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Letter to New Chevron CEO, John Watson: You Have an Opportunity to Resolve Human Tragedy in Ecuador

Han Shan | Posted 12.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Texaco, Corporations, Big Oil, Contamination, Ecuador, Oil, John Watson, Amazon Watch, Chevron, Corporate Greed, Indigenous People, Lawsuit, Amazon, Green News

This letter references a confidential corporate memo that provides shocking insight into the reckless practices employed by Texaco (now Chevron) in Ecuador.

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Albertsons Bias Lawsuit: Chain To Pay $8.5 Million For Denver Warehouse Discrimination

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 12.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Colorado, Albertsons, Bias, Lawsuit, Denver News

DENVER — The Albertson's LLC grocery chain will pay $8.9 million to 168 black and Hispanic workers who said they were subjected to racial taunts...

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The North Face files lawsuit against parody company South Butt

AP | Posted 12.14.2009 | Denver

Read More: South Butt, Jimmy Winkelmann, St. Louis Teen, Parody, Lawsuit, North Face, Denver News

ST. LOUIS — The North Face Apparel Corp. is suing a small suburban St. Louis-area company called The South Butt and the teenager who started it....

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Geisy Arruda Sues Brazilian University Over Miniskirt Expulsion (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 12.12.2009 | World

Read More: Geisy Arruda Incident, Geisy Arruda Dress, Arruda Mini Dress, Geisy Arruda, Lawsuit, Suit, Geisy Arruda Photo, Suing, Geisy Arruda Expelled, Geisy Arruda Video, World News

RIO DE JANEIRO -- A Brazilian university student expelled for causing an uproar while wearing a pink miniskirt has sued her school. Geisy Arruda asks...

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Oakland Pays Cops $1.75 Million To Get Dressed

San Francisco Chronicle | Posted 12.11.2009 | Home

Read More: Oakland, Donning and Doffing, Uniform, Don and Doff, Get Dressed, Police Uniform, Police, Oakland Police, Oakland PD, Lawsuit, City of Oakland, Home News

The city of Oakland is expected to pay $1.75 million in legal fees and will offer vacation time and money to police officers who claimed in a lawsuit ...

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Seeds of Life: Beta Vulgaris (VIDEO)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 12.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Beta Vulgaris, Usda, Rice, Aphis, Bayer AG, Contamination, Willamette Valley, Frank Morton, Genetically Engineered Foods, Seeds, Chard, Sugarbeets, Gmo, Lawsuit, Green News

This is the second installment of an ongoing series titled Seeds of Life. Frank Morton, an organic seed breeder from Philomath, Oregon, shares his concerns over the threat of contamination.

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Diane Schuler Taconic Crash Victims Suffered Terror, Pain: Lawsuit

AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 12.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Michael Bastardi, NY Wrong-Way Crash, Taconic Crash, Diane Schuler, NY Parkway Wrong-Way Crash, Lawsuit, Guy Bastardi, Schuler Lawsuit, New York News

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Two victims of the wrong-way crash that killed eight people on a New York highway suffered terror and pain before they died...

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Brooke Astor's son: I'm too sick to be imprisoned

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 12.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Prison Sentence, New York, Francis X. Morrissey, Prison, New York City, Brooke Astor, Al Roker, Whoopi Goldberg, Anthony Marshall, Lawsuit, New York News

NEW YORK — Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son has turned to friends in high places – including Whoopi Goldberg and Al Roker – to help hi...

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Government Sued Over Social Media Surveillance Tactics

ReadWriteWeb | Sarah Perez | Posted 12.03.2009 | Technology

Read More: Online Surveillance, Twitter, Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF Lawsuit, Youtube, Facebook, Myspace, Lawsuit, Eff, Technology News

Consumer watchdog group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has initiated a lawsuit against multiple U.S. government agencies for failure to disclose...

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Oil Giant Chevron Accused of "Extortion" on Capitol Hill

Han Shan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Corporations, Big Oil, Lobbying, Ecuador, Lobbyists, Oil, Chevron, Corporate Greed, Barack Obama, Lawsuit, Indigenous People, Amazon, Green News

Chevron is making an extraordinary lobbying effort to evade responsibility for its massive toxic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon. In solidarity with all communities where Big Oil puts profit ahead of people, we must say "no more."

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Congress: Protect American Writers and Publishers from Being Sued Overseas

Judy Platt | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books

Read More: First Amendment Rights, Libel Tourism, Free Speech, Congress, Brazilian Law, Writing, Defamation, Brazil, Lawsuit, England, Funding Evil, Saudi Arabia, Libel, New York Times, Publishers, Air Traffic, Mahfouz, Books News

Your book's been published in the United States for an American audience. Someone who's mentioned in the book doesn't like what you've written and sues you for libel, but he doesn't sue you here, where the book has been published.

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No Doubt Sues Activision, Avatar Sings to a Different Song

Patti Millett | Posted 11.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Gwen Stefani, Karaoke, Mick Jagger, Avatar, Activision, No Doubt, Guitar Hero, Lawsuit, Entertainment News

While No Doubt did grant Activision a license to use their likenesses in its game, Band Hero, the band is not happy that Gwen Stefani can be made to sing "Honky Tonk Woman" -- in a male voice.

