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Female Workers Hit Walmart With New Class-Action Suits

Colossal nationwide suit split into regional cases

(Newser) - Four months after the Supreme Court decided that 1.5 million past and present female workers at Walmart couldn't be lumped together in a single class-action suit , the first of what promises to be a flood of fresh lawsuits have begun. The original plaintiffs—who say they were denied...

Feds Sue South Carolina Over New Immigration Law

State's proposed law is one of the nation's toughest

(Newser) - The federal government is suing South Carolina to put a stop to the state's tough new immigration law. US Attorney Bill Nettles said today the government wants a judge to stop enforcement of the legislation. The law requires that officers call federal immigration officials if they suspect someone is...

Taylor Swift Threatens Lawsuit Over Topless Pic

Celebrity site offers oddly religious compromise

(Newser) - This is even bigger than Kanye West snatching her microphone away at the MTV Awards . Taylor Swift is threatening to sue a celebrity website for posting a topless photo of a skinny blond in blue undies who may or may not be her, Huffington Post reports. The site, Celeb Jihad,...

BlackBerry Users Sue RIM Over Outage

Lawsuits say firm hasn't taken responsibility for disaster

(Newser) - Research In Motion has been slapped with a pair of lawsuits over its recent protracted email, IM, and web outage , one on behalf of users in the US and the other on behalf of users in Canada. The US suit, filed yesterday in California, was filed by user Eric Mitchell...

PETA Sues SeaWorld for Whale 'Slaves'

Says their treatment violates 13th amendment

(Newser) - Never known for half-measures , PETA is suing SeaWorld—for violating the 13th Amendment. You know, the one that outlawed slavery. In a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of killer whales Tilikum, Katina, Corky, Kasatka, and Ulises, the animal rights group contends that SeaWorld keeps its orcas in conditions that violate...

Man Suing for Ageism Says His Judge Is Too Old

Angry violinist wants new judge for age discrimination suit

(Newser) - How’s this for irony: A 60-year-old violinist, who is suing a music competition for age discrimination, says the 88-year-old judge presiding over his case is too old and should be given the boot. Martin Stoner was rejected from the Young Concert Artists competition, which is meant for musicians one-third...

Actress Sues IMDb for Revealing Her Actual Age
Actress Sues IMDb for Revealing Her Actual Age
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Oct 22, 2011 12:16 PM CDT

Actress Sues IMDb for Revealing Her Actual Age

'Jane Doe' wants $1M

(Newser) - Here’s another entry on the list of bizarre celebrity lawsuits: An actress is suing Amazon.com for $1 million because the Internet Movie Database, which Amazon owns, revealed her age. The actress—sadly, we can’t tell you who she is, because she filed as “Jane Doe”—...

Samsung Sues Apple to Block iPhone 4S Sales

Lawsuits filed in Japan and Australia

(Newser) - Samsung fired another salvo in its legal war with Apple today, filing suits in Japan and Australia to try to prevent iPhone 4S sales there—on top of similar suits already filed in France and Italy. Each suit revolves around a different patent Samsung says Apple is infringing, the Wall ...

Switched at Birth: Russian Parents Raise Wrong Daughters After Maternity Ward Error
Parents Raise Each Other's Kid After Hospital Snafu
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Oct 11, 2011 2:18 PM CDT

Parents Raise Each Other's Kid After Hospital Snafu

Mistake goes unnoticed for 12 years

(Newser) - Two Russian families raised each other's daughter without knowing it—and they didn't learn the truth until the girls were 12. After Yuri and Yuliya Belyaeva got divorced, Yuri wouldn't support his daughter because he didn't believe she was his. A DNA test confirmed his suspicion,...

Creditors Sue Crystal Cathedral's Founding Family

Family scored big salaries despite church's financial woes: suit

(Newser) - The Crystal Cathedral creditors' committee is suing the church's founding family for allegedly borrowing endowment money and raking in healthy salaries—all while the church was in dire financial straits. The lawsuit says that family members of founder Robert H. Schuller borrowed some $10 million from an endowment fund...

