DC judge loses $54 mln lawsuit against cleaners
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A judge in the U.S. capital lost his $54 million lawsuit on Monday against a dry cleaner over a pair of misplaced pants and will have to pay the defendants' trial fees.
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A fired female broker has sued Morgan  Stanley MWD.N for alleged sex discrimination, barely four  months after the investment bank agreed to pay $54 million to  settle a landmark bias case.
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A federal judge has dismissed a $55 million lawsuit filed by former Drug Enforcement Administration agents against the movie studio that made "American Gangster," but said the film got its facts wrong at the end.
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WASHINGTON -- The District of Columbia risks losing federal funds because it has overpaid contractors almost $100 million for medical services, an audit found.
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The judge who sued his dry cleaning shop for $54 million (27 million pounds) over a lost pair of trousers said as the trial wrapped up on Wednesday that he would use any winnings he might get to encourage others to follow suit.
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A U.S. federal judge tossed out a lawsuit by California's attorney general on Monday seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from six automakers for damaging the state with climate-changing greenhouse gases.
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An antitrust lawsuit against the guardian of the ICANN is thrown out.
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A U.S. judge in New Orleans threw out a Vioxx victory for Merck, citing misrepresentation by a key company witness and clearing the way for a third trial in the case of a widow who charges that the painkiller caused her husband's fatal heart attack.
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A federal judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina
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WASHINGTON -- A judge ruled yesterday that no pair of pants is worth $54 million, rejecting a lawsuit that took a dry cleaner's promise of "Satisfaction Guaranteed" to its most litigious extreme.
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A judge in the U.S. capital pressed a $54 million lawsuit on Tuesday against a dry cleaning shop which he said violated consumer-protection laws when it lost his pants.
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A federal judge threw out a key class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina, saying that the agency failed to protect the city but that his hands were tied by the law.
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By LUBNA TAKRURI WASHINGTON - A judge ruled Monday in favor of a dry cleaner that was sued for $54 million over a missing pair of pants. The owners of Custom Cleaners did not violate the city's consumer protection law by failing to live up to Roy L.
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Will a judge throw out a lawsuit seeking millions in damages for the alleged mass transfer of customer calling records to the National Security Agency? The request for dismissal is complicated by recent admissions that corporations helped the anti-terrorism spying effort.
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A federal judge overturned a $50   million award handed down by a jury against Merck & Co. Inc.   MRK.N earlier this month in a case of a former FBI agent who   had blamed the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx for his heart attack.
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A judge who set bail at &#36;10,000 to &#36;50,000 for people charged with minor offenses such as loitering or bicycle violations has lost his job.
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A federal judge in Texas yesterday threw out a lawsuit against Halliburton Co. that had been brought by survivors and the families of those killed when a fuel convoy was assaulted by insurgents outside Baghdad in April 2004.