FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A former smoker who just won a $300 million verdict in Florida against Philip Morris USA has pulled out of a news conference about the case.
Lawyers for 61-year-old Cindy Naugle will talk at the Friday news ...Read More
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A former smoker who just won a $300 million verdict in Florida against Philip Morris USA has pulled out of a news conference about the case.
Lawyers for 61-year-old Cindy Naugle will talk at the Friday ...Read More
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Sports|
Nov 19, 2009
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has agreed that South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800 meters world title, the country's sports ministry said Thursday.
The 18-year-old Semenya, who stormed to victory in August's world ...Read More
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A suicide bomber self-detonated Thursday morning outside the gates of a court compound in the heavily guarded administrative heart of the Pakistani city of Peshawar, the seventh deadly explosion there in less than two weeks.
At least ...Read More
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U.K.|
Nov 18, 2009
MI5, MI6 and the police will be able to withhold evidence from defendants and their lawyers in civil cases for the first time, the high court ruled today.
In a move that has widespread implications for open justice, Mr Justice Silber ...Read More
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U.S.|
Nov 17, 2009
BALTIMORE — Two of the seven charges against Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon are being dropped.
A judge dismissed the charges Tuesday during the mayor's theft trial. Prosecutors claim Dixon used gift cards intended for the needy for personal shopping sprees.
The judge ...Read More
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SciTech|
Nov 17, 2009
Sure, Verizon's doubled down on the 3G map ads in response to AT&T's false advertising lawsuit, but eventually the company's lawyers had to file a response and, well, ain't nobody backing down in this one. Here's the freaking introduction:AT&T ...Read More
LOS ANGELES — Every lawsuit filed or even threatened under a California law aimed at electing more minorities to local offices — and all of the roughly $4.3 million from settlements so far — can be traced to just two ...Read More
(CNN) -- Parents in last month's notorious "balloon boy" case are expected to plead guilty on Friday, the pair's lawyers said.
The Larimer County district attorney's office Thursday said Richard Heene has been charged with one count of attempting to influence ...Read More
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U.S.|
Nov 13, 2009
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The Colorado couple accused of pulling a spectacular hoax by reporting their son was aboard a runaway balloon is set to avoid more spectacle — and a trial — by entering pleas to charges that could ...Read More