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Supreme Court rejects challenge to marriage law The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a challenge by two gay California men to a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The justices made no ...

Evidence of excessive force by a Kansas City police officer was meager at best, and his firing was unreasonable, a Jackson County judge ruled. Officer Timothy Coffer was reinstated last week, when Judge Thomas C. Clark determined evidence didn’t support ...

Insurance companies are attracting the most litigation worldwide, fighting about 1,700 lawsuits each and spending $33 million a year on average defending themselves, an international survey released Tuesday shows. Insurers top the list of targets in 2006, fending off everything ...

A Missouri pet toy distributor is suing the maker of popular fur-removal tool for shedding the distributor after it helped get the tool on QVC and into PetSmart and PETCO stores. Chesterfield-based Creative Marketing and Sales claims it took the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to reconsider the constitutional protection for abortion rights, rejecting an appeal from a Georgia woman who says she regrets her role in a case decided alongside the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. The justices ...

BP reached preliminary settlements of 114 lawsuits brought by workers injured at a 2005 explosion at the company’s Texas City, Texas, refinery. The company still faces a trial next month from the first of more than 300 injured workers who ...

A JPMorgan Chase & Co. customer sued the bank for putting its interests ahead of hers by steering her trust fund into company-controlled investments that generated lower returns than non-Chase vehicles. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, ...

In 1999, Stephen Gass, a patent lawyer and woodworking hobbyist, invented a device to make power saws safer. It was designed to prevent or at least minimize the gruesome injuries that result when someone’s flesh hits the blade of a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for three small tobacco companies to challenge part of the $206 billion settlement reached eight years ago between 46 states and the nation’s four biggest cigarette makers. The justices without comment turned away ...

Comair sues attendants union to block strike Comair Holdings, Delta Air Lines’ bankrupt commuter unit, sued its flight attendants’ union to prevent a strike, saying a work stoppage would threaten the airline’s survival. Comair filed suit against the International Brotherhood ...

Two years after Merck pulled the painkiller Vioxx from the market, 10 personal injury lawsuits have reached verdicts with mixed results for the drug maker. After losing a $235 million verdict in the first trial in August 2005, the company ...