St. Louis Park resident Stephanie Rozman lost her golden retriever, Csaba, last month to sudden and unexpected kidney failure. She contends that Csaba died as a result of eating poisoned dog food manufactured by Menu Foods. Rozman’s subsequent class action ...
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Nestle files lawsuit to get revenue from Eskimo Pie sales Nestle, which bought Eskimo Pie and Chipwich ice-cream brands from CoolBrands International in January, asked a judge to order the maker of frozen desserts to surrender more than $1 million ...
Read More »Fired attorneys did good job, ex-U.S. official says
A former deputy attorney general lavished praise on the U.S. attorneys who were dismissed last year, telling Congress only one of those fired by the Bush administration was among the prosecutors he considered weak performers. James B. Comey, who served ...
Read More »U.S. judge dismisses suit over Israeli terror policy
A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing Israel of war crimes for targeting and killing suspected terrorists, asserting that it’s not the court’s role to police “armed conflicts across the globe.” The suit stems from a 2002 attack by the ...
Read More »Florida court disbars lawyer who accepted DuPont payment
The Florida Supreme Court disbarred Roland Raymond St. Louis, whose law firm accepted a $6.4 million payment from DuPont Corp. while representing clients who sued DuPont alleging damages from the fungicide Benlate. Citing conflict of interest and intentional deceit among ...
Read More »‘Killadelphia’ overtakes ‘City of Brotherly Love’
Philadelphia, whose name means city of brotherly love, is being tagged with a less flattering label this year as its murder rate soars – “Killadelphia.” The city had 137 homicides through April. That’s a 14 percent increase from a year ...
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Bankruptcies rise 47 percent in April, 63 percent this year U.S. bankruptcy filings in April were 47 percent higher than the same month last year, according to statistics compiled from government records by Automated Access to Court Electronic Records. During ...
Read More »Public Defenders get less than requested
Missouri State Public Defender Marty Robinson got an exercise in fractional math Thursday, as members of a legislative conference committee put the final touches on the fiscal year 2008 budget. The committee settled on an increase of $1.15 million for ...
Read More »BP execs blamed in 2005 blast
Four of BP Plc’s U.S. executives should be fired for failing to prevent the 2005 explosion at a Texas refinery that killed 15 people, an internal company study said. The study, completed in February and released today by court order, ...
Read More »Birth control patch led to embolism, suit says
Leslie Walquist will never make the decision whether to have children because she suffered a near fatal pulmonary embolism at age 25 after using the Ortho Evra birth control patch, a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court claims. Walquist suffered ...
Read More »Ex-U.S. Attorney: Firings done to give Republicans experience
One of the eight U.S. attorneys fired last year says he was told his dismissal was necessary to let a Republican lawyer get experience to qualify for a federal judgeship. In written answers to supplement his congressional testimony, ex-U.S. Attorney ...
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