Cops Forced Me to Listen to Limbaugh: Suit

Texan arrested after car broke down

(Newser) - First she got a ticket, then she was arrested, and as a sheriff's deputy drove her to prison, she claims she was subjected to Rush Limbaugh's "derogatory comments about black people" on the radio. All this and more prompted a Texas woman to sue the deputy and...

Surgeon Posts Topless Photos of Implant Patients
 Surgeon Posts 
 Topless Photos 
 of Implant Patients 
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Oct 8, 2011 7:00 PM CDT

Surgeon Posts Topless Photos of Implant Patients

Seven women are suing after online miscue

(Newser) - Odd lawsuit of the day: Some St. Louis women who got breast implants were horrified to discover that their surgeon posted before-and-after photos on her website —with their names attached, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch . "I sincerely regret that the protective mechanisms supposedly set up by my former...

Coffee-Making Interns Didn't Work for Us: Fox

Statement insists 'Black Swan' lawsuit is invalid

(Newser) - Remember those Black Swan interns suing Fox Searchlight for not paying them to make coffee? Turns out they may not have actually worked for Fox Searchlight. The interns were employed by Darren Aronofsky’s production company, which made Black Swan, "well before Fox Searchlight even acquired its rights in...

Black Swan Interns Sue Over Having to Make Coffee

They should have been paid for non-educational tasks, they argue

(Newser) - Conventional wisdom states that being an unpaid intern means making an awful lot of coffee, but two such interns decided not to take that sort of treatment lying down. Alex Footman and Eric Glatt are suing Fox Searchlight Pictures over their Black Swan internships, claiming that the production company violated...

More Groupon Workers Suing for Overtime

This time, 50 employees allege they weren't paid overtime

(Newser) - Groupon employees have filed a class action lawsuit against the company claiming unpaid overtime, the second such suit filed against the daily deals website in the past month. This time around, Groupon’s so-called “deal vetters”—a position that no longer exists—say they weren’t paid overtime...

Jaycee Dugard Sues Feds for 'Gross Neglect' in Kidnap Case

Parole officials failed to keep track of Phillip Garrido, she says

(Newser) - Jaycee Dugard is suing the federal government for failing to keep track of Phillip Garrido, the parolee who held her captive for 18 years and fathered two children by her, reports CNN . Her complaint states that the Justice Department's "gross neglect borders on virtual complicity," notes the...

Saudis Funded al-Qaeda, Enabled 9/11 Attacks: Suit

Claims country backed banks, charities that supported terrorist group

(Newser) - A syndicate of Britain’s Lloyd’s insurance company is suing Saudi Arabia on the assertion that the country gave material support to al-Qaeda in the years before 9/11, the Independent reports. The syndicate wants repayment of the $215 million it gave to victims of the 9/11 attacks; the company...

New York Stockbroker Sues White Castle Over Small Booths
290-Pound Man Sues
White Castle Over Booths
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Sep 18, 2011 11:46 AM CDT

290-Pound Man Sues White Castle Over Booths

Martin Kessman says the seats violate his rights as a fat person

(Newser) - A disgruntled 290-pound White Castle fan is taking his pain to court, Fox News reports. Stockbroker Martin Kessman, 64, is suing the fast food chain for not expanding its booths for his meaty girth. He complained two years ago after banging a knee against a table support at his local...

News Corp. Sued for US Hacking—By Shareholders

They say it knew a decade ago of illegal activity

(Newser) - Seems like there's no news but bad news for Rupert Murdoch these days: The latest legal salvo against the News Corp empire is a lawsuit alleging that its board knew for more than a decade that some of its US subsidiaries were engaged in illegal hacking, this time in...

Father in Northern Ireland Sues Facebook After Daughter Posts Lewd Photos of Herself
Dad Sues Facebook After Daughter Posts Lewd Pics
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Sep 10, 2011 7:00 PM CDT

Dad Sues Facebook After Daughter Posts Lewd Pics

The big problem: She's only 12

(Newser) - A father in Northern Ireland is suing Facebook after his 12-year-old daughter posted lewd photos of herself on the site, reports the Evening Herald . The suit claims that Facebook is too lax about enforcing its policy of allowing only those 13-and-older to join, and that has put his daughter at...

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