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(AP) - Lawyers for a US citizen who was detained for nearly four years as an "enemy combatant" asked a federal appeals court to reinstate a lawsuit against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other government officials.
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:29P
Lawsuit Surrounding Salary Of Cal Poly President Dismissed
San Luis Obispo, CA -- A lawsuit surrounding the salary of Cal Poly's President Jeffrey Armstrong was dismissed late yesterday morning in Los Angeles. Armstrong's compensation, approved by CSU trustees, includes $350000 a year; an additional $30000 is
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:28P
RIM facing class action suit over BlackBerry outage
Research In Motion Ltd. is facing the prospect of a class action lawsuit brought on by consumers who were left frustrated by the BlackBerry maker's service outage earlier this month.
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:28P
Mass. sues BNY Mellon over trading fees
Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin Wednesday filed a civil lawsuit against Bank of New York Mellon Corp., alleging that the banking giant defrauded the Massachusetts state pension fund on foreign-exchange trading fees over a decade,
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:27P
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These organizations have pressed hundreds of lawsuits against thousands of defendants over the past 20 years, and business is booming now more than ever. Bessen wanted to know just how big the problem was, and according to a recent study he co-authored
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:27P
Cheat Sheet: What's Happened to the Big Players in the Financial Crisis
The Office of Thrift Supervision, which was tasked with overseeing savings and loan banks, also helped to scale back their own regulatory powers in the years before the financial crisis. In 2003 James Gilleran and John Reich, then heads of the OTS and
Updated: 10/26/2011 03:07P
California Sues 3 Firms Over 'Greenwashing' Of Plastic Bottles
California's attorney general filed a lawsuit Wednesday against three companies, saying they falsely claimed that the plastic bottles containing their products were biodegradable. Attorney General Kamala Harris said the companies ran afoul of a state
Updated: 10/26/2011 02:52P
Proposed Puerto Rico pipeline could face lawsuit
AP 2:46 PM Wednesday, October 26, 2011 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Eleven individuals and environmental groups have served notice on the US Army Corps of Engineers that they will sue to block construction of a proposed natural gas pipeline in Puerto Rico.
Updated: 10/26/2011 02:52P
CWB suing to block Tories' grain marketing bill
The federal government's bill to deregulate Prairie wheat and barley marketing is now the target of a second lawsuit questioning the bill's legitimacy. Where a previous pre-emptive suit by supporters of the Canadian Wheat Board had aimed to derail the
Updated: 10/26/2011 02:51P
PETA sues SeaWorld for keeping Orcas as 'slaves'
SAN DIEGO -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plan to file a lawsuit Wednesday that seeks to extend constitutional rights to captive whales, saying performers such as SeaWorld's Shamu are essentially slaves. The lawsuit -- the first seeking
Updated: 10/26/2011 02:51P
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