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Plaintiffs in NCAA lawsuit seek ESPN cooperation
Attorneys for a group of former college players suing the NCAA over use of their likenesses in commercials, video games and other mediums filed a motion Wednesday to compel ESPN to comply with subpoenas in the plaintiffs' discovery process.
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:39P
UNI president says regents had no role in decision
Barrett had been on track for tenure until a former high school student in Missouri filed a sex abuse lawsuit. That lawsuit was dismissed, but not before UNI re-examined informal complaints about Barrett lodged years earlier. 1 of those complaints was
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:39P
Bergen County fund sues Wyeth over generic drugs
The Bergen Municipal Employee Benefits Fund filed an antitrust lawsuit Thursday, seeking class-action status in US District Court in Trenton against pharmaceutical giant Wyeth, Inc., which is based in Madison. The 79-page complaint contends that Wyeth
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:39P
Mo. judge declares mistrial in tobacco lawsuit
According to a 70-page disposition, the Court denied the company's petition for leave to appeal. Garnick said last month the high court's decision simply means that the plaintiffs are allowed to present their petition to the trial court.
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:38P
Judge: No punitive damages for Manny Pacquiao in lawsuit filed by RBM Group
(AP Photo/Chris Carlson) LOS ANGELES - A judge today trimmed a fraud claim from a lawsuit, alleging that Manny Pacquiao broke a promise to deliver songs to a company that hired him, eliminating the chance the boxer will have to pay punitive damages.
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:38P
Can Fraud Be Immunized by Giving the Defrauder Certain Governmental Powers
In 2008, my brokerage firm, Benchmark Financial Services, Inc. filed a class action lawsuit against FINRA on behalf of all FINRA-member firms alleging that FINRA had issued a false and misleading proxy statement to its members in connection with the
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:38P
Lawyer asks for rehearing in Spence estate case
Kenneth Wingate's attorneys filed their notice Tuesday requesting the justices rehear the case. The Supreme Court ruled Oct. 17 that a trial court should decide if Wingate acted in the best interest of Deborah Spence as she dealt with her late
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:33P
Class action suit proposed against RIM after outage
MONTREAL — BlackBerry users still fuming over a service outage earlier this month could be part of a proposed class-action lawsuit seeking refunds for the downtime. Montreal-based law firm the Consumer Law Group Inc. says it has filed a nationwide
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:31P
BC-US--Plastic Bottle Lawsuit, 2nd Ld-Writethru,532
Companies sued for calling bottles biodegradable Eds: Updates with quotes, background and byline. By NOAKI SCHWARTZ Associated Press consumers by marketing plastic water bottles as biodegradable. less than five years, leaving behind no harmful
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:30P
Cleveland County commissioners file lawsuit against MERS
By James S. Tyree The Norman Transcript NORMAN — Cleveland County commissioners have filed a class action lawsuit against a mortgage registration system and finance corporations that used it, claiming the companies illegally avoided the filing of
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:30P