Blog Posts in February, 2011
Posted on Feb 24, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
In a case that could test law enforcement's ability to identify and monitor potential terrorists inside the United States, an Islamic organization has sued the FBI for the actions of a paid spy who ...
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Posted on Feb 24, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
Patrick Vandam was a competitor. From participating on the Air Force’s swimming and diving team to scarfing down 25 hotdogs in 10 minutes at the Nathan’s Famous Hotdog Eating Contest in Coney Island, ...
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Posted on Feb 21, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A top Brooklyn prosecutor has been slammed with a $150 million federal lawsuit accusing him of engaging in widespread pattern of misconduct in an effort to railroad an innocent man for the murder of a ...
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Posted on Feb 21, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A former high school athlete has won a $5 million libel verdict against the Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk. A jury ruled Friday that Kevin Webb was libeled by a December 2009 article that said ...
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Posted on Feb 16, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A St. Cloud man is accusing a south Orange County company of negligence after one of its "peeler machines" cut off his penis in an industrial accident last year. Edgardo Toucet Echevarria, ...
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Posted on Feb 14, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
Remember the 1994 "hot coffee lawsuit" in which a jury awarded an elderly New Mexico woman nearly $3 million (later appealed and settled for an undisclosed sum) because she was injured by a ...
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Posted on Feb 10, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
The National Labor Relations Board and an ambulance services company have settled a complaint about the firing of a woman who had criticized her supervisor on Facebook. The board's Hartford, ...
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Posted on Feb 8, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A Seattle woman struck by a Metro bus while she was in a crosswalk on Seattle's Alaskan Way in 2008 has reached a $4.5 million settlement with King County. The settlement between Ree Ah Bloedow, 45, ...
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Posted on Feb 7, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
(Reuters) - Bank of America Corp ( BAC.N ) has agreed to pay $410 million to settle lawsuits accusing it of charging customers with excessive overdraft fees, court documents show. The largest U.S. ...
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