Polled to take Pennsylvania handily in the April 26 primary, Hillary Clinton gave an impassioned speech on labor rights at the state's biennial union convention.
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Fresno State University must face First Amendment claims for disciplining a politically outspoken student who confronted two professors about a poem published in the student newspaper that contained controversial lines about the United States, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday.
After Sen. John McCain demanded punishment for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. Army refused to disclose its communications with McCain's Armed Services Committee, Bergdahl's attorney claims in court.
Charter Communications fails to disclose that it sells subscribers' personal information to third parties, a class action claims in Federal Court. John Barrett Holdings abruptly backed out of a 10-year commitment to open high-end salons at more than a dozen department stores, Saks & Co. claims in court. Dozens of auto dealers claim that Kayaba Industry Co. and KYB Americas Corp. monopolize the market for shock absorbers, in Federal Court. Venus Locations claims in separate federal lawsuits that 18 companies violate its patent for "automatic vehicle location, collision notification, and synthetic voice," including AT&T, Lyft, Microsoft, Motorola, T-Mobile and Verizon. Texas Patent Imaging claims in separate federal lawsuits that eight companies violate its patent on wireless image distribution: Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Eastman Kodak, Olympus, Leica, FujiFilm and Casio. |
In the shadow of Flint, Michigan's contaminated-water crisis, Courthouse News investigates regulatory loopholes that disguise the presence of lead in water systems across the country. Part II of this series explores what is being done about it. The top House Democrat investigating Flint, Michigan's water crisis accused Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday of being dishonest in his sworn congressional testimony.
Nebraska officials have immunity for their decision to reduce mental health prison services, and release a mentally ill man who murdered four people three weeks after his release, the Eighth Circuit ruled. Dow Chemical's board of directors wasted corporate assets by fighting price-fixing allegations for 10 years before agreeing to a $835 million settlement, a shareholder claims in court. An antitrust lawsuit and airline-slot regulation by aviation authorities torpedoed a deal to give United more power at Newark International Airport. Jury selection in the trial of Ammon Bundy and the other militants who seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January will begin Sept. 7, a federal judge said Wednesday. A massive mining project will destroy the landscape and divert and pollute water from creeks in a pristine Montana mountain chain and wilderness, a placer mining company claims in a lawsuit against the federal government.
Anti-abortion activist David Daleiden says his house was raided Tuesday by agents with the California Department of Justice, who seized his personal information and video footage of Planned Parenthood staff allegedly arranging the sale of aborted fetal tissue. New York's high court Tuesday expressed concern about the potential for abuse in monitoring phone calls of pretrial defendants who can't make bail, but refused to overturn a conviction that used them. Seven professional models claim in court that a Jacksonville, Fla. strip club pirated their photos and is using them to promote itself online. A northern Nevada tribe will collect $769,645 in federal housing money, and a second tribe will not have to repay a $110,444 overpayment - at least for a while.
A federal judge threw out one of Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act lawsuits against the State Department regarding the use of private email accounts to conduct official state business. Michigan's much-reviled system of putting state-appointed emergency managers in charge of financially distressed municipalities and school districts drew a federal complaint Wednesday from the Detroit Public Schools Board. Andre Khazraei, an artist, claims hip-hop singer Chris Brown used his "Konfused" trademark on clothing, in Federal Court. |
A widening scandal over San Francisco police officers sending racist and homophobic text messages has led the city's public defender to call for a full civil rights investigation.
A woman whose son drowned in Costa Rica can continue her lawsuit against the church that sponsored his mission trip, the Mississippi Court of Appeals ruled.
A federal judge ruled in Pfizer's favor on claims that its depression medication, Zoloft, causes birth defects in unborn children whose mothers ingest the drug while pregnant. A Delaware judge ordered Al Jazeera America to pay most of Al Gore's attorneys' bills in its court battle against the former vice president over its buyout of Current Media. A federal judge denied Anthem's request for access to computers of former customers who accuse the insurance giant of failing to protect their personal information in an enormous data breach last year. A federal judge approved an $8.5 million settlement in the case of a widow who claimed contractor negligence led to the death of her helicopter pilot husband in a U.S. Army training exercise. Nearly three years into his quarter-century prison term, a Minnesota man will get another shot to prove his innocence at a new murder trial. A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit lobbied hard Wednesday for Hawaii to pause its plan to privatize money-pit hospitals on Maui and Lanai that would lead to 500 unionized workers losing their jobs. San Jose has approximately 300 massage parlors, a number of which act as havens for prostitution and human trafficking, according to a San Jose Police Department report. City leaders on Wednesday said the failure to pass a property tax by voters will not affect Ferguson's ability to live up to the terms of a consent decree with the Justice Department. A transgender woman confined to a mental hospital for the past 20 years after a murder trial filed a federal complaint to undergo surgery. Westjet Airlines allows its pilots to sexually harass flight attendants, a class claims in court. Mitsubishi, of Japan, and Exportadora de Sal, of Mexico, used their market power to restrict competition in sea salt, Sea Breeze Salt, of California, and Innofood, of Mexico, claim in Federal Court. |
The National Park Service must face claims that it wrongfully exhumed more than 300 sets of Native American human remains and cultural artifacts from a national monument, the Ninth Circuit ruled. A family business that preserves bull semen and cow embryos sued its liquid nitrogen provider over what it claims is $4 million worth of ruined bovine genetic material. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she won't allow Alaska prosecutors to investigate allegations of sex crimes involving the former chief of an oil field services company.
A federal judge rejected a recommended a sentence of 30 months in prison and three years probation for a former San Francisco political consultant who pleaded guilty to possessing a biological toxin and a firearm with the serial number removed. Criminal proceedings won't stop the FTC's efforts to secure a financial judgment from payday lenders in a parallel civil case, a federal judge ruled after freezing the lenders' assets.
The IRS grants an improper tax exemption to the religious ministry for their housing allowances, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and others claim in a federal complaint. A federal antitrust action accuses Warner Chilcott of conspiring with generic drugmakers to maintain a monopoly on oral contraceptives with Loestrin 24 Fe. Linking to a website where copyrighted photos have been posted without permission is not an act of copyright infringement by the one who placed the hyperlink, a European Court of Justice adviser said Thursday. |
Donald Trump's loss in the Wisconsin primary now makes a messy, contested Republican National Convention this summer a near certainty.
Citizens and businesses have sued Albuquerque, claiming its $120 million rapid transit plan will ruin dozens of historic sites on Route 66.
A celebrated photographer of gay culture in the American Northeast claims in a federal complaint that he is being denied credit for photographs of fellow luminary Robert Mapplethorpe in drag. 
