Wednesday, November 04, 2009Last Update: 8:27 PM PT

     A woman claims Siluetas Inc. and Gloria Palacios, a cosmetician, disfigured her and caused pain and suffering by injecting her with "radiance profill" for a "cosmetic buttocks enhancement," in Miami-Dade County Court.

     Employees of Administaff, of Houston, and Conn-X, of Edgewood, Md., shot a co-worker in the eye with a BB gun and taped swastikas to his car because he's Jewish, and subjected another Jewish worker to harassment too, the EEOC claims in Baltimore Federal Court.
     Brett Bohl claims Newpros Communications and Alan Dyer fired him for refusing their orders not to interview qualified black job applicants, in Delaware County Court, Del.
     
     Class-action complaints alleging Labor Code violations have been filed against these defendants: eBay, in Santa Clara County Court; Comerica Bank, Century National Insurance Co., Norco Delivery Service, General Petroleum Corp., Total Transportation Services and Source One Staffing, and Bodega Latina Corp. dba El Super, in Los Angeles Superior Court; Les Schwab Tire Center of California, in Butte County Court; Commerce Energy dba Just Energy, for discriminating against women, in Cuyahoga County Court, Cleveland; GCA Services Group, in Memphis Federal Court; Wilcox Funeral Home, in Jackson, Miss., Federal Court; Manheim Orlando, in Orlando Federal Court; and American Mortgage Consultants, in Tampa Federal Court.
(Companies not separated by commas are defendants in the same case.)

     The FDIC, as receiver for Indymac Bank, demands that PMC Bancorp repurchase $10 million in 29 bad real estate loans, in Los Angeles Federal Court.

     A 20-year employee claims Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson fired her because she made him "look bad" merely by asking him questions at a public candidates' forum. She seeks punitive damages in Kansas City, Kan., Federal Court.

     Media Digital Corp. claims Research in Motion's smart-phone products violate patent on its "computer touch screen radio station control system," in Dallas Federal Court.

     Gospel singer Tramaine Hawkins and her husband say Zomba Gospel, Gospo Centric Records, and Vicki Lataillade owe her $87,000 they advanced the companies to record an album, in Sacramento Superior Court.
     
     Afterburner Films sued Epic Pictures Group and Patrick Ewald in a dispute over distribution of the film "Fast Glass" aka "Speed Kills" and also known by other names, in Los Angeles Superior Court.

     Carlyle Manufacturing and Lukon dumped more than 620,000 gallons of toxic waste in Southington, Conn., the state and federal governments claim in New Haven Federal Court.
     
     The City of Pacifica dumped thousands of gallons of untreated sewage into ocean tributaries, Our Children's Earth Foundation claims in San Francisco Federal Court.
     
     Clean Water Action sued R&R Industries and Ginmar Enterprises, alleging water pollution violations in separate complaints in Boston Federal Court.

     Reshare Commerce claims L'Oreal, Avon, Ace Hardware and others violate patent on its "computer facilitated product selling system," in Minneapolis Federal Court.

     United Air Lines wants United Airways enjoined from extending its services beyond Bangladesh and India to the United Kingdom, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates, in Brooklyn Federal Court.
     
     The USA wants AFIP Laboratories enjoined from using the acronym, asserting that it appears to falsely claim affiliation with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, in Greenbelt, Md., Federal Court.

     Avanir Pharmaceuticals inflated its share price through false and misleading statements about its Zenvia drug, and its alleged use for pseudobulpar effect, which causes sudden laughing, crying or other emotional displays, shareholders claim in San Diego Federal Court.