Suit Blaming Automakers Over Gases Is Dismissed
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A federal judge ruled that the courts do not have the authority or the expertise to decide injury lawsuits concerning global warming.
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California sues carmakers over gas emissions    LOS ANGELES, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- California has sued the world 's largest automobile manufacturers, seeking billions of dollars for environmental damage caused by gas emissions.
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A federal judge in Sacramento upheld a California law regulating greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, another in a string of legal defeats for the auto industry this year.
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A federal judge threw out a key class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over flooding from a levee breach after Hurricane Katrina.
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SACRAMENTO -- California's attorney general yesterday sued the six largest US and Japanese automakers, including GM, Ford , and Toyota , alleging that emissions from their vehicles have harmed health, damaged the environment, and cost the state millions to combat the effects.
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By LAURA KURTZMAN SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The six largest automakers asked a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit by California that accuses them of harming human health and the environment by producing vehicles that contribute to global warming.
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SEOUL, South Korea -- A South Korean court dismissed a lawsuit Friday from a man seeking damages for claims that years of drinking Coca-Cola caused decay to nearly all his teeth, according to a news report.
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The auto industry files a motion to dismiss that pesky state lawsuit claiming automakers created a public nuisance by selling cars that emit greenhouse gases. A protracted legal battle is likely in the offing. In Autopia.
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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a unit of Boeing Co that charged the firm helped fly terrorism suspects abroad to secret prisons.
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A Chinese firm drops a lawsuit against two journalists who claimed labour abuses on its iPod assembly line.
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Virgin&#39;s French arm saw the antitrust suit it filed against Apple (yes, Apple, not Microsoft) dismissed by the French Competition Council.
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A New York federal judge on Monday tossed out a lawsuit by a Florida man against the company behind the Atkins low-carb diet that he alleged caused his cholesterol to skyrocket and necessitated an angioplasty.
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Reports that CS gas may have contributed to the death of a police officer are dismissed by the Metropolitan Police.
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A federal judge in Vermont yesterday rejected an attempt by automakers to block individual states from adopting their own standards for limiting greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.
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FRESNO, Calif. -- Automobile manufacturers sued on Tuesday to block the world&#39;s toughest vehicle emissions standards, adopted by California regulators in September to cut greenhouse gases.
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WASHINGTON -- An Environmental Protection Agency report charging that the agency undermined its own lawsuits against air polluters by changing key regulations was praised Friday by environmentalists and condemned by industry groups and the EPA itself.
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A federal judge on Wednesday  dismissed a key element of insurer GEICO's trademark  infringement case against online search engine Google Inc.  GOOG.O.