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Delaware lawsuit accuses nationwide electronic mortgage registry of deceptive
Officials claim the company has damaged the integrity of Delaware's land records system and lead to unlawful foreclosure practices. MERS was set up by the banking industry to rapidly package and sell mortgages as securities without recording each
Updated: 10/27/2011 01:07P
Kevorkian estate plans to sell disputed paintings
(AP) - The estate of Dr. Jack Kevorkian says it intends to proceed with plans to auction 17 paintings by the assisted-suicide advocate despite a legal battle over the art's ownership.
Updated: 10/27/2011 12:45P
Julius Erving Says Dr. J Auction Wasn't Created to Pay Off Debt
The auction, which will occur next month, comes shortly after a lawsuit was filed against the basketball legend saying that he owed more than $200000 for an unpaid loan. But Dr. J says that it's just a coincidence and that the auction wasn't created to
Updated: 10/27/2011 12:40P
Ga. seeks to overturn Voting Rights Act
The state made the request in a lawsuit filed earlier this month seeking approval of maps redrawing state legislative and congressional boundaries. The filing made by Attorney General Sam Olens asked the judges to strike down Section 5 of the Voting
Updated: 10/27/2011 12:39P
Michael Beasley Lawsuit: Improper Benefits Commonplace, Say Experts
By IBTimes Staff Reporter | October 27, 2011 12:37 PM EDT A new lawsuit by NBA player Michael Beasley alleges that an agent offered him improper benefits while he played college basketball at Kansas State. The lawsuit, first reported on by The
Updated: 10/27/2011 12:38P
Lawsuits filed in detention-center sex case
In recent weeks, one of the accused filed a pair of lawsuits seeking reinstatement. Tiffany Blakemore, 37, was indicted for obstruction of justice in 2009, but the charge was later dropped. One lawsuit filed at the Terrebonne Courthouse on Blakemore's
Updated: 10/27/2011 12:38P
CA: Motion to Enforce Choice of Law Provision After 19 Months of Litigation
A lender could not invoke a forum selection clause seeking to transfer a lawsuit to Illinois after the action had been litigated for the course of 19 months in California, the Court of Appeal for this district ruled
Updated: 10/27/2011 12:38P
Ruling Could Impact Taser Lawsuit
A recent ruling by a federal appeals court in two stun-gun lawsuits is likely to be raised in a similar suit by the family of Allen Kephart, who died last May in Rimforest after being shot repeatedly by sheriff's deputies' Taser guns, sources say.
Updated: 10/27/2011 12:35P
RIM faces lawsuits over BlackBerry BBM outage
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) faces lawsuits in the US and Canada, with users claiming compensation for the recent outage on its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and other services. The three-day outage in RIM's BlackBerry networks earlier this
Updated: 10/27/2011 12:32P
Home News RIM Hit With Lawsuits Over BlackBerry Services Outage
By CIOinsight RIM is beginning to face lawsuits over the BlackBerry services outage that hit users across the globe earlier in October. Research In Motion dealt with its global outage that left some BlackBerry users without services for days.
Updated: 10/27/2011 12:31P