The unions argued that the law violated the U.S. Constitution by taking away workers' rights to bargain and organize, and discriminated against certain public-sector employees while exempting others, such as firefighters and police officers.
Plaintiffs challenging the constitutionality of the heavily disputed 2012 National Defense Authorization Act appeared to make some progress during a daylong hearing in a federal court in New York. Even the judge questioned the government's inability to define terms such as associated forces.
Nike received a temporary restraining order Wednesday that prohibits Reebok from selling or producing Tim Tebow-related products.
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world’s biggest database software company, settled a price-fixing lawsuit against Micron Technology (NYSE: MU) for $58 million.
A California woman filed a lawsuit in federal court there, claiming McDonald's played a prominent role in turning her from a burger jocky to a lady of the evening. Yes--the allegation is that McyD's turns nice girls to turning tricks.
Last September, Anna Brown, a homeless woman, died while in a jail cell after refusing to leave a St. Louis hospital. The woman was there seeking treatment for a sprained ankle and was arrested when she would not leave the building.
A class action lawsuit seeking a preliminary injunction against the military detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act will be heard in a New York federal court.
Owners of Apple iPhone 4 received a legal notice on Thursday from iPhone4Settlement.com with information about their eligibility and how to obtain a $15 cash settlement or free bumper case from the Antennagate scandal after the release of the iPhone 4, when users reported reception issues caused by the antenna. But who is eligible for the settlement refund and how does one go about to obtain it?
The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Wednesday were: Cleantech Solutions International, Loral Space & Communications, Ultra Clean Holdings, Charming Shoppes, Horizon Pharma and QuickLogic Corp. The top after-market NASDAQ losers were: Central European Distribution, Saba Software, Oncothyreon, Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Brightcove Inc and Arena Pharmaceuticals.
Facebook (NYSE: FB) pledged to “vigorously defend” itself against claims it infringed upon 10 critical patents held by Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 2 search engine.
Nike has filed a lawsuit against Reebok selling unauthorized Tim Tebow Jets jerseys.
Facebook has formally asked a federal judge to dismiss its ongoing case against Paul Ceglia, citing a mountain of evidence that would prove Ceglia's claims were fraudulent. Attorneys for Facebook called the lawsuit opportunistic and fraudulent, while Ceglia's attorneys claim their client, seeking half-ownership of Facebook, deserves his day in court.
A major U.S. airline lobbying group on Tuesday ditched a private lawsuit challenging the European Union's recently-implemented carbon tax for airlines using the trading bloc's airports, calling on the Obama administration and Congress to take up the charge.
It's not easy being an Internet business giant that everybody seems to want a piece of. Facebook found this out the hard way, as the world's No.1 social networking company warned away would-be investors, pending the outcome of a court case filed against it by Internet pioneer Yahoo this March.
After 4 months of jiggling, U.S. federal court has overruled Hasbro's petition to stop Asus from using Transformer Prime name in its Android tablet. The U.S. federal judge says that there is no dodgy marketing in name of the two products to confuse people.
Joe the Plumber, whose real name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, has lost the lawsuit he filed against three Ohio Job and Family Services officials.
Lauren Scruggs, the model and fashion writer who survived a tragic accident walking into an airplane propeller back in December, has rejected a $200,000 settlement offer and is suing the insurer of the airplane.
Skepticism seemed to inform numerous pointed comments from three of the court's four staunch conservatives as the justices spent a second day hearing a challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
The Society for General Microbiology's Spring Conference currently being held in Dublin between 26-29 March proposed the use of viruses called bacteriophages to wipe out bacterial strains that are resistant to the current crop of antibiotics. In a proactive stance, the FDA has been warned legally to
to act on its long-drawn 35-year-old ruling that restricts the use of popular antibiotics in farms food.
The justices were skeptical that an 1867 law barring lawsuits that challenge taxes would bar them from hearing the health care law case, as the mandate requiring Americans to carry insurance is enforced with a tax penalty.
The justices Monday heard debate as to whether Americans can challenge the Affordable Care Act's insurance-purchase requirement even though that part of the law isn't scheduled to take effect until 2014.
Disagreement emerged on Sunday over the re-listing of an electronic stock exchange that suffered a high-profile crash last week, a breakdown that forced it to unwind its initial public offering of shares.
