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Five inmates at the Idaho State Correctional Institution are suing national beer and wine companies for $1 billion, claiming that alcohol was responsible for their crimes, the Associated Press reports. The civil suit alleges that they were not sufficiently warned about alcohol’s addictive properties. The inmates, who do not yet have an attorney, drafted the litigation themselves. Keith Allan Brown, who pleaded guilty in 2010 to voluntary manslaughter, filed the suit on [...] The U.S. Department of Justice is coming down hard on the Baltimore Police Department as it prepares to issue a settlement to a man whose footage they deleted after he recorded them making an arrest. The settlement stems from a 2010 incident at the Preakness Stakes, which prompted the Department of Justice in January to send a statement of interest to the judge presiding over the resulting civil suit, advising him that such [...] Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is countersuing the New York hotel maid whose accusation of sexual assault last year brought down his glittering political career. The countersuit, signed Monday and made public Tuesday, seeks at least $1 million plus undetermined punitive damages from the maid, Nafissatou Diallo, who is accused of “falsely and maliciously asserting” she was attacked. The 18-page document accuses Diallo of malicious prosecution, abuse of process, false imprisonment, defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. “Ms Diallo participated [...] video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Polo tycoon John Goodman was sentenced to 16 years in prison and fined $10,000 by a Florida judge today who said Goodman “left to save himself” after his drunk driving crash pushed 23-year-old Scott Wilson into a canal. Goodman’s Bentley slammed into Wilson’s Hyundai and sent it into a nearby canal in Wellington, Fla., in February 2010. Wilson, an engineering graduate, was strapped into the driver’s seat [...] Chevron halts output after navy spots oil stains * Regulator ANP allows Chevron to stop production * Spill in November led to $11.1 billion civil suit (Recasts to add court decision, production halt) By Guillermo Parra-Bernal and Jeb Blount SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO, March 17 (Reuters) – A Brazilian court on Saturday barred 17 executives from Chevron and Transocean from leaving Brazil, pending criminal charges related to a high-profile oil spill last November. A federal judge [...] A Virginia man says when his daughter used the bathroom at the Starbucks in Penn Quarter, she discovered a hidden camera pointed at the toilet. Washington City Paper’s Lydia DePillis first reported the civil suit filed by Norfolk resident William Yockey against the Starbucks coffee location at 7th Street Northwest, blocks from the National Mall. Yockey told News4 he was sightseeing with his family [...]
iStockphoto/ericsphotography As if we needed any more evidence that the United States is fast becoming a Corporate Police State (i.e., systematically deploying police power to protect narrow corporate interests), make sure to check out this jaw-dropping story that broke in Canada late Friday. It details how the British Columbia Supreme Court uncovered what it says is a massive collusion between computer giant Cisco and U.S. law enforcement — a [...] How fitting that when Wall Street finally takes a hit after years of mortgage malpractice, the stick is called the False Claims Act. If there is one thing that’s never in short supply in banking circles, after all, it is false claims. Internet stocks are good as gold! House prices never fall! Derivatives make the financial system safer! A club the banks may have no choice but to [...] RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – Former Senator and presidential candidate John Edwards must testify before a judge about his relationship with his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, a North Carolina judge ruled on Friday. The private testimony will come during a deposition set for June 20 as part of a civil suit brought by Hunter against Edwards’ former aide, Andrew Young. Hunter has sued Young and his wife Cheri to force the [...] RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – Former Senator and presidential candidate John Edwards must testify before a judge about his relationship with his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, a North Carolina judge ruled on Friday. The private testimony will come during a deposition set for June 20 as part of a civil suit brought by Hunter against Edwards’ former aide, Andrew Young. Hunter has sued Young and his wife Cheri to force the [...] Mark Musarella, Caroline Wimmer/SIlive.com via CBS News: NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The outraged family of a local murder victim is taking on Facebook. It was a paramedic who took the crime scene photos, and posted them on the site, but is Facebook, itself, to blame? It’s a case of what the family is calling “disrespecting the dead,” reports CBS 2’s John Slattery. Martha and Ronald Wimmer think that the photographing and posting of their [...] |
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