Lawsuit filed for McCaskill staffer killed in plane crash (KSHB-TV Kansas City) ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The family of a woman who died in a July skydiving plane crash has filed a lawsuit over the crash. The lawsuit was filed by the mother of Melissa Berridge, a 38-year-old St. Louis woman and former compliance director for Claire McCaskill's campaign. [News Source]

Microsoft Lawsuit (WHO-TV 13 Des Moines) Microsoft founder Bill Gates is on the witness for a class action lawsuit on behalf of thousands of Iowans against his company. [News Source]

No Ink in ‘Us Weekly’ Prompts Lawsuit (NPR) All Things Considered , September 12, 2006 · Robert Siegel talks with David Hauslaib, editor of the New York-based media gossip blog Jossip. He'll talk about the lawsuit filed by a Hollywood boutique, in which the store alleges that the gossip magazine Us Weekly is intentionally hurting the store's business by omitting any mention in its pages. [News Source]

Lawsuit Challenges Use of Federal Aid for Bible-Based Counseling (New York Times) The lawsuit is another challenge to the Bush administration?s efforts to channel money for social services to religious organizations. [News Source]

Lawsuit alleges Rubbermaid withheld plant closing details (WHO-TV 13 Des Moines) CENTERVILLE, Iowa Four employees of the Newell Rubbermaid Incorporated plant in Centerville have filed a lawsuit claiming they were falsely assured that the plant... [News Source]

Flagger files lawsuit against Chad Stuart (Sun Valley Central) A construction zone flagger, who claims Hailey resident Chad Stuart struck her with a vehicle he was driving, has filed a civil lawsuit against the former British pop rock star. [News Source]

Lawsuit Accuses Bar Of Weighing Female Workers (CBS 2 New York) Two ex-waitresses at an East Side bar are suing their former employer, having filed a multimillion-dollar sex-harassment lawsuit, accusing their former bosses of ordering female employees to be weighed as part of a scheme to keep track of their weight. Alexandria Lipton, 25, and Kristen McRedmond, 27, filed suit in New York Supreme Court against the Sutton Place Bar and Restaurant on Second [News Source]

3rd Lawsuit Filed in Skydiving Crash (AP via Yahoo! Finance) A third lawsuit was filed Tuesday in an eastern Missouri skydiving plane crash that killed six people, this one by the mother of a former member of Claire McCaskill's U.S. Senate campaign staff. [News Source]

Lawsuit Against Talisman Energy Dismissed (SYS-CON Media) A lawsuit filed against Talisman Energy Inc. (TSX: TLM) (NYSE: TLM) in 2001 by the Presbyterian Church of Sudan and others under the Alien Tort Claims Act in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has been dismissed. [News Source]

Idaho lawsuit accuses Karl Malone of bribery, intimidation (The Salt Lake Tribune) Posted: 2:43 PM- BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Former Utah Jazz forward Karl Malone is accused in a lawsuit of offering a former business partner in eastern Idaho a $25,000 bribe to take the blame for an illegal elk hunting trip. [News Source]