Monday, February 08, 2010Last Update: 4:41 PM PT

     A mother claims her 34-year-old daughter died on Dec. 18, 2009 because the defective "electronic components and sensors used in the gas pedal systems" of her 2009 Toyota Corolla caused uncontrollable acceleration into a cement embankment, in Harris County Court, Houston.

     STC.UNM claims Environmental Robots violates a patent on "Soft Actuators and Artificial Muscles" in robots, in Albuquerque Federal Court.

     To capitalize on swine flu "hysteria," Procter & Gamble added vitamin C to its NyQuil and Day Quil drugs without a new drug application, and hawked them with false and misleading ads, a class action claims in Cincinnati Federal Court.

     Memphis has dumped sewage into the Mississippi River illegally for more than 6 years, the Tennessee Attorney General says in Memphis Federal Court.

     Allied Waste Industries and BFI Waste Systems fired one man and disciplined another for violating its illegal "English only" policy, which it enforces even on breaks and lunch, the men claim in Monterey County Court, Calif.

     Tippah County, Miss., Sheriff's Deputies Jeffery and William Rogers repeatedly Tasered a man without cause, until he defecated on himself, and they were both prosecuted and sentenced to jail for it, Jimmy Dale Hunsucker Jr. claims in Oxford, Miss., Federal Court.

     CVS Caremark sells expired medications, baby formula and food, a class action claims in New Orleans Federal Court.

      George Hanna dba Goldstar Wireless dba Gold Star Communications advertised himself as an attorney (notario) in a Spanish-language newspaper, though he is not, the Tennessee Attorney General says in Davidson County Court, Nashville.

     Air Products and Chemicals wants Airgas directors ordered to consider its $60 per share offer, a 38% premium over market price, or market cap plus $1.35 billion in cash, in Delaware Chancery Court.