A FARMER has won a lengthy court bid for compensation after his broken leg became infected with the hospital superbug MRSA and had to be amputated below the knee. Ten years after he...

Santa’s No Win No Fee Compensation Claim

SANTA Claus’ headquarters in Lapland would be an epicentre of litigation if employment regulations and EU law were imposed or observed during the run up to Christmas. But the potential for legal action...

Lawsuit dismissed against Ky. entity (BPNews.net)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–After an eight-year legal battle, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Sunrise Children’s Services (formerly Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children) challenging the constitutionality of the entity’s state funding. ...

Environmentalists sue EPA over use of four common pesticides (The Fresno Bee)

Farmworker advocates and environmentalists want a federal court to strike the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision allowing the use of four common pesticides. ...

Citigroup Confirms $33 Million Smith Barney Gender Bias Settlement (Insurance Journal)

Citigroup Inc. Friday confirmed it agreed to pay $33 million to about 2,500 current and former female brokers at its Smith Barney unit to settle a class-action gender discrimination lawsuit. The ag ...

Norfolk Southern Reaches Agreement With Avondale Mills to Settle Claims From Graniteville Accident (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

After four weeks of trial, Norfolk Southern Corporation and Avondale Mills have agreed to a confidential settlement of the lawsuit brought by Avondale arising from the January 6, 2005 accident in Graniteville,...

DRAM price hash makes Komplett famous in UK

Defensive positions Four hundred people ordered 512MB DRAM for the imaginary price of £13 per module this week from Komplett.co.uk, according to sales director Per Anders Tveit. ...

Libel suit filed in US for ads against Sonia (New Kerala)

New York, April 8 : The Indian National Overseas Congress (INOC) has filed a $100 million libel lawsuit against three people associated with the US wing of the Bharatiaya Janata Party (BJP),...

$16 billion environmental lawsuit tests Chevron (The Christian Science Monitor)

The case filed by Ecuadorean indigenous groups is one of the largest environmental suits against an oil firm and could set a precedent. Chevron dismisses it as a ‘charade.’ ...

Libel suit against three for defaming Sonia in US (New Kerala)

New York, April 8: The Indian National Overseas Congress (US) has filed a $100 million libel lawsuit in a New York court against three members of the Forum for Saving Gandhi’s Heritage...

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Discrimination suit against road commission dismissed (The Holland Sentinel)

A more than 2-year-old discrimination lawsuit filed against the Ottawa County Road Commission has been dismissed, officials said. The commission spent about $147,000 in legal fees on the case as of mid-January, but costs have not increased much since then, officials said.