A federal judge in California has tentatively decided not to dismiss the first of hundreds of lawsuits over acceleration problems against Toyota Motor Corp. U.S. District Judge James Selna said Monday he may reject a motion by Toyota seeking to …
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Friday ordered insurance companies to pay their share of a settlement with priest sex abuse victims that is the foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington’s reorganization plan, and he angrily turned aside the insurers’ …
A federal claims court has ordered Rosemary Barbour to pay more than $350,000 in penalties and damages to FEMA in what the judge described as a scheme to defraud the government on a post-Hurricane Katrina contract. The decision by Judge …
A federal judge has ruled that plaintiffs can seek punitive damages in some claims related to the 2010 Gulf oil spill. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier’s ruling came in mass litigation related to thousands of claims over economic damages. The …
A Broward County judge has ruled that red-light cameras don’t violate constitutional rights. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that Judge Steven P. DeLuca ruled Wednesday on an array of issues including due process and speedy trial protections, and the admissibility …
A judge in West Texas has dismissed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a 15-year-old Mexican boy killed by a Border Patrol agent. Senior U.S. District Judge David Briones on Aug. 11 threw out the …
A South Texas attorney has pleaded guilty to being a middleman and arranging a payment to a corrupt judge. Federal prosecutors say 54-year-old Jose Martin “Joe” Valle of Harlingen pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon in Brownsville to aiding and abetting extortion …
A federal court further limited lawsuits seeking damages from the Tennessee Valley Authority for its huge spill of toxin-laden coal ash, but the judge ruled that claims related to property damages and reduced property values will to go to trial. …
The Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline must decide whether a former Superior Court judge will lose his $81,000 annual pension because he was convicted of a $440,000 insurance fraud for which he’s serving 46 months in federal prison. The former …
A federal judge in Boston has dismissed a lawsuit against Facebook filed by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Harvard classmates of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The Winklevoss twins’ claim that Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook from them got the full Hollywood …