Pet Food Company Fires Back Over Lawsuit (KGO-TV Bay Area) The landmark lawsuit targeting a Chinese company and pet food makers in this country for the tainted pet food crisis caused some ripples today. [News Source]

Rabbit Transit drivers file civil lawsuit (The York Dispatch) Thirty Rabbit Transit employees have filed a civil lawsuit seeking compensation for what they say are unpaid wages from the county's public transportation authority. [News Source]

Veoh files pre-emptive copyright lawsuit (The State) Online video sharing site Veoh has pre-emptively sued Universal Music Group, asking a federal judge to prevent the giant music label from filing its own copyright infringement action. Veoh Networks Inc., based in San Diego, filed the federal lawsuit Thursday, asking a judge to declare that the company has no liability to Universal even if individuals upload videos to the Veoh site that may ... [News Source]

CNN Lawyers Want Duckett Family Lawsuit Dismissed (WGRZ-TV Buffalo) OCALA, Fla. (AP) -- Lawyers for CNN and Nancy Grace have asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses the TV host of pushing the mother of a missing toddler to suicide through aggressive questioning. [News Source]

Family of Helicopter Crash Victim Files Lawsuit (First Coast News)

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL — The family of a woman killed in a helicopter crash on the beach has filed a lawsuit.

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Judge Removes Ecuadorans From Chevron Lawsuit (CBS 5 Bay Area)

A federal judge expelled three Ecuadorean plaintiffs from a lawsuit against Chevron Corp. after concluding they lied when they claimed they or their relatives suffered from cancer caused by the oil giant’s operations in the South American country.

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Family Says Lawsuit Filed Without Its Permission (KOCO 5 Oklahoma City) A $5 million lawsuit filed against a construction company after a dump truck ran over a 14-year-old boy was filed without the family's permission, family members say Thursday. [News Source]

Lawsuit Filed Over FEMA Trailers (WISH-TV Indianapolis) By Pam Elliot INDIANAPOLIS - There are developments in the FEMA trailer upheaval that I-Team 8 exposed just last month. A lawsuit was filed in federal court in Louisiana this week. Hundreds of hurricane victims claim illness due to the way trailers were made in Indiana. [News Source]

Genzyme Settling Lawsuit for $64M (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Genzyme Corp. on Thursday said it has agreed in principle to pay $64 million to settle a class action lawsuit regarding the consolidation of the biotechnology company's tracking stock structure in 2003. [News Source]

‘Vista Capable’ lawsuit given go-ahead (MacNN) A Seattle court had ruled that two complaints against Microsoft's Windows Vista marketing campaign can proceed to court. District Court judge Marsha Pechman denied a Microsoft dismissal petition, which claimed that plaintiffs Dianne Kelley and Kenneth Hansen lack the standing necessary for a lawsuit. The two have accused Microsoft of deceiving cu... [News Source]