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How employers faced with potential False Claims Act liability may avoid
Often, depending on how far along an investigation or lawsuit is, because lawsuits brought under the False Claims Act are initially filed under seal, the company may not even know the identity of the whistleblower for some time.
Updated: 01/30/2012 06:20A
Judge: Town of Greenwich not negligent in '07 crash
A judge last week ruled for the town of Greenwich and a member of the Cos Cob Fire Police Patrol in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of two people killed in a 2007 crash with an unoccupied emergency truck on Interstate 95.
Updated: 01/30/2012 06:12A
Butamax™ Refutes Unfounded Allegations of Infringement
30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Butamax™ Advanced Biofuels, LLC, the biobutanol technology leader, responded to the latest lawsuit filed by Gevo, Inc. related to isobutanol flash fermentation technology. "Let us state emphatically, Butamax does not infringe
Updated: 01/30/2012 06:11A
Google faces lawsuit for illegal data collection
The monopolistic web giant faces a number of lawsuits from companies in the US and abroad concerning privacy and anti-trust violations. Google recently admitted to illegally collecting data in the US and Europe since 2006 while compiling its street
Updated: 01/30/2012 04:26A
Moscow authorities' dispute over trade center to be heared in February
A commercial court put off until February 29 the hearing of the Moscow Property Department's lawsuit to invalidate the Kiev Square company's ownership of 125900 square meters of floor space in the Evropeisky Trade Center, the Russian Legal Information
Updated: 01/30/2012 04:19A
Baby & Slim Implicated In Sex Assault Suit
Cash Money co-founders, Bryan "Birdman" Williams and Ronald "Slim" Williams have been implicated in lawsuit filed by a woman from College Park, GA accusing the two of bearing some responsibility for a sexual assault that took place in a studio bathroom
Updated: 01/30/2012 04:14A
The Role of the Guardian Ad Litem in Personal Injury Cases Involving Minors
Court rules do not permit a minor to pursue a personal injury lawsuit without representation by a parent or guardian. Additionally, in some cases, the court requires that the minor be represented by a guardian ad litem (GAL), or an independent person
Updated: 01/30/2012 01:28A
Former Erie firefighter's discrimination claim reaches trial
By LISA THOMPSON, Erie Times-News Jury selection begins today in US District Court in the discrimination lawsuit filed by a former Erie firefighter who lost her job after setting a small fire in a bathtub amid a suicide attempt in 2006.
Updated: 01/30/2012 12:21A
Federal Judge Denies Effort To Block Abortion Protester
Breen, of the Thomas More Society, said the government lawsuit against Scott is an overreach under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, passed in the wake of clinic sit-ins and a 1993 shooting that wounded Kansas abortion provider George
Updated: 01/30/2012 12:18A
New York Lawsuit on Who Can Petition for Primary Candidates Reaches US Supreme
On January 10, a group of voters and candidates filed a cert petition with the US Supreme Court, in the lawsuit over who may circulate nominating petitions to get candidates on New York primary ballots. New York says no one can circulate a petition to
Updated: 01/29/2012 11:35P