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<title><![CDATA[Court Lets Developers Slide Over Explosive Deal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(CN) - Developers had no duty to tell clients that they were buying Orlando property beside a former World War II bombing range that still contains ammunition, the 11th Circuit ruled.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:31:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Cleared of Infringement]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Google did not infringe any part of two Oracle patents in developing the Android operating system, a jury ruled Wednesday after nearly eight days of deliberation.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 10:59:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No Discrimination in Firing Wife to an Illegal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CHICAGO (CN) - A woman who says she was fired for marrying a Mexican national who entered the United States illegally cannot sue her former employer, the 7th Circuit ruled.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 10:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Class Claims Facebook, Banks Played Favorites]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;MANHATTAN (CN) - Investors today filed a federal class action against Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and the banks that underwrote the company's already contentious Initial Public Offering, claiming that Facebook downgraded its earnings expectations before the IPO, but shared the bad news only with "certain preferred investors," and omitted it from the registration statement and prospectus.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 08:26:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Guess Must Pay Gucci at End of 'Ugly' Design Spat]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;MANHATTAN (CN) - A federal judge urged fashion houses to keep "ugliness" on the runway rather than in the courts in a 116-page decision that orders Guess to pay Gucci more than $4.5 million for trademark violations.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 10:04:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Judge Asks If Legislature Will  Ignore 'Whining']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Faced with bone-deep cuts in Gov. Brown's proposed budget, the judicial hierarchy in California has resorted to old methods in trying to persuade the Legislature to undo the damage. One of those tactics, circulating a petition among presiding judges, has run into a strong objection from a judge in Northern California, while another old move, creating a committee, has been blasted by a Los Angeles judge. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 14:28:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Veteran Claims CopRaped Him With a Club]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;HOUSTON (CN) - A man claims in Federal Court that a jailer beat and raped him with a billy club in a Houston city jail, saying, "How do you like this, you faggot?" - then said he would not have done it had he known he was assaulting a veteran.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 05:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[FTC Judge Slams Ads for Pom Pomegranate Juice ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;WASHINGTON (CN) - Pom Wonderful makes deceptive advertising claims about the health benefits of drinking its pomegranate juice, a Federal Trade Commission judge ruled.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 09:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lurid Complaint Against Dance Show Host]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;LOS ANGELES (CN) - Mary Murphy's former manager claims in court that stardom turned the choreographer for the Fox TV show "So You Think You Can Dance" into a "desperate, cocaine-fueled nymphomaniac" who owes him more than $1 million in commissions.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 05:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Debt Collector to Answer for Confusing Letters ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CHICAGO (CN) - A federal judge slammed a debt collection agency for sending confusing letters that do not explicitly identify the creditor.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:55:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bank Accuses Gaming Giants of Fraud]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;LOS ANGELES (CN) - City National Bank claims in Superior Court that video game publishers Konami Corp. and Autumn Games defrauded it of $14 million in credit for the "Def Jam Rapstar" game.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 05:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brown Appoints 17 to California Court Jobs]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(CN) - In a raft of recent appointments to various California courts, Gov. Jerry Brown named eight attorneys to Los Angeles judgeships and the first Latino to a court in San Jose.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 08:52:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nasty Attack Alleged on Charity for Orphans]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) - A charity that sponsors an African orphanage claims in court that a former volunteer hijacked its website and posted defamatory comments on it, claiming the orphanage "is really just an elaborate vacation home," and that the group "dupe(s) more and more people into blindly giving away their money."]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 05:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nasal Spray Makers Can't Blow Away Liability Case]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(CN) - A lawyer deserves another chance to hold the makers of Zicam nasal gel liable for allegedly killing his sense of smell, a federal judge ruled.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 07:56:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nurse Claims Rude Doctor Stabbed Her]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;SEATTLE (CN) - A doctor known for temper tantrums stabbed a nurse "with deliberate intention" with a needle he had just "used in the scrotum of (an) unfortunate patient," and the nurse got an "acute infection" from the wound, she claims in King County Court.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 05:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Colorful Testimony From 'the Help' at Gupta Trial]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;MANHATTAN (CN) - The former assistant to disgraced hedge fund executive Raj Rajaratnam told jurors Tuesday about her unlikely ascension from small-town party planner to key government witness in the largest hedge fund insider-trading scheme in U.S. history.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 13:13:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Your Honor, I Call the Alligator']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;COLUMBIA, Mo. (CN) - A Kansas City man who has appeared with his animals on "Animal Planet" wants to bring live alligators into a Boone County courtroom when he goes on trial for animal cruelty charges in July.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 05:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[$2 Million Fine for HiringUndocumented Workers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;HOUSTON (CN) - A major tree-trimming company avoided criminal prosecution for employing illegal immigrants by agreeing to forfeit $2 million to the United States, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 04:31:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hurricane Katrina Horror Case Refuses to Die]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;NEW ORLEANS (CN) - A former police commander who acknowledges he ordered Henry Glover's body to be stashed behind a levee after Hurricane Katrina claims in court that he did not order the body to be burned, and says the New Orleans Police Department wrongfully fired him and violated his civil rights.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 05:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Agency May Ask for More Trademark Examples]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is changing its regulations to allow the office to require that trademark holders provide additional examples of the use of their mark or other information proving the mark is in use.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 22:29:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazen Cheating Alleged in Silicon Valley]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Ubiquiti, a Silicon Valley tech company, claims in court that a former distributor stole designs, trademarks and source codes to make millions of dollars worth of counterfeit products - so many that Ubiquiti stock is suffering from it.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 05:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Now You Tell Us, Traumatized Workers Say]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;LAS VEGAS (CN) - Six hospital workers claim in court that they were traumatized by being held hostage by a gunman - in a "drill" by Alliedbarton Security Services that they were not told until later was just a drill.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 05:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Corruption Alleged at Liquor Commission]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CHICAGO (CN) - An Illinois Liquor Control Commission employee claims in court that his bosses falsely accused him of battery after he blew the whistle on the Commission's failure to investigate a night club secretly owned by Christopher Kelly, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's chief fund raiser.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 05:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
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