Women Launch New Legal Salvo Against Wal-Mart October 31, 2011 By Dan Levine and Poornima Gupta Women pursuing discrimination claims against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. filed a reformulated lawsuit against the world’s largest retailer, their first since...
Oklahoma Family Sues Church Over Death in Ring October 31, 2011 By JARREL WADE The family of a former University of Tulsa football player who died following an unsanctioned boxing match at a local...
Insurer Sues Over Collapsed Pool at S.D. Aquatic Center October 31, 2011 An insurance company is suing the maker of a portable pool to try to recoup money paid out as a...
Calif. City Struggles to Cope with Possessions of Homeless October 31, 2011 By CHRISTINA HOAG Everything from toasters to typewriters is piled high on a Skid Row sidewalk in Los Angeles, Calif., under the watchful...
West Virginia Board Awarded $2.6 Million in Lawsuit October 31, 2011 The Charleston Sanitary Board will get more than $2.6 million from a company it had hired to make compost out...
Insurer Sues Former Iowa College Administrator October 28, 2011 The insurance company that paid Drake University’s theft claim has filed a lawsuit against the former Drake administrator who stole...
$15M Lawsuit in Mass. Pizza Delivery Killing October 28, 2011 The family of a Boston, Mass., pizza delivery man has filed a $15 million wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against...
Widow of Man Killed by Wyoming Research Bear Sues October 28, 2011 By MEAD GRUVER The widow of a man killed by a grizzly bear not long after the animal awoke from tranquilizers in the...
Kin Sue Amtrak Over Rhode Island Woman’s Death After Fall October 28, 2011 By LAURA CRIMALDI The family of a 91-year-old woman who died a week and a half after falling on a train station platform...
Stop the Press Releases! PR Newswire Sued by Rival October 27, 2011 By Jonathan Stempel When one distributor of corporate press releases concluded that a rival was trying to steal its secrets, it didn’t issue...