lands, his lawyer said. The suit was filed a day after the US
Updated: 10/21/2011 05:36A
RIM to face lawsuit over BBX trademark
US-based global software company Basis International has taken legal action to preserve and protect its ownership of the BBx-trademarked OS independent language, database and toolset. Research In Motion's announced launch of a BlackBerry OS named 'BBX'
Updated: 10/21/2011 05:35A
Brazil: Belo Monte Dam Case Comes to Court
A lawsuit filed in 2006 by the Federal Public Ministry of the state of Par (MPF/PA) was brought to court on October 17 at the Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region, in capital Braslia. The lawsuit questions Act 788/2005 by the National Congress,
Updated: 10/21/2011 05:33A