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Immigrant workers recruited from South America and the Dominican Republic after Hurricane Katrina filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a prominent New Orleans hotelier, saying they are being exploited. Decatur Hotels President and Chief Executive Officer Patrick Quinn III said he ...

Freddie Mac, the second-largest source of U.S. mortgage financing, tentatively agreed to pay $4.65 million to settle a class action lawsuit related to accounting mistakes that may have hurt pension funds. The proposed settlement would be covered by insurance, the ...

Confidential settlement in tractor death A Jasper woman who lost her husband in a farming accident agreed Thursday to settle her lawsuit against Deere & Co. The confidential settlement reached Thursday was the “right thing” for both parties, said Chris ...

Before Sept. 11, 2001, Rufiath Yousuff didn’t think much about politics or civil rights. A student at the University of Melbourne in Australia at the time, Yousuff led a quiet life of opportunity provided by her parents, who emigrated from ...

Family. Legal career. Family. Legal career. At times, managing both can feel like juggling an elephant and a hippo. As they both leap through rings of fire. Now, some law firms are trying to ease the balancing act by allowing ...

A Kansas City man has been charged with kidnapping and raping a 30-year-old woman. According to court records, Faisal A. Shegow, 45, allegedly beat the woman Tuesday morning at an apartment in the 3400 block of Harrison Avenue when she ...

Viacom Inc.’s MTV Networks and singer Jennifer Lopez are infringing a suburban Chicago dance studio’s registered trademarks and clothing line as they promote a new MTV series called Moves, the studio said in a lawsuit. Moves, an Aurora, Illinois, dance ...

TiVo Inc., the pioneer of digital video recorders, won a court ruling to prevent EchoStar Communications Corp. from selling devices that infringe its patents. EchoStar persuaded a U.S. appeals court to put a temporary hold on the order that requires ...

Waddell & Reed Financial, a U.S. money manager with $45 billion in assets, was ordered to pay former parent Torchmark Corp. $7.4 million to resolve a tax dispute. The ruling by an arbitration panel relates to how Kansas state taxes ...

Restaurant owners could not retaliate against employees who complained internally that the establishment’s tip-pooling policy violated state wage laws, even where the employees never brought their allegations before the state attorney general, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. The ...

Shopping for a group health insurer? The goal is to keep employees happy and healthy at premiums that won’t put your company in the poorhouse. With so many providers and plans to choose from, you might want to use the ...