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Kadner: Township school board may sue over new law
But township school board member Julienne Mallory, who supported Bertrand, was named in the lawsuit and eventually received $69170 from the board for her legal defense. The township school board exists primarily to supervise the activities of a school
Updated: 01/05/2012 10:22P
Judge dismisses lawsuit in Italian kidnapping case
AP National News Video More>> WASHINGTON (AP) - A judge on Thursday threw out a former State Department official's lawsuit demanding diplomatic immunity against charges she helped kidnap a terrorism suspect in Italy but said the US government's
Updated: 01/05/2012 10:22P
Gregoire to bypass AG, seek ruling on tax voting
Some Democratic lawmakers have signed on to a lawsuit filed this summer that argues the law is unconstitutional because it prevents the state from meeting its obligation to schools. Initiative promoter Tim Eyman says the lawsuit pokes a finger in the
Updated: 01/05/2012 10:17P
B.C. Mountie files suit over on-the-job sex abuse
Karen Katz has filed a lawsuit in BC Supreme Court describing several incidents of abuse. She said that on two occasions in 2006, while working alone with Const. Baldev Singh Bamra - also known as David Bamra - the male officer aggressively slammed his
Updated: 01/05/2012 10:16P
Judge dismisses former State Department official's lawsuit in Italian
But an Italian court convicted De Sousa and sentenced her to five years in prison. She has complained that the case makes it impossible for her to see her family in India because she risks extradition to Italy if she leaves the United States.
Updated: 01/05/2012 10:14P
Retired racehorses' group sues its biggest donor's executor in NYC amid fight
The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation's lawsuit says its leaders “have acted at all times in the best interest of the TRF and the herd” of horses. While the foundation did clear its horses out of two farms last year, the lawsuit says the Mellon
Updated: 01/05/2012 10:13P
Calif. Supreme Court hears arguments in molestation cases
The court is considering a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Church by six brothers who were in their 40s when they said they first discovered they were suffering the effects of abuse by a priest decades earlier. They argued that the law gives victims
Updated: 01/05/2012 10:10P
Taiwan notebook manufacturer launches surprise law suit against chipmaker AMD
Taiwan's Quanta Computer has filed a lawsuit against US chipgiant Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) over an alleged breach of contract, according to media reports. Quanta, the world's largest contract manufacturer of notebook computers claimed that AMD and
Updated: 01/05/2012 10:09P
Pacific Biosciences gets sued – and that's just business as usual
Biotechnology lawyers seem unsurprised by a class-action lawsuit filed last month against Pacific Biosciences, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based gene sequencing technology company whose fortunes have declined dramatically over the past year.
Updated: 01/05/2012 10:09P
Who Owns Your Twitter Account, You or Your Boss?
The account didn't become an issue, it seems, until Kravitz sued the company over back pay last spring, and Phonedog responded with a lawsuit of its own. Now the dispute has put an unprecedented question in front of the courts: When dealing with social
Updated: 01/05/2012 10:09P