Tuesday, February 02, 2010Last Update: 4:47 PM PT

     Peter Licastro claims MBI Publishing Co. Motorbooks and Mike Mueller's book, "The Corvette Factories: Building America's Sports Car," violates copyright on diagrams in his book, "Birthplace of Legends, The Story of Corvette Production at the St. Louis Assembly Plant," in Pittsburgh Federal Court.

     The Department of Homeland Security failed to stop a lesbian supervisor from sexually harassing and stalking a Transportation Security Administration employee at Nashville Airport, the former worker claims in Nashville Federal Court.

     Directors of Healthways dumped their own stock for more than $9 million at inflated prices while the company was losing money, and imprudently kept buying the stock for employees' pension plan, an ERISA class action claims in Nashville Federal Court.

     224 Entertainment claims Aaron Kaufman, Rick Schwartz, Machete's Chop Shop, and Overnight Productions owe it more than $1 million, and film credits, for its work on surety services and bridge financing for the new film, "Machete," starring (nonparties) Robert DeNiro, Steven Seagal and Jessica Alba, in Los Angeles Superior Court.

     A teacher claims Texas unconstitutionally demands she be fingerprinted to keep her job. Pam McLaurin says that fingerprinting is "the mark addressed in Revelations" and if she submits to it she will be "tormented with fire and brimstone," in Travis County Court.

     Stephen A. Czarnik, a New York City attorney, "churned out bogus opinion letters" for three stock promoters, helping them illegally "dump their shares into the public market for millions of dollars," the SEC claims in Manhattan Federal Court.

     Major League Baseball Properties wants its "former licensee," The Upper Deck Co., prohibited from using any Major League Baseball trademarks on its trading cards, and it wants punitive damages for Upper Deck's 2009 and 2010 cards, in Manhattan Federal Court.

     United Law Group, of Irvine, Calif., a telephone solicitor founded by attorney Sean A. Rutledge, charges people up to $4,000 for foreclosure services and "loan modifications," then hangs them out to dry, the Ohio Attorney General says in Franklin County Court, Columbus.

     Kellogg pushes its Nutri-Grain Bars as healthy though they contain unhealthy artificial transfat, which contributes to heart disease, cancer and diabetes, according to a class action in San Diego Federal Court.

     David W. Wehrs and Maryland Title and Escrow Co. ran a $2 million Ponzi scheme through Wehrs' Annapolis businesses by "guaranteeing" 10.85 percent annual returns, the SEC says in Baltimore Federal Court.

     An antitrust complaint on interlocking directorships claims Thomas Reifenheiser serves illegally on putative competitors Cablevision, Citadel Broadcasting, Lamar Advertising, and Mediacom Communications, in Brooklyn Federal Court.

     Nassau County and Recruit Training School aka The Police Academy screen out and force black and minority recruits to quit, a former NYPD officer/job applicant claims in Brooklyn Federal Court.

     The Allied Defense Group is selling itself too cheaply to Chemring Group, for $59 million or $7.25 a share, shareholders say in Delaware Chancery Court.