WASHINGTON (CN) - Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., will stand trial in Congress to face 13 counts of ethics violations, including using his position to solicit donations for a center bearing his name at the City College of New York.
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LAS VEGAS (CN) - Boxer and Dancing with the Stars alum Floyd Mayweather failed to pay $62,000 in rent for commercial space that houses his promotion company, his landlord claims in Clark County Court. It's the latest in a string of lawsuits against the boxer. (CN) - A New York attorney lost his law license because he falsely claimed to be harmed by the Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center.
NEW YORK (CN) - A judge on Thursday dismissed allegations that a juror was threatened by another into convicting Brooke Astor's son for defrauding his mother, socialite Brooke Astor. Man, I feel like a total sucker. Here I've been attending law school for two years, getting sick to my stomach every time I catch an accidental glimpse of the current balances due on my student loans, when I could have gotten a legal education for a whopping $2,164.00 from the Erwin Rommel School of Law. |
(CN) - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer asked the 9th Circuit on Thursday to lift a judge's order blocking the most controversial parts of the state's new immigration laws. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton blocked parts of the law on Wednesday. (CN) - Citigroup will pay $75 million to settle civil charges filed against it Thursday by the Securities Exchange Commission. The SEC accused the banking giant of misleading investors about potential losses stemming from subprime mortgages in 2007. In reaching the deal, the company neither admitted or denied the SEC's allegations.
CHICAGO (CN) -Wulkan Monument sold its customers burial headstones that contained misspellings of the deceased person's name or did not deliver the memorials at all, according to a complaint filed by Illinois. (CN) - The Sheriff of Harris County, Texas is endangering the lives of inmates by denying them and their family members access to personal medical records critical to the care of their chronic conditions, according to suit filed by an inmate and his mother. DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (CN) - Nearly three decades after aiding in the slaughter of 160 Guatemalan villagers, a Guatemalan immigrant and former military operative will face the courts for the first time, authorities say.
BIRMINGHAM (CN) - A retired U.S. Marine says the contaminated water supply at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina caused his son's incurable brain tumor and the death of his daughter from brain cancer. His federal lawsuit accuses the United States of allowing Marines and their families to unwittingly drink and bathe in polluted and potentially poisonous water for 30 years. |
SALT LAKE CITY (CN) - The Skull Valley Goshute Indian Tribe and a group of utility companies may revisit their plan to develop a commercial spent fuel storage facility in Utah's west desert, a federal judge ruled. (CN) - The 3rd Circuit found no antitrust violations by a tire vendor that owned a 94 percent market share of the dirt oval track tire industry. (CN) - New York City can't make taxi drivers replace their yellow gas guzzlers with fuel-efficient hybrids, the 2nd Circuit ruled Tuesday. (CN) - A Virginia woman has the right to publish government officials' Social Security numbers online to make the point that those numbers should not be made available to the public, the 4th Circuit ruled. (CN) - California residents who lost their homes in a 2007 state park fire cannot collect damages from the state, an appeals court ruled. Even if the state had blocked access to the cave where the fire started, the court ruled, it would not have prevented people from bringing firewood and alcohol into Malibu Creek State Park. (CN) - Public trust funds in Hawaii can be used for the betterment of all citizens of the island state, not just for purposes related to natives, the 9th circuit ruled. (CN) - The names of jurors in former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial will not be released to the public until the trial's end, a federal judge in Chicago ruled Monday. (CN) - Polygamist Mormon leader Warren Jeffs' convictions were reversed Tuesday by the Utah Supreme Court after finding that jury instructions were given in error. (CN) - Ghanaian police were "unable or unwilling" to protect a Baptist preacher from being persecuted by Muslims, the 9th Circuit ruled, reinstating the Christian convert's bid for protection in the United States. (CN) - A cable technician who was hit by a falling suicide victim cannot collect damages from the New Orleans hotel from which the victim jumped, a Louisiana appeals court ruled. WASHINGTON (CN) - On the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it is considering requiring Internet retailers, movie theaters and others to accommodate people with disabilities. WASHINGTON (CN) - The medium tree-finch and the black breasted puffleg hummingbird, both native to Ecuador, are in danger of extinction, according to a proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the birds under the Endangered Species Act. WASHINGTON (CN) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission does not trace small amounts of radioactive material released for health and research purposes under rules in effect since 1961, according to NRC regulations proposed to create a tracking system for all radioactive material. |
WASHINGTON (CN) - U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke told lawmakers Wednesday that the leak of 92,000 war documents by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks on Sunday was "pretty appalling," but said that the material revealed nothing that would impact the Obama administration's approach to the war. WASHINGTON (CN) - The House of Representatives voted 308-114 Tuesday to approve a $58.8 billion war spending bill for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan amid debate over the necessity of U.S. troops in Pakistan, a discussion fueled by the recent leak of 92,000 war documents. Colgate-Palmolive Co. wants the court to declare that its "Triple Action," three-color nurdle design of toothpaste doesn't infringe on Glaxosmithkline's Aquafresh "Triple Protection" toothpaste, in New York Federal Court. Radio personality Shannon Stevens, who worked for more than 16 years on the "Rob & Shannon Show," says she was replaced by a younger female after complaining that her renewed contract was $30,000 less than her male co-host, in Alabama Federal Court. Associated Bank charges excessive overdraft fees by allowing customers' debit charges to be processed even when an account lacks funds, a class action claims in Milwaukee Federal Court. A graduate student at Central Connecticut State University says she was dropped from the program after telling U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd that female grad students were discriminated at the school, in Connecticut Federal Court. Trans4media lost money when Seattle officials demanded that a sign on the exterior of a ferry be removed, in King County Superior Court in Washington. Voting booths in Rhode Island that are rigged with new optic scan technology result in unfair results because voters can't see where they have cast their vote, voters claim in Rhode Island Federal Court. Hamilton County, Ohio's laws violate voters' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights because candidates for judgeships aren't required to be affiliated with a political party, the AFL-CIO claims in Ohio Federal Court. Product Development Group Inc. seeks a declaratory judgment to redesignate it as America's sole source of two ETU-110/E aircraft engines and 63 other products, in U.S. District Court in Wichita, Kan. |
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NEW ORLEANS (CN) - A panel of federal judges will meet Thursday in Boise, Idaho to debate which court should host the hundreds of lawsuits filed against BP since the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. 
NEW YORK (CN) - An environmental group says the widespread use of over-the-counter "antibacterial" soaps exposes users to dangerous chemicals, but the Food and Drug Administration continues to misbrand them as safe. The National Resources Defense Council claims in federal court that the FDA reported the chemicals triclosan or triclocarbon were found in 76 percent of 395 liquid soaps, but has still failed to ban such soaps or brand them as hazardous. 
CHICAGO (CN) - Employees of Burr Oak Cemetery resold occupied graves, stockpiled bodies and otherwise desecrated the remains of hundreds of people, according to a Cook County lawsuit. 
HARRISBURG, Pa. (CN) - An Israel-born artist claims the community that hired him to create a Holocaust memorial turned his sculpture into a "mutilation and bastardization of the artwork and its purpose" while performing restoration work. Harrisburg officials removed the artist's name and drastically changed the meaning of his sculpture, David Ascalon claims in Federal Court. 