Sunday, November 15, 2009Last Update: 8:37 AM PT

      The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants claims the Federal Trade Commission exceeded its authority by subjecting accountants to the Identity Theft Red Flags and Address Discrepancies Under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003, in DC Federal Court.

     SafeNet fraudulently backdated stock options to five defendant executives, and other employees, the SEC claims in DC Federal Court.

     Chesapeake Fine Food Group says it bought Kauffman's Original Crab Cakes seafood business on the condition that Ronald and Margie Kauffman would not disclose their secret crab cake recipe, but the Kauffmans opened a competing restaurant using the same recipe. Chesapeake wants an injunction and $5 million in Baltimore County Court.

     Sirius XM Radio recorded telephone conversations without customers' knowledge, which is illegal in California, according to a class action in Los Angeles Superior Court.

     Shareholders say 3Com is selling itself too cheaply to Hewlett-Packard, for $2.7 billion or $7.90 a share, in Delaware Chancery Court.
     
     Hemispherx Biopharma inflated its share price by failing to report on FDA decisions and delays for its new drugs, including Ampligen, shareholders claim in Philadelphia Federal Court.
     
     The former CEO of The Jolt Co. claims Emigrant Capital Corp. hurt him and common shareholders when it took over the company and squeezed him out, in Monroe County Court, N.Y.

     360 Degrees LLC claims Phoenix Suns forward Amar'e Stoudemire owes it $154,000 for management services, in Maricopa County Court.

     Panda Express misrepresents six of its menu items as vegetarian though they are prepared with animal flesh or chicken stock, a class action claims in Los Angeles Superior Court.

     Beck Hansen claims Revolver USA, and Aloysius Kowaleski dba Flipside Records are selling her album, "Stereopathetic Soulmanure," without permission, in Los Angeles Federal Court.
     
     Momentum Motion Pictures Releasing sued Thinkfilm and Capitol Films Development in a dispute over a movie called "No Rules," in Los Angeles Superior Court.

     Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howe, who were held hostage for 5 years, and the survivors of Thomas Janis, who was killed, seek damages from the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, in Tampa Federal Court.

     The NAACP claims The Philadelphia Fire Fighters Union Local No. 22, International Association of Firefighters subjects black firefighters to racial abuse, as indicated by the name of the co-defendant, the Concerned American Fire Fighters Association, Philadelphia Chapter of the Caucasian American Fire Fighters Association, in a class action in Philadelphia Federal Court.
     
     Class-action complaints alleging Labor Code violations have been filed against these defendants: Schaefer Ambulance Services, and Administaff Cos. II, in Los Angeles Superior Court; Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, for racial discrimination, in San Francisco Federal Court; Taco Bell, in Stanislaus County Court, Calif.; Paradigm Packaging West, in San Bernardino County Court, Rancho Cucamonga; Rescare California dba RCCA Services, in Contra Costa County Court; Creative Design Interiors, in Sacramento Superior Court; Affiliated Computer Services, in Eugene, Ore., Federal Court; Textron, in an ERISA complaint in Providence, R.I., Federal Court; U.S.A. Broadband Wireless Corp., in Miami Federal Court; Holiday Delta Inc., in Wilmington, N.C., Federal Court; KFC, in Birmingham, Ala., Federal Court; Bel-Mac Roofing, in Pensacola, Fla., Federal Court; and Pope & Talbot, in Vancouver, B.C., Supreme Court, Canada.
     (Companies not separated by commas are defendants in the same case.)

     Black & Decker directors sold out too cheaply to The Stanley Works, for $4.5 billion, or $57.57 per share, shareholders say in Baltimore County Court.

     San Antonio police Officer Raymond Ramos sexually assaulted a woman and was indicted for it, she claims in Bexar County Court.

     A sheriff's deputy claims Gannett Co. (WTSP-TV) altered a videotape and then claimed on the air, "the sheriff's office will have to face the fact that a deputy at the jail thought it was appropriate to dump someone out of a wheelchair onto the ground and another deputy appears to think it's funny," in Hillsborough County Court, Tampa.

     Credit-card lender Advanta Corp. and affiliates filed for bankruptcy in Delaware, listing $363 million in assets and $331 million in liabilities.
     
     Global Container Lines filed for bankruptcy in Central Islip, N.Y., listing more than $30 million in debts, some of them disputed.

     Walker Digital claims Capital One Bank violated two patents on programs for customizing credit accounts, in Los Angeles Federal Court.

     Princeton Digital Image Compression claims Fujifilm violates its patents on "Modified Statistical Coding of Digital Signals" and "Video Level Control," in Trenton, N.J., Federal Court.
     
     British Telecommunications claims STMicroelectronics violates patent on a "Method and Apparatus for Encoding, Decoding and Transmitting Data in Compressed Form," in Boston Federal Court.