Judge OKs settlement in Kmart lawsuit (The Providence Journal) A federal judge in Michigan this week approved a settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed against a group of former Kmart Corp. executives, including one with ties to Rhode Island. [News Source]

Lawsuit seeks ban on smoking around apartment complex (San Francisco Chronicle) The father of a 5-year-old asthmatic girl has sued the apartment complex where the family lives in an attempt to stop residents from smoking in common areas. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Superior Court, alleges that second-hand smoke from common... [News Source]

Black, Hollinger Win Partial Dismissal of Lawsuit (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Conrad Black and the newspaper publisher he once led, Hollinger International Inc., won dismissal of most of a shareholder lawsuit accusing the company of inflating circulation figures. [News Source]

Black, Hollinger Win Partial Dismissal of Lawsuit (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Conrad Black and the newspaper publisher he once led, Hollinger International Inc., won dismissal of most of a shareholder lawsuit accusing the company of deliberately misstated circulation figures. [News Source]

Nixon files lawsuit over computer waste dump (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Attorney General Jay Nixon on Thursday filed a lawsuit to clean up a computer waste dump near Rolla, calling the presence of thousands of old computer terminals a public nuisance and an illegal environmental hazard. [News Source]

12 Member Jury Selected in Michael Jackson Lawsuit (Fox News) The jury was selected for Michael Jackson's lawsuit. There are 12 members, three who believe Jackson is guilty of child molestation. [News Source]

Lawsuit Challenges New Medicaid Rule (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) WASHINGTON (AP) - A law that requires Medicaid beneficiaries to prove their citizenship before obtaining health benefits is unconstitutional and should not be allowed to take effect July 1, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday. Among the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Eddie Mae Binion, 72, of St. Louis, reports that she was given away as a child and raised by a great-grandmother. She [News Source]

Nick Nolte Settles Sex Lawsuit (Hollywood.com) The parents of a girl who was 15-years-old when she had sex at Nick Nolte's home have settled their lawsuit against the actor and his son. [News Source]

Lawsuit Filed In Deadly Soccer Team Bus Accident (KPRC Click2Houston.com via Yahoo! News) The first lawsuit in connection with a bus accident that killed two Beaumont soccer players has been filed, KPRC Local 2 reports. [News Source]

Lawsuit challenges new Medicaid rule (AP via Yahoo! News) A law that requires Medicaid beneficiaries to prove their citizenship before obtaining health benefits is unconstitutional and should not be allowed to take effect July 1, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday. [News Source]