School Cellphone Ban Violates Rights of Parents, Lawsuit Says (New York Times) Parents in New York City, saying cellphones are helpful, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the city’s rule banning students from carrying cellphones in schools. [News Source]

Wisconsin to join lawsuit against computer chip makers (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Wisconsin is among 34 states that intend to file a multimillion-dollar price-fixing lawsuit against seven... [News Source]

Jury in Michael Jackson lawsuit finishes first day of deliberation; no verdict (WIS-TV Columbia) (Santa Monica, CA-AP) July 13, 2006 - The jury in a $1.5 million lawsuit against Michael Jackson has gone home for the day without reaching a verdict. [News Source]

Federman & Sherwood Announces That a Securities Class Action Lawsuit Has Been Filed Against Brooks Automation, Inc. (SYS-CON Media) On June 19, 2006, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Brooks Automation, Inc. . The complaint alleges violations of federal securities laws, Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5, including allegations of issuing a series of material misrepresentations to the market which had the [News Source]

Lawsuit targets accuracy of electronic voting machines (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) The state of Georgia should stop relying on electronic voting machines because there's no guarantee they accurately record votes, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Fulton County. Among its claims, the lawsuit by a group of activists contends the state's touch-screen voting machines violate state constitutional guarantees that elections be conducted by secret ballot. Also, by simply [News Source]

Alliance settles lawsuit after 21 years (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) Alliance Semiconductor Corp. said Thursday it settled a 21-year-old lawsuit with Prabhakara Balla and Trit Tek Research Ltd. [News Source]

Alliance settles lawsuit after 21 years (BizJournals) Alliance Semiconductor Corp. said Thursday it settled a 21-year-old lawsuit with Prabhakara Balla and Trit Tek Research Ltd. [News Source]

Lawsuit challenges massive spotted owl ‘habitat’ (WorldNet Daily) The U.S. government broke the law when it designated more than eight million acres in the western United States as "critical habitat" for the Mexican spotted owl, charges a lawsuit filed today by Pacific Legal Foundation. [News Source]

Feds call lawsuit over phone records a wrong number (ABC 7 El Paso) CHICAGO A federal attorney says a lawsuit aimed at stopping A-T-and-T from giving phone records to government terrorist hunters without legal authorization is a wrong number... [News Source]

Dan Rather mulling CBS lawsuit (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather says he has considered filing a lawsuit against the network where he had worked for 44 years. [News Source]