Friday, November 27, 2009Last Update: 3:31 PM PT

     Northwest Pipe inflated its share price with false and misleading statements, and the price dropped by $4.49 in one day, to $26.74, when the truth came out, shareholders say in Seattle Federal Court.
     
     The Louisiana Municipal Police Employees Retirement System accuses American International Group of gross mismanagement and corporate waste, in Manhattan Federal Court.

     AT&T charges state and local taxes for Internet access, which is illegal in Missouri, a class action claims in Jefferson City Federal Court.

     In Defense of Animals wants the Secretary of the Interior enjoined from rounding up 80-90 percent of the 2,500 wild horses on Bureau of Land Management land in the Calico Mountains of northwest Nevada, in DC Federal Court.

      A woman claims her boss at Events Exposition Services, Kevin Groenhof, "removed his penis from his pants and while watching pornography on his computer masturbated to ejaculation in front of plaintiff while she was pinned in her office and unable to exit," in Chicago Federal Court.

     Verizon ordered a man to speak only English to his Spanish-speaking co-workers and fired him on a pretext for complaining of it, Raphael Merced says in a discrimination claim in DC Superior Court.
     
     Class-action complaints alleging Labor Code violations have been filed against these defendants: Pacific Foods & Distribution, in Los Angeles Superior Court; Bank of America, and Boschma & Sons Dairy dba Wasco Dairy, in Fresno Federal Court; the Institute of Reading Development, and Ito dba Kikka, in Marin County Court, Calif.; American Express Travel Related Services, and Cash Ready Direct, in Manhattan Federal Court; Adecco USA, in Brooklyn Federal Court; Bluff City Metal Recycling, in Chicago Federal Court; and Groupware International, in Charlotte, N.C., Federal Court.
     (Companies not separated by commas are defendants in the same case.)

     Young Chang America and Music Corp. made piano actions with defective "metal action rail connecting brackets," a class action claims in Los Angeles Superior Court.

     A mom claims her child was seriously injured when her Crocs were sucked into an escalator; she says that despite more than 300 such accidents, Crocs blames the escalator companies and parents instead of its own dangerous shoes, in Newark Federal Court.

     Sharkco Seafood International handles and distributes fish that may contain dangerous scrombrotoxin, without an adequate plan to control it, the USA claims in New Orleans Federal Court.

     Led by a 98-year-old woman, black citizens sued the Alexandria, Va., City Council to try to save a building that was used as a segregated nursery school, a community gathering place and a meeting hall for black veterans, in Alexandria County Court.

     Deutsche Bank wants Bank of America to pay it $1.25 billion for mortgage loans and other asset-backed commercial paper, in Manhattan Federal Court.
TD Bank and Commerce Bank systematically deceived customers about the value of their "gift cards," a class action claims in Manhattan Federal Court.

     Zylotrim, the Obesity Research Institute, and Humanetics Corp. push "Zylotrim" weight-loss products with "blatantly false claims," a class action claims in Los Angeles Superior Court.

     Freeplay Music claims M-1 Global and Affliction Entertainment Group broadcast its copyrighted tune, "Legion," more than 400 times on TV commercials for an August 2009 mixed martial arts event, in Manhattan Federal Court.

     Cascade Acceptance Corp. filed for bankruptcy in Santa Rosa, Calif., listing more than $50 million in debts.