Suit claims pigopolists wanted to shake down 10-year-old
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Intimidation scheme included impersonating grandma An unemployed single mom with health problems has renewed her legal challenge of the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA), with unseemly new details, including accusations the cartel's goons of trying to contact the woman's 10-year-old daughter at school by impersonating her grandmother on the phone.â¦
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Obesity has been a factor in at least 20 child protection cases, the BBC learns, as some doctors view it as neglect.
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Regulators have been accused of "chickening out" of banning additives linked to hyperactivity in children.
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Almost 15 years after McDonald's brought a taste of America to impoverished Russians, a 37-year-old Muscovite has hit the firm with a U.S.-style lawsuit over a spilled cup of coffee, Russian media has reported.
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He's now got a human name &#151; Matthew Hiasl Pan &#151; but he's having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take their challenge to Austria's Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal.
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By JIM FITZGERALD  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A 16-year-old boy being sued by five record companies accusing him of online music piracy accused the recording industry on Tuesday of violating antitrust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats.
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A look at the legal issues in the battle between Missy Chase Lapine and Jessica Seinfeld over their rival cookbooks on how to hide pureed vegetables in children's food.
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The public is being asked to help the government come up with a 10-year plan to improve children's lives.
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An ultra-sonic device used to disperse rowdy teenagers is Tuesday being challenged by the Children's Commissioner who claims that the high-pitched sound causes discomfort and so infringes upon the human rights of young people.
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An Alabama high school coach says he was just trying to get equality for his girls' basketball team when he complained about its treatment. His legal battle to regain his job will reach the Supreme Court at the end of the month.
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WEST POINT, Miss. - When pigs fly, indeed. Kevin Pugh, 20, of Cedar Bluff, has been fined $279 for tossing a pig over the counter at the Holiday Inn Express in West Point on Nov. 12. Pugh pleaded guilty Tuesday in city court to a charge of disturbing the peace.  West Point Police Lt.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc is facing a number of lawsuits from U.S. parents of children and adolescents given its antidepressant Paxil, following claims the company suppressed data showing the drug increased suicidal tendencies in young people.
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Georgia's top court ordered the release on Friday of a youth sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old in a case that sparked a national campaign on his behalf.
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Leading food manufacturers stand accused of using tactics to push foods high in fat, sugar and salt to children.
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Justice has 10 days to decide on Madeleine files amid claims and confusion over DNA.
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A Russian court on Wednesday held hearings in an unprecedented lawsuit brought by a 15-year-old student who says being taught the theory of evolution in school violates her rights and insults her religious beliefs.
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Parmalat, the bankrupt Italian dairy concern, sued its two former auditing firms for $10 billion in state court in Chicago on Wednesday, saying they should have detected the massive fraud that caused Parmalat to go under.