Thursday October 11th 2007, 11:49 pm
A draft of a lawsuit presented to the city alleges sexual harassment by a captain in the police department and that the city manager failed to deal with the complaints leveled by four police officers and allegedly engaged in retaliatory measures against the officers.
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Lawsuit draft alleges retaliation by Monroe city manager against four police officers (Dayton Daily News)
$250,000 deal closes BCC bias lawsuit (Miami Herald)
Thursday October 11th 2007, 10:43 pm
,000 deal closes BCC bias lawsuit The Board of Trustees for Broward Community College unanimously approved a $250,000 settlement Thursday for an ousted instructor who won a religious discrimination case against the school in March.
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Lawsuit: US Airways discriminated against blind man (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Thursday October 11th 2007, 9:25 pm
A blind Philadelphian has sued US Airways for discrimination, alleging that flight attendants ignored him after his plane landed here and that he injured his head when he tried to make it off the plane by himself. In a lawsuit docketed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, singer-songwriter Wilson Charles, 28, charged that airline employees began treating him rudely in West Palm ...
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iPhone lawsuit seeks over $1 billion in damages (Macworld.com via Yahoo! News)
Thursday October 11th 2007, 8:05 pm
Lawyers filed a class action lawsuit against Apple and AT&T seeking $1.2 billion in damages because the iPhone is locked to AT&T’s wireless network. The suit also notes that Apple will not allow unauthorized applications on the iPhone.
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Fresno State, Milutinovich settle lawsuit (The Fresno Bee)
Thursday October 11th 2007, 7:15 pm
Diane Milutinovich and Fresno State have reached a settlement in the former associate athletic director's sexual discrimination lawsuit against the university, lawyers for Milutinovich announced Thursday afternoon in a news conference at Fresno County Superior Court.
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Jury finds Wyeth liable in drugs lawsuit (AP via Yahoo! News)
Thursday October 11th 2007, 6:16 pm
A jury levied a $134.5 million judgment against pharmaceutical giant Wyeth in a lawsuit filed by three Nevada women who claimed the company's hormone replacement drugs caused their breast cancer.
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Group Asks Court to Allow Lawsuit Against Bad Check Collector (Canadian Business)
Thursday October 11th 2007, 4:53 pm
Shannon Mccaffrey October 11, 2007 - 4:11 p.m. ATLANTA (AP) - A company that works with authorities to help collect on bad checks told a federal court Thursday that its ties to government prosecutors make it immune from a lawsuit filed by a consumer group.
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Cisco division’s patent lawsuit settled (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Thursday October 11th 2007, 2:15 pm
IPG Photonics has settled a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Scientific-Atlanta, a division of Cisco Systems.
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Morgan Stanley settles lawsuit for $46M (AP via Yahoo! News)
Thursday October 11th 2007, 1:53 pm
A federal judge on Thursday approved a $46 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed by a group of women alleging gender discrimination by their employer, investment bank Morgan Stanley.
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FC Barcelona wins lawsuit against Arsenal midfielder Merida (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
Thursday October 11th 2007, 1:08 pm
BARCELONA, Spain - FC Barcelona won a 3.2-million euro (C$4.55 million) lawsuit against Arsenal's Fran Merida, the club said Thursday.
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