Wednesday, October 26, 2011Last Update: 10:06 PM PT

     TYLER, Texas - Klausner Technologies claims Oracle, HP, EarthLink and others violate its Voice Over Internet Protocol patent.

     AKRON - A woman says that when she told her partner she wanted to dissolve their unprofitable florist shop he "seemingly went berserk," assaulted her, turned over her desk, snatched two telephones from her hand and threw them against the wall, and more.

     LAS VEGAS - The Venetian Casino Resort claims Stagnito Media owes it $19,312 for a 4-day Stagnito event at Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino.

     MINNEAPOLIS - A student at Hennepin Technical College claims he suffered a meniscus tear in his knee in an ill-advised "drill" that gave another student a detached retina.

     CHICAGO - The FDIC sued 10 former officers of Mutual Bank, and the bank's attorney, to recover $115 million lost on bad real estate loans, "$10.5 million in unlawful dividend payments, and $1.09 million in wasted corporate assets."

     PHILADELPHIA - Rudolph Cline-Thomas claims Alvin Keels Jr., Global Management Group and Corporate Athletic Management owe him more than $150,000 for referring (nonparty) NFL defensive back Leigh Bodden to the defendants.

     ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Hector Martinez claims the Tropicana Casino and Resort refused to pay him the $112,000 he won in a progressive jackpot, but booted him out and told him never to return.

     CHICAGO - Forty-nine online, primarily Chinese, retailers that sold counterfeit UGG products must each pay $750,000 to Deckers, the creator of UGG, which can partially confiscate funds from the counterfeiters' PayPal accounts, a federal judge ruled.

     MANHATTAN - A customer claims she suffered "psychological injuries, anxiety, abuse and humiliation when she discovered human dentures and saliva in the plate of food served to her table" at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers.

     PHOENIX - A woman with a peanut allergy claims iQor and Allied Interstate failed to stop or discipline co-workers who taunted her by "trying to place peanuts on her" and "touch(ing) her arm and leg with peanuts" to see if she was "faking."

     MONTREAL - A BlackBerry owner filed a class action against Research in Motion for its system crash of Oct. 11-14.

     CHICAGO - Priceline.com, Travelocity.com, Expedia.com, Hotels.com and other online travel companies are liable to Rosemont, Ill., for paying tax only on the wholesale price of rooms, not the rental rate.

     LOS ANGELES - Pacific Western Bank claims Sunwest Bank competed unfairly in a deceptive ad in the (nonparty) San Diego Business Journal: "Is Your Bank Strong Enough to Survive in This Economy?", which listed "purported empirical data" about seven banks' supposed "tangible common equity" ratios, which was "literally false."

     FAIRFIELD, Calif. - A guest claims a bartender at Vino Bello Resort, in Napa, co-defendant Jason Zudell, gave her a date rape drug and sexually assaulted her.

     TRENTON, N.J. - Just because he faces federal charges of taking kickbacks is no reason for the Toms River Board of Education to refuse to pay him $63,000 in unused vacation and sick pay it owes him, its former School Superintendent Michael Ritacco says.

     BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A medical marijuana cardholder and member of a medical marijuana association claims the Kern County Sheriff's Department raided the association illegally, shutting it down and illegally confiscating private medical records.

     LOS ANGELES - Shawn Chris-Bass claims actress Ashley Williams owes him for the work he did as her personal manager from July 16 this year until she fired him on Sept. 13.

     ATLANTA - A former associate vice president claims Albany State University fired her illegally after she reported misuse of federal funds.