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  • Court Overturns $101M Tax Refund To Texaco

    Court Overturns $101M Tax Refund To Texaco

    Recent Cases 06/17/2008

    The 9th Circuit rejected Texaco's bid for a $101 million tax refund on the $1.25 billion settlement it paid the government for selling oil and gas above the price ceilings set by federal regulations. The judges reversed judgment for Texaco, now a sub...

  • Court OK's Discrimination Suit Against Restaurant

    Court OK's Discrimination Suit Against Restaurant

    Recent Cases 06/12/2008

    A California appeals court reinstated the discrimination claims of a disabled customer who was ridiculed and denied service at a restaurant. Ron Wilson followed his occasional visits to Murillo's Mexican Food with letters to owner Frances Murillo, su...

  • Shareholders Sue Baker Hughes For Bribery

    Shareholders Sue Baker Hughes For Bribery

    Recent Cases 06/09/2008

    Directors of Baker Hughes, worldwide oil services, failed to stop bribing foreign officials despite a court order to do so, shareholders claim in Federal Court. Shareholders say the "Code of Conduct" the company instituted in 2002, after the SEC sued...

  • Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon Can't Block Movie

    Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon Can't Block Movie

    Recent Cases 06/03/2008

    A federal judge has denied Yoko Ono's and Sean Lennon's request that producers of the movie, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" be prohibited from distributing it because it contains 15 seconds of the John Lennon tune, "Imagine." U.S. District Judge...

  • Fire Paramedics In Philly Win Overtime Pay Appeal

    Fire Paramedics In Philly Win Overtime Pay Appeal

    Recent Cases 06/02/2008

    More than 300 paramedics for the Philadelphia Fire Department won the right to receive overtime pay in a 3rd Circuit ruling. The court voted 2-1 to reject the city's argument that fire service paramedics fall under an exemption from Fair Labor Standa...

  • Lawyer Says Cook County Clerk Defamed Him

    Lawyer Says Cook County Clerk Defamed Him

    Recent Cases 05/28/2008

    An attorney claims the Cook County Clerk defamed him to TV news to retaliate for his informing another news station that the clerk had allegedly "confessed to using court funds to acquire three luxury SUVs to chauffeur her to the office and home agai...

  • Shareholder Class Action

    Shareholder Class Action

    Recent Cases 05/23/2008

    Shareholders sued Calpine Corp. and its directors, claiming they are selling Calpine too cheaply to NRG Energy, for $23 a share, or $9.6 billion, a 6.7% premium over market price, in Harris County Court, Houston.      Shareholders clai...

  • Court Says Cop's Criticism Isn't Protected Speech

    Court Says Cop's Criticism Isn't Protected Speech

    Recent Cases 05/22/2008

    An Illinois State Police officer was not wrongfully transferred for accusing his superiors of sabotaging his investigation of a cold-case murder, the 7th Circuit ruled. Plaintiff Michale Callahan filed a First Amendment retaliation claim against his ...

  • Ex-Lottery Commissioner Loses Conviction Appeal

    Ex-Lottery Commissioner Loses Conviction Appeal

    Recent Cases 05/20/2008

    The 4th Circuit upheld the conviction and sentencing of ex-North Carolina lottery commissioner Kevin Geddings, who concealed the fact that he had a conflict of interest with a lottery vendor. A federal jury convicted Geddings of five counts of mail f...

  • Skycaps File National Class Action

    Skycaps File National Class Action

    Recent Cases 05/16/2008

    Employers are cheating airport skycaps nationwide by paying them less than minimum wage and discouraging tipping by charging a $2 per bag "baggage fee," which customers falsely believe will be given to the skycaps, the skycaps say in a federal class ...

  • Avandia Securities Class Action Dismissed

    Avandia Securities Class Action Dismissed

    Recent Cases 05/15/2008

    A federal judge dismissed a shareholders' class-action complaint that accused GlaxoSmithKline of violating securities laws by withholding or manipulating information about its heart drug Avandia. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton dismissed for failur...

  • Class Claims MetLife Cheats By Assuming Kids Will Smoke

    Class Claims MetLife Cheats By Assuming Kids Will Smoke

    Recent Cases 05/13/2008

    Metropolitan Life Insurance defrauds customers by illicitly and secretively applying smokers' rates to children who don't smoke, claiming that by the time they are adults the kids will be smokers, a class action claims in Middlesex County Court. Plai...

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