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A former CEO of a St. Louis golf putter company is suing his business partners after they abruptly ousted him from the business, an action he claims led to the quick demise of the company six months later. Further, the ...

The Washington Supreme Court said criminal convictions couldn’t be thrown out after a defendant’s death, striking down a 90-year-old state rule on the grounds that it deprives victims of justice. The ruling involved a man convicted in 2003 of murdering ...

A Washington-based policy group sued to overturn a rule that bars doctors and pharmacists from advising patients on Medicare’s prescription-drug plan, saying the ban violates the U.S. Constitution. The Washington Legal Foundation, in a complaint filed Thursday in federal court ...

Court ends free cigarettes law, tobacco group reports R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., the second-largest U.S. tobacco company, said a U.S. district court struck down a Washington state law that prohibited the distribution of samples to adult smokers in bars and ...

Livestock dealer, grocers indicted for selling bad meat A livestock dealer and the owners of Queen’s Market grocery store in Kansas City were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for selling thousands of pounds of adulterated meat, which was ...

A Charlotte, N.C., father’s $1,800 educational grant for part-time college study might count as income for child support, according to the Court of Appeals – but the judges disagree which factors will be relevant in making the final call. Writing ...

The Bush administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the use of race as a factor in assigning students to public schools, intervening in a pair of cases that may affect millions of children nationwide. “The solution to addressing ...

The next time the marketer of the Ab Force belt advertises a product, he’d better have proof that it does what its ads claim, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held. The 4th Circuit upheld a broad “fencing-in” ...

A hospital and its corporate parent could not be sued over the actions of a private practitioner who performed an operation at the hospital, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge has decided. The plaintiff, suing over whether the defendant doctor had ...

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York held that statements made by a defendant company’s vice president concerning the legality of the company’s pay docking policies were not protected by attorney-client privilege. In Frederick Scholtisek, et ...

Two of the country’s most prominent gastric-bypass surgeons had different theories about what caused the brain damage of a Virginia woman. Dr. Philip Schauer, president of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery and director of the Bariatric and Metabolic Institute ...