2 Soft Drink Companies Settle Benzene Lawsuit (The Kansas City Channel) WASHINGTON -- A Kansas mother declared partial victory Thursday in a lawsuit against the maker of BellyWashers, a popular children's drink. According to a proposed lawsuit settlement, two soft drink companies have stopped using ingredients that can form cancer-causing benzene. [News Source]

City, contractors to pay $1 million in dumping lawsuit (WREG-TV Memphis) KNOXVILLE, Tenn. The city of Knoxville and its contractors have agreed to pay about one (M) million dollars to settle a lawsuit. [News Source]

BP Says U.S. Chemicals Plant Lawsuit Not About Safety (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc said a lawsuit filed by Flint Hills Resources LLC, a U.S. petrochemical company, over the condition of a $225 million chemicals plant sold to Flint Hills is a contract dispute and not related to its safety record. [News Source]

Ruling keeps wrongful death lawsuit in NC courts (WIS-TV Columbia) A federal appeals court in Richmond Thursday ruled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by families of four slain Blackwater guards will remain in North Carolina courts. [News Source]

Abraham Fruchter & Twersky LLP Announces That a Securities Class Action Lawsuit Has Been Filed Against Parlux (SYS-CON Media) A class action lawsuit has been filed in theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of Florida againstParlux Fragrances Incorporated ('Parlux' or the 'Company') (NASDAQ: PARL).The complaint alleges that the Company's insiders took advantage ofmaterially misleading statements to sell millions of dollars of Parluxstock to unsuspecting members of the investing public. The claims [News Source]

Internet Archive settles lawsuit against Wayback Machine (CNET) Blog: The Internet Archive is off the hook in a lawsuit in which it was accused of negligence for allowing old Web pages to be viewed... [News Source]

Fears Growing Lawsuit Could Release Prisoners (CBS 3 Philadelphia) There are fears that a lawsuit aimed at easing overcrowding at Philadelphia prisons could lead to the release of inmates. Walt Hunter Reports [News Source]

Three Lawyers Accused Of Taking Excessive Fees In Fen-Phen Lawsuit Suspended By Kentucky Bar (WLEX-TV Lexington) (AP) -- Three attorneys have been temporarily suspended from practicing law in Kentucky because of questions about the way they divided a $200 million settlement from a fen-phen lawsuit. [News Source]

State files lawsuit against Tampa Bay company for violating ‘do not call’ law (Sun-Sentinel) The state has filed a lawsuit against a Tampa Bay area telemarketing company for violating Florida's 'Do not call' law, the office of Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services announced Thursday. [News Source]

Biovail files lawsuit against FDA over generics (CBC) Drug manufacturer Biovail Corp. said Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration related to the approval process for competitors' generic versions of its drugs. [News Source]