NOVEMBER 2, 2010 — (WASHINGTON, DC) — The Supreme Court expressed doubts Tuesday about the constitutionality of a California law that seeks to ban the sale of violent videogames to minors. During an hour-long oral argument, several justic…
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OCTOBER 21, 2010 — In a trial that ended Thursday, a jury awarded $35.25 million to the family of a woman killed four years ago on Interstate 70, their attorneys said. Anita Gibbs was one of four Kansas City women who died in 2006 while on thei…
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) – OCTOBER 12, 2010 – A Philadelphia-area school district agreed Monday to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits over secret photos taken on school-issued laptops. The Lower Merion School District admitted it captured thous…
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SAN DIEGO – OCTOBER 12, 2010 A federal judge issued a worldwide injunction Tuesday stopping enforcement of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, ending the military’s 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops. U.S. District J…
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(September 7, 2010) — Ford Motor Co. reportedly settled a lawsuit filed by the family of a top Major League Baseball prospect who died when his Explorer flipped, days after a Mississippi jury awarded the plaintiffs $131 million. Ford reached a…
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KANSAS CITY, KS (August 31, 2010) Four Kansas voters filed suit in federal court on Thursday to block the state’s system of appointing justices of the Kansas Supreme Court. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, clai…
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MINNEAPOLIS – (August 24, 2010) An engineering firm that consulted on the Minneapolis bridge that collapsed in 2007 has agreed to pay $52.4 million to settle the last major piece of litigation brought by victims, attorneys said Monday. San Fran…
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(August 18, 2010) A plaintiffs lawyer who won $6.5 million that will be paid mostly in Lowe’s gift cards for his class action clients and more than $2 million in fees and costs in a settlement of a suit over allegedly stinky drywall calls it th…
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(August 10, 2010) — General Motors Corp. has failed to convince a federal appeals court to reverse a $3.5 million jury verdict in a case over the death of a teenager in the rollover of an allegedly defective Chevrolet Blazer. The lower court di…
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New York (August 02, 2010) — Plaintiffs suing Toyota Motor Corp. over problems with sudden unintended acceleration have revised their lawsuit to include supposedly new evidence of internal e-mails showing the automaker knew years ago that some…
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