Paramount Settles Lawsuit with Estate of Mario Puzo
On Thursday, notice of settlement was filed to settle a lawsuit and counterclaims between Paramount and the estate of Mario…
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HIV Prison Segregation Ends in Alabama
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ruled to end the segregation of prisoners with HIV in Alabama on the…
NRA Flays Media, Videogame-Makers; Hints Guns Can Create Jobs
On Friday, the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre made a pitch at the press conference that made people wonder how this guy…
New York Law School Misleading Jobs Data is Not a Sufficient Cause of Action
On Thursday, the Appellate Division, First Department upheld the dismissal of a class action lawsuit brought by nine graduates alleging…
Eli Lilly Settling Bribe Case for $29 Million
On Thursday, U.S. pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Co agreed to pay a sum of $29 million to settle civil…
Briton in Florida Prison Trying to Overturn his Murder Conviction
On Thursday, lawyers for a UK citizen serving time in prison in Florida for a 1986 double murder filed a…
Bernard Madoff’s Brother Gets 10-year Prison Time
On Thursday, US District Judge Laura Taylor Swain approved a 10-year prison sentence and forfeiture of a symbolic $143.1 billion…
Japanese Subsidiary of UBS Pleading Guilty to Fraud
On Wednesday, UBS made history by earning the dubious honor of becoming the first global bank in the last two…
Court Rules for Warrantless Use of Cell Phone Location Data
On Friday, in a blow to privacy activists, U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle ruled during a retrial that in…
Insurers File Lawsuit to Avoid Paying in School Sex Abuse
In a lawsuit unsealed Tuesday at the Brooklyn federal court, two insurers, the Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America…
Another Key Apple Patent in the Apple Samsung War Ruled Invalid by Patent Office
Apple’s position in the Smartphone wars against Samsung seems to be growing more tenuous every day. On Wednesday, Samsung submitted…
Donald Trump Imparts an Expensive Lesson to Sheena Monnin
The Miss Universe beauty pageant run by Donald Trump said on Tuesday that it has won $5 million in damages…