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A ten year old boy was killed while riding the world’s largest waterslide at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kansas. After climbing up 264 stairs, riders descend the slide on a three-person raft that ends in a pool of water. The slide...

In 2015, a federal district court developed a solution for Google's struggle to issue 4-cent checks to 129 million Google and G-mail users as a settlement for violation of their privacy rights. The total settlement in the case was $5.3 million, with...

What did she know and when did she know it? These are the determinative questions in the trial of the wife of Omar Mateen. He is the shooter who entered Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida in June, 2016, and killed 49 people, and wounded 53 more...

President Trump’s former campaign chair Paul Manafort (resigned in August, 2016), and Manafort’s campaign deputy and former business partner Rick Gates, have been indicted. The charges are an outcome of the investigation into possible campaign...

Eva Echeverria won a verdict of $417 million against Johnson & Johnson in August, 2017. She had used the company’s baby powder daily in her genital area for more than 50 years beginning when she was age 11. In 2007 she was diagnosed with ovarian...

No television show or movie has written stuff this good. Jury selection for the securities fraud trial of Martin Shkreli began on Monday, June 26, 2017. The judge anticipated having a jury empaneled by noon, with the trial beginning in the afternoon....

Bill Cosby was on trial for sexual assault, accused of drugging and molesting Andrea Constand in 2004. Constand testified that Cosby, once a popular comedian, drugged and molested her. The defense is consent; that Constand was a willing partner to the...

Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of the late Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, was found unresponsive in her Atlanta home on January 31, 2015, and was in a medically induced coma until she died on July 27, 2015. Ms. Brown’s estate had filed suit...

Former Brooklyn police officer Peter Liang was tried and convicted of manslaughter for the shooting of a housing project resident in a stairwell. The prosecutor did not ask for prison time for Mr. Liang, noting that although he acted recklessly, there...

Bill Cosby is charged with three counts of the felony aggravated indecent assault (includes sexual intercourse when the victim is immobilized due to a drug administered by the defendant) based on an incident that allegedly occurred in 2004. The crime...

Mikal C. Watts was indicted by a federal grand jury on allegations that he filed claims on behalf of thousands with the BP Settlement fund. BP established the $20 billion fund following the explosion of its Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico...

An appeals court has ruled that Facebook must disclose information posted on individual users’ accounts whenever the company is served with a search warrant. The ruling was issued in a case that began with New York City prosecutors investigating...

Pedro Hernandez, age 54, was recently tried for the 1979 murder of 6 year old Etan Patz. The lad vanished on his way to a school bus stop in New York City on the first day his parents permitted him to make the two-block walk alone. The trial began January...

A grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri is expected to rule in the next few days on whether to charge Police Officer Darren Wilson with a crime in the shooting death of Michael Brown. The officer claims the shooting was justified as self-defense. Brown’s...

Federal prosecutors have launched an investigation to determine whether lawyers at GM concealed the problems with a faulty ignition switch on certain GM models that is believed to be the cause of at least 54 accidents and 13 fatalities. C hristopher M...

A police officer was tried this week on charges that he grabbed a woman who was standing on the street and sexually assaulted her at gunpoint while he was off duty. The officer was charged with various sex crimes including rape. While the jury found the...

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Aaron Rosenberg was the top salesperson for Redflex and was fired. Redflex is the company that manufactures the red-light cameras that flash drivers when they run the lights. The cameras are operating in 14 states ( California, Washington, Arizona...

Barry Bonds Case – Prosecutors Decide to Ditch not Pitch Perjury Charges Barry Bond is a baseball great, no matter what measurement you use. He played outfielder in the major leagues from 1986 to 2007 for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the San...

David Huffman had a blood alcohol level that was three times the legal limit when he slammed the car of Meredith and Mary Eastridge at a speed over 100 mph. The Eastridges were critically wounded, and Mrs. Eastridge lost their unborn son. The two spent...

A Texas Libertarian organization, the Liberty Committee, is seeking reimbursement for almost $20,000 from Ron Paul because Mr. Paul billed the Liberty Committee, as well as taxpayers (through his position as a member of the House) for the same airplane...

Chemical & Metal Industries (C&MI) does recycling work of hazardous chemicals used by various manufacturers. One client is the company Honