Sunday, December 20, 2009Last Update: 7:54 PM PT

     Gurnee Property/KLCG Property filed for bankruptcy in Delaware, listing more than $100 million in debts.

     Directors of California Micro Devices are selling the company too cheaply to ON Semiconductor and Pac-10 Acquisition, for $4.70 a share of $108 million, shareholders say in Santa Clara County Court, Calif.
     
     QuadraMed is selling itself too cheaply to Bavaria Holdings, for $8.50 a share of $126 million, shareholders claim in Delaware Chancery Court.
     
     Directors of SunPower Corp. overstated the company's earnings by at least $15 million, shareholders claim in San Francisco Federal Court.
     
     NightHawk Radiology Holdings inflated its share price through false and misleading statements, shareholders claim in Boise Federal Court.

     Stanpark Construction built 131 defective houses in the Tempo subdivision of North Las Vegas, according to a class action in Clark County Court. Dozens of homeowners in the Central Park Developments sued Central Park LLC, Amland Development and US West Development in a similar complaint in the same court.

     Hasbro claims Atari sublicensed Hasbro's video game "Dungeons & Dragons" to a Hasbro competitor without permission, in Providence, R.I., Federal Court.

     Universal Music-Z Tunes insists it owns the copyright to the tune, "You Are Not Alone," which Michael Jackson sang, and that it does not infringe on the tune "If We Can Start All Over," as Edgard Van Passel and Daniel Van Passel claim, and that a judgment the Van Passels won in Belgium is invalid, in Manhattan Federal Court.

     Jared Edwards claims he worked for Keenen, Shawn and Marlon Wayans, and they stole his book manuscript, which St. Martin's Press published as "101 Ways to Know You're a Golddigger," in a copyright claim in Manhattan Federal Court.

     Marcon Engineering refused to pay P&B Concrete Construction the $509,000 it owes it for work on the U.S.-Mexico border wall, the United States claims on behalf of P&B in Tucson Federal Court.

     Port Authority Officer Francis Pisano says the New York Post defamed him by publishing his photo and badge number in a story about police corruption and a mass murder, in Nassau County Court, N.Y.

     Anderson & Gutierrez Development took hundreds of thousands of dollars to build or improve modular homes and waltzed without doing the jobs, the State of Louisiana claims in St. Tammany Parish Court.

     Kirkland Young LLC, Attorney Aid LLC, and ABK Consultants deceived consumers in a foreclosure rescue scam, the State of Florida claims in Miami-Dade County Court.
     Also sued are David Botton and Samy Botton, managers of Kirkland Young; Bridget Grant, a manager of Attorney Aid; April Botton Krawiecki, a manager for ABK; Michael Botton, an attorney; Ryan Matthew Grant, an attorney; and Brian Michael Rokaw, an attorney.

     The Mexican Hass Avocado Importers Association claims Preston/Tully Group swiped $2.7 million that should have been spent promoting avocados, in Brooklyn Federal Court.

     Atlantic International Investment, 207 Redwood LLC, AmPac Investment Group, and Annie Kim refuse to return more than $1 million invested in their alleged real estate developments, according to seven complaints in Howard County Court, Md.

     Newegg misrepresents the speed of some of the hard drives it sells, a class action claims in Los Angeles Superior Court.

     Sunstar Kalamazoo dba Motel 6 and Akhil Bhatt fired two workers after they needed medical treatment for exposure to a motel room that had been used as a meth lab, the former employees claim in Kalamazoo County Court, Mich.
     
     Class-action complaints alleging Labor Code violations have been filed against these defendants: Blockbuster, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Time Warner Cable, and Daughters of Charity Health System, in Los Angeles Superior Court; Ortho Mattress, and Southern California Pizza Co., in Orange County Court, Calif.; ITT Corp., in Boise Federal Court; Old Second Bancorp, and Sudler Building Services, in Chicago Federal Court; Don Stoltzner Mason Contractor, in Cook County Court; Alternative Entertainment, in Madison, Wisc., Federal Court; Frontier Healthcare Group, in Beaumont, Texas, Federal Court; PTM Management, and Best Metropolitan Towel & Linen Service, in Brooklyn Federal Court.
     (Companies not separated by commas are defendants in the same case.)

     St. Louis unconstitutionally tickets and arrests people who put political fliers on the windshields of parked cars, eight plaintiffs claim in St. Louis Federal Court.

     Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada misrepresented annuities it sold to senior citizens, and the high commissions it took, according to a class action in Los Angeles Superior Court.