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Suit challenges law on paying into pensions
TALLAHASSEE -- A lawsuit challenging the new state law making public employees pay 3 percent of their salaries for their retirement plan could punch an $860 million hole in Florida's budget and take some $600 million away from
Updated: 11/04/2011 06:09A
Tony, the truck stop tiger, to make his exit
Judge Michael Caldwell has ruled in favor of the Animal Legal Defense Fund in its lawsuit to free Tony from the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete. Judge Caldwell agreed with ALDF's argument that the permit that allows the truck stop to keep Tony was
Updated: 11/04/2011 06:09A
NJ to ask judge to dismiss lawsuit on gay marriage today
TRENTON - New Jersey's Attorney General's Office is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to force the state to recognize gay marriage. Today's hearing in Trenton will be the first over a lawsuit filed in June by seven couples and many of their
Updated: 11/04/2011 06:07A
Teen bitten by a police dog settles lawsuit for $210000
AP HUDSON, Wis. — A Wisconsin teen who sued after he was bitten by a Police dog has settled the case for $210000. Seventeen-year-old Nate Livermore suffered permanent damage to his arm two years ago when the dog bit him as he fled from a home in Hudson
Updated: 11/04/2011 06:06A
Ellison wins 'In Time' lawsuit — but only asks for credit to be given
So many were the similarities, and so obvious, that Ellison, whose work was the credited (after an earlier lawsuit) source material for James Cameron's “Terminator” movies, sued the filmmakers and the studio, sight unseen. Readers, as I pointed out a
Updated: 11/04/2011 06:05A
Court of Appeal rules in Tulare County lunches case
But lawyers for both sides disagreed on the reasons the three 5th District Court of Appeal justices denied the appeal. "I think the board's position was vindicated," said County Counsel Kathleen Bales-Lange. "The court ruled that they, the plaintiffs,
Updated: 11/04/2011 06:05A
Teen settles lawsuit over police dog bite
HUDSON, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin teen who sued after he was bitten by a police dog has settled the case for $210000. Seventeen-year-old Nate Livermore suffered permanent damage to his arm two years ago when the dog bit him as he fled from a home in
Updated: 11/04/2011 06:05A
Family of Crestline woman who died in Black Fork crash sues
They filed a lawsuit Oct. 26 in Richland County Common Pleas Court. Butzer Trucking LLC, of Orrville, and Ronald A. Wilson, of Saint Marys, W.Va., are defendants. The lawsuit seeks $25000 or more in damages, saying an exact amount could not be
Updated: 11/04/2011 06:05A
BofA, Facebook, Morgan Stanley, Galleon, BP in Court News
Ceglia claims that, sometime after the lawsuit was filed, Zuckerberg deleted some e-mails relating to the case from his Harvard University account. Orin Snyder, a lawyer for Palo Alto, California-based Facebook, called the claim “delusional.
Updated: 11/04/2011 06:04A
Family of crash victim sues
They filed a lawsuit Oct. 26 in Richland County Common Pleas Court. Butzer Trucking LLC, of Orrville, and Ronald A. Wilson, of Saint Marys, W.Va., are defendants. The lawsuit seeks $25000 or more in damages, saying an exact amount could not be
Updated: 11/04/2011 06:03A