CARES drops lawsuit against City of Marco Island (WBBH) A lawsuit against the City of Marco Island for allegedly endangering the public with asbestos has been dropped. Many people have been left to wonder what it means for Marco Island residents. Some say that it depends on who you ask. [News Source]

Lawsuit claims hospital, doctor performed unnecessary heart procedures (WIS News 10 Columbia) (Hilton Head Island-AP) October 8, 2006 - A lawsuit filed in federal court against Hilton Head Regional Medical Center and a former cardiologist James D. Johnston alleges the hospital performed hundreds of medically unnecessary heart procedures from 1997 through 2000. [News Source]

Document Shows Microsoft May Have Helped SCO in Lawsuit (GigaLaw.com) A declaration in a long-running lawsuit between SCO Group Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. raises new questions about whether Microsoft Corp. or some of its executives indirectly assisted SCO's legal front against the Linux operating system. [News Source]

Lawsuit Filed by Wood County Family Sickened by Spinach (WTOL News 11) TOLEDO -- Lawyers have filed the first northwest Ohio lawsuit in the E.coli outbreak that's been traced to contaminated spinach. A Toledo-based law firm filed the suit in US District Court on behalf of a Wood County family, claiming a spinach salad sold by Natural Selection Foods made them sick. [News Source]

Sparks and Reno win federal lawsuit (Reno Gazette-Journal) A federal judge recently ruled in favor Sparks and Reno in a lawsuit charging police officers from both cities with violating the constitutional rights of bystanders during a drug raid. [News Source]

City of London pension fund caught in lawsuit against BP (Times Online) THE City of London Corporation has unwittingly gone to war with BP, one of the bluest of blue-chip companies. The Corporation’s £420 million pension scheme has been attached to a lawsuit filed by lawyers in the United States who are claiming negligence by BP’s board. [News Source]

Normal shooting lawsuit to end in settlement (Pantagraph) BLOOMINGTON -- A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a motorist who was shot and killed by a Normal police officer in 2002 will likely get settled today, a civil attorney and town official said Monday. [News Source]

Celina lawsuit says Pilot Point staged a land grab (The Celina Record) The City of Celina filed a lawsuit against the city of Pilot Point last June in Denton County District Court. [News Source]

Lawsuit filed over cat (KTVA Anchorage) A business owner in Palmer has filed a lawsuit to get her cat returned from a former employee. Catherine Fosselman says she handed Carl off to the employee, while she dealt with the after-effects of a fire that burned down her accounting practice. [News Source]

Lawsuit Filed Against McDonald’s Over French Fries (CBS 2 Los Angeles) A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of an autistic boy alleges that additives in McDonald's french fries aggravated his symptoms and caused him digestive problems. [News Source]