MANHATTAN (CN) - Three women claim a cookbook writer from upstate New York hired them as au pairs, then sexually enslaved them.
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(CN) -- Days before a voting deadline for a controversial court reform bill in California, judges and attorneys are putting heavy pressure on lawmakers in a final push for control of the purse strings. NEW ORLEANS (CN) - Mississippi and Alabama residents cannot sue the U.S. government over formaldehyde-laden trailers that the Federal Emergency Management Agency provided when Hurricane Katrina made thousands of homes uninhabitable, the 5th Circuit ruled.
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - The U.S. Navy's plan to increase sonar exercises in the next five years will harm marine mammals and violates the Endangered Species Act, environmental groups say. WASHINGTON (CN) - A Bolivian woman claims a World Bank employee enslaved her after luring her to the United States to work as a nanny.
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A Latvian man hijacked the online accounts of innocent customers at large broker-dealer firms in the United States and made $850,000 by manipulating stock prices, costing his victims more than $2 million in losses, the SEC says.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CN) - After serving 20 years in prison on a conviction of poisoning her husband, a woman says the judge who convicted her "ordered her immediately released from prison based on newly discovered evidence" that her husband committed suicide.
TRENTON, N.J. (CN) - Community health centers say New Jersey is denying them millions of dollars of desperately needed Medicaid funding for poor patients. ST. LOUIS (CN) - The ACLU claims St. Louis violated the Missouri Sunshine Law by refusing to turn over public records on inmate grievances. MIAMI (CN) - The SEC says a crooked manager of an unregistered penny stock promoter made $169,000 from a telemarketing scam.
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ORLANDO (CN) - State court is a better venue for claims that Volusia County and its beach officials fostered an environment where underage lifeguards felt coerced into having sex with their supervisors, a federal judge ruled. (CN) - Police questioning may have caused the death of a man who had just crashed his truck into a Chicago train station and killed two people, a federal judge ruled. (CN) - The Drug Enforcement Administration is not liable for releasing video footage of one of its agents shooting himself in the leg while lecturing children about gun safety, the D.C. Circuit ruled. WASHINGTON (CN) - A federal judge has called for further briefing on jurisdiction by filmmakers who made pornographic parodies of "X-Men" and "The Avengers," as well as a fifth installment of "Massive Asses." GREEN BAY, Wisc. (CN) - Inventors of the air-operated foam dart gun can pursue claims that Hasbro owes loyalties for its popular Nerf brand of the toy, a judge ruled. (CN) - Managers of a billion-dollar trust fund will have to answer claims that they made poor and self-serving investing choices, though the losses did not affect the entire lifetime distributions for the beneficiary, the 7th Circuit ruled. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - The National Park Service did not properly study how horses and mules affect California's Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, a federal judge ruled.
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Federal Communications Commission will allow a new class of medical implants used in neuromuscular therapy to access 24 megahertz of broadband spectrum. WASHINGTON (CN) - The Consumer Product Safety Commission plans to require child-resistant packaging for any product containing .08 milligrams of an imidazoline in a single package. PAINESVILLE, Ohio - An apartment building blames East Ohio Gas Co. dba Dominion East Ohio for a natural gas explosion that destroyed his complex in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, on Jan. 24, 2011, in Lake County Court. |
MANHATTAN (CN) - Reporters Without Borders joined the chorus of outrage following Twitter's announcement that it might enforce country-specific censorship. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - As a November referendum looms, California's high court ruled that the state must use the latest Senate map for the June and November 2012 elections. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CN) - The Missouri Supreme Court refused to block the new district map for the state House, but the challengers may fare better in the lower courts. MANHATTAN (CN) - In a federal class action, an author claims McGraw-Hill "systematically violates its contracts" by self-dealing transactions with its subsidiaries to cheat authors on royalties from foreign sales.
LOS ANGELES - Dennis Morris claims these defendants violated copyright on his image of Sid Vicious to sell their products: Delta Apparel, Liquid Blaino Designs, and Junk Food Clothing Co., in Federal Court. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A Superior Court class action claims the Valley Health System illegally reduced pension benefits for 1,614 employees.
WASHINGTON - In a federal complaint against two men, but not their employers, the SEC claims former InPhonic VP Len A. Familant and Paul V. Greene, president of InPhonic supplier America's Premier Corp., used sham, round-trip transactions to inflate InPhonic's financial results. |
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LANSING, Mich. (CN) - A worker who responded to a request for information for a company newsletter by describing a ticket she found for a 1920s basketball game sponsored by the NAACP, in which the Ku Klux Klan played to benefit the Jewish Relief Fund, says she was fired for mentioning it. 
HOUSTON (CN) - A software developer claims Yelp! tried to "extort" $100,000 from it by accusing it of using "web crawling and data extraction technology" to repackage publicly available data from yelp.com and sell it to businesses. 
CHICAGO (CN) - A mother says she repeatedly warned school and city officials that her son was in danger because of racial tensions at his high school, but her warnings were ignored and her son was shot in the back in the school parking lot. 
MANHATTAN (CN) - A Madison Avenue art dealer defrauded a client of $4 million by selling works by Picasso, Manet, Matisse, Renoir and others, and keeping the money himself, federal prosecutors say. 