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Big Pharma's Crime Spree: Drug Makers Pushing Products For Unapproved Uses

Bloomberg | David Evans | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Alzheimer's Disease, Unapproved Uses, Doj, Drug Marketers, Criminal Lawsuit, Eli Lilly, Regulation, Fda, The Fed, Lawsuit, Pharma, Nimh, Jama, Department of Justice, Kickbacks, Federal Reserve, Fed, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Warner Lambert, Marketing, Warner-Lambert, Neurontin, Thalidomide, Depression, Bankruptcy, Off-Label Promotion, Zyprexa, Bextra, Suicide, Lilly Pfizer, Pharmacia and Upjohn, Felonies, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Bristol Myers Squibb, Morning Sickness, Drug Regulation, Profits, Health, Drug Sales, Corporate Greed, Atom Strategic Consulting, Birth Defects, Zyvox, Business News

Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S. companies that have paid $7 billion in penalties after promoting drugs for uses not approved by the FDA. This u...

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When Hollywood Calls Morals Into Question: A Lesson From the Book of Jon

Amber Holley | Posted 11.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Infidelity, Jon Gosselin, Marriage Infidelity, Lawsuit, Kate Gosselin, Tlc, Jon and Kate Affair, Jon and Kate Gosselin Divorce, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Entertainment News

However regressed our mores might be from years past, I think most folks know amoral conduct when they see it, and sorry, Discovery Talent, this ain't it.

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Barnes And Noble Lawsuit: Spring Design Sues Over Nook eReader

Mashable | Posted 11.03.2009 | Technology

Read More: Alex E-Reader, Ereaders, Ereader, Barnes & Noble, B&N, Barnes & Noble Sued, E-Reader, Lawsuit, NDA Violation, Barnes and Noble, Nook, Spring Design Spring Design Lawsuit, Spring, Spring Design Barnes Noble, Technology News

Spring Design, makers of the Alex dual-screen eReader, are suing Barnes & Noble over their Nook eBook reader, another dual-screen device announced the...

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Chevron's Man in Ecuador: Felon, Drug-Trafficker, and Liar, Oh My!

Han Shan | Posted 10.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Chevron, Green News, Oil, Corporate Greed, Indigenous People, Chevron Ecuador, Lawsuit, Amazon, Corruption, Big Oil, Corporations, Green News

To defend itself in a major environmental lawsuit in Ecuador, it appears that American oil giant Chevron is employing methods -- and people -- that are as dirty as the toxic waste pits it left scattered across the rainforest floor.

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How Trudie Styler Is Winning Hearts and Minds at ... Chevron?

Michael Brune | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Chevron, Oil Spill, Ecuador, Trudie Styler, Oil, Climate Change, Chevron Ecuador, Lawsuit, Oil Companies, Crude-Movie-Review, Washington Post, Green News

As Joe Berlinger's Crude continues to rack up favorable reviews, a captivating email back-and-forth has been revealed between Trudie Styler and executives at Chevron.

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AP Files Lawsuit Over Video Of Grenade Detonation At Wisconsin Prison

AP | SCOTT BAUER | Posted 10.26.2009 | Media

MADISON, Wis. ? The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Monday against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections seeking the release of a video that shows ...

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Guantanamo Bay: College Division

Stu Kreisman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Butler University, Internet, First Amendment, College, Bloggers, Bushies, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Jess Zimmerman, Virginia Tech Massacre, Virginia Tech, Censorship, Lawsuit, Dick Cheney, Media News

Is a school entitled to discipline a student? Of course -- if a crime is committed. But let's get real here. We're talking about freedom of speech on the Internet.

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The Big Dawg Seeks Big Bucks From Electronic Arts for Unauthorized Use of His Identity

Gregory Gabriel | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Sports, Electronic Arts, Nfl, National Football League, Identity Theft, Big Dawg, Football, Cleveland Browns, Lawsuit, Media News

Cleveland Browns fan, John Big Dawg Thompson, recently sued Electronic Arts video game makers because their Madden NFL 09 contains an image of a fan dressed in a costume resembling his own.

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Student Blogger Shut Down and Sued by Butler University Over Free Speech

Stu Kreisman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: College Students, Butler University, Alexander Hamilton, First Amendment, Crime, Bloggers, Jess Zimmerman, Virginia Tech, Barack Obama, Lawsuit, Freedom of Speech, University, Internet, College, Virginia Tech Massacre, Censorship, Benjamin Franklin, Media News

Jess Zimmerman is a junior at Butler University. Last year he wrote criticisms of Butler's administration in an anonymous blog. We now have the first case of a university suing a student over online free speech.

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A Bad Deal for the MTA and Its Riders

Gene Russianoff | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Nyc, Subway, Atlantic Yards, Real Estate, Mta, Development, Lawsuit, Straphangers Campaign, New Jersey Nets, Forest City Ratner, Brooklyn, Vanderbilt Yards, New York News

NYPIRG's Straphangers Campaign joined in a lawsuit this week objecting to the rotten deal that the MTA struck this past June for the rights to build over the Vanderbilt Yards in Brooklyn.

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Chris Rock's Good Hair Gets Tangled in Suit -- One Lawyer's Thoughts

Chad Fitzgerald | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Chris Rock, Lawsuit, Chris Rock Good Hair, Copyright Infringement, Hbo Films, California, My Nappy Roots, Plagiarism, Intellectual Property, Regina Kimbell, Entertainment News

Regina Kimbell sued Chris Rock last week, claiming that Rock's new documentary about black hair, Good Hair, copies her 2006 documentary My Nappy Roots.

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How to Live On $0 a Day: Bailouts for the Rest of Us

Lesley Stern | Posted 10.15.2009 | Comedy

It doesn't really matter why you need the money, all you know is that life as you know it will cease to exist if you don't get your hands on a big chunk of cash. Yesterday.

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Too Many Lawsuits? My Foot

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Malpractice, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Medical Malpractice, Lawsuit, Politics News

Republicans seek to limit medical malpractice lawsuits. But actually, for every patient who sues, there are several who should but don't.

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