Court orders end to nursing student’s lawsuit against Ark. State (FOX 16 Little Rock)

A federal appeals court Thursday directed a lower court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a nursing student dropped from an Arkansas State University anesthesia program last year.

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Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: New Lawsuit for Restaurateur (New York Times) For the second time this month, the restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten, left, has been sued over workers’ wages and the division of tips. The allegations, in a lawsuit filed yesterday in Federal District Court, involve Mr. Vongerichten’s flagship restaurant, Jean-Georges, at 1 Columbus Circle, as well as Spice Market, on West 13th Street near Ninth Avenue, and Perry Street, near Washington ... [News Source]

Billionaire Stokes’s Seven Loses C7 Sports Lawsuit (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) July 27 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Kerry Stokes's Seven Network Ltd. lost a lawsuit alleging Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and others colluded to win Australian football broadcast rights, forcing the closure of his C7 sports channel. [News Source]

U.S. backs lawsuit against Wayne (The Record) Federal justice officials are backing a lawsuit by an Albanian Muslim group that claims the township discriminated against it by trying to take its property even as it sought to build a mosque in town. [News Source]

Lawsuit: Cops attacked men (Chicago Sun-Times) A federal lawsuit filed Thursday accuses a group of police officers of attacking four men during a traffic dispute, including one who tried to stop the beatings. [News Source]

BofA Seeks to Dismiss ABN AMRO Lawsuit (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Bank of America Corp. on Thursday asked a U.S. District Court in New York to dismiss its breach of contract lawsuit against ABN Amro Holding Co., the Dutch Bank from which it plans to purchase Chicago's LaSalle Bank Corp. [News Source]

Coke’s lawsuit against Pepsi dismissed (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by Coca-Cola that charged rival PepsiCo with patent infringement on a collapsible bag that dispenses syrup for fountain sodas. It was the third such lawsuit Atlanta-based Coca-Cola has brought against PepsiCo or its affiliates in the past six years. Judge Richard Story of the U.S. District Court in Atlanta issued the decision Wednesday. "It confirmed what we ... [News Source]

Bank of America seeks to dismiss ABN AMRO lawsuit (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Bank of America Corp. said on Thursday it asked a Manhattan federal judge to dismiss its lawsuit against ABN AMRO Holding NV seeking to block the Dutch bank from trying to sell its LaSalle Bank unit to other buyers. [News Source]

Green party leader sticks by Agent Orange study comments despite possible lawsuit (CP via Yahoo! Canada News)

FREDERICTON (CP) - Green party Leader Elizabeth May says despite the threat of a possible lawsuit, she won’t retract comments she made about a report on the health effects of Agent Orange and other defoliants at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in New Brunswick.

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Lawsuit: Cops Beat Men For Yelling About Driving (CBS 2 Chicago) Four Chicago Police officers are accused in a federal lawsuit filed today of beating four men who yelled and gestured at them when their unmarked squad car allegedly nearly hit them in the Uptown neighborhood. [News Source]