An administrative law judge and his husband sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection for $3 million, claiming an officer asked to see their marriage certificate at the border, and assaulted them when they complained.
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By MILT POLICZER  It's been a good public relations week for Harvard Law School. |
A girlfriend-killing cop who was barred from using his desired defense after the law changed does not have a due process case, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
A woman died on a courthouse floor because Alabama sheriff's deputies refused to give her her medicine - after arresting her for an old traffic ticket, the woman's daughter claims in court. African American-dominated Compton, its police and school district subject Latino children to "unlawful arrest, excessive force, racial profiling and racial discrimination," five families claim in a federal class action.
Chicago's plan to turn what remains of the infamous Cabrini-Green housing project into mixed-income housing will force families to move to poor, segregated neighborhoods, residents claim in court.
Michigan unconstitutionally took private property by slashing wages and benefits for Flint city workers, the AFSCME Local 1600 et al. claim in Federal Court. Attica prison guard Nathan Sorrell beat an inmate and forced him to give oral sex to co-defendant food services worker Joseph Krauss, inmate Gotfried Jean claims in Federal Court. Ralph Metcalf claims Ludacris (Christopher Bridges), Trey Songz (Tremaine Neverson) et al. swiped his tune "Sex Room," in Federal Court. Overpaid directors at Actavis rejected Mylan's $15 billion offer to buy Actavis for $120 a share in a cash and stock deal, shareholders claim in Clark County Court. |
Northwest Airlines persuaded the Supreme Court on Monday to consider tossing claims that it booted a rabbi from its frequent-flier program for complaining too much. A judge who let his political and social connections slide in traffic court cannot enjoin his unpaid suspension by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, a federal judge ruled. A woman whose vaccination challenge spurred a minor reform of federal law may have a case for attorneys' fees, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. The "windfall tax" levied against a British utility partly owned by a U.S. company is eligible for a foreign tax credit, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether town officials from upstate New York improperly favored Christianity by starting meetings with a short prayer. The employees of private contractors working for public companies can continue their fight for federal whistle-blower protections, the Supreme Court said Monday Parents and D.C. neighborhood groups have no hope of keeping open 15 schools suffering from increasingly anemic enrollment, a federal judge ruled. The D.C. Circuit unsealed a ruling allowing prosecutors to review millions of pages of records seized from a businessman under investigation in a criminal probe of D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 campaign. A federal judge slapped Wells Fargo with a $203 million restitution order and a new injunction in a class action over "high-to-low" debit posting. The children of a divorcing couple were properly ordered to be returned from New York to Canada for a custody determination, the 2nd Circuit ruled. In a sexual harassment suit against Paula Deen and her brother, a magistrate judge unsealed inappropriate Tweets about the case posted by plaintiff counsel. Federal prosecutors demanded an injunction Friday against a Brooklyn company that has "a history of processing fishery products under insanitary conditions, with inadequate safety procedures." |
A hospital treating an inmate who faked a seizure may be liable for letting him escape and murder a New Jersey woman, a federal judge ruled. Deference was properly afforded over the interpretation reached by Federal Communications Commission over an ambiguous statute concerning its jurisdictional scope, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. Pfizer faces 26 claims of wrongful death or heart defects in babies whose pregnant mothers took its anti-depressant Effexor, 25 in Manhattan Federal and one in San Diego Superior Court. Model Chelsea Gilligan claims Prom Girl LLC promised her $1,500 a day for seven days work, plus 20% to her agent, but hasn't paid her Dime One, in Superior Court.
Anthony Kazalonis died at a National Softball Association tournament with an outfield fence less than 38 inches tall and a paved street within 4½ feet of it; he jumped for a fly ball, flipped over the fence and hit his head on the pavement, his family claims in Ocean County Court. General Motors makes defective Chevrolet Cruzes whose radiators leak antifreeze, filling the passenger compartment with fumes, a class action claims in Federal Court.
Graphics Properties Holdings claims Acer, Asus, Panasonic, Toshiba and Vizio each violate one or two graphics patents, in five federal complaints. |
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Parents who spanked their teenage daughter with a rod for sexting a boyfriend claim in court that social workers tried to force the girl to strip naked and be photographed, then chased the family cross-country when she refused. 
A Londoner scuttled a Sotheby's auction of a signed first edition of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest," with perfectly spurious claims that the book had been stolen from his mother, a New Yorker claims in court. 
A federal sheep experiment in Idaho threatens the teetering population of Yellowstone grizzly bears, environmentalists claim in court. 
A doctor who's a Pentecostal minister was sentenced Friday to 14 years in prison for taking $1.2 million from patients for a bogus cancer cure - acts that prosecutors called "despicable, cruel and heinous."
Plans for a Scotland wind farm near a site Donald Trump is eyeing for a golf course has the bloviating billionaire huffing and puffing in the U.K.'s Daily Mail.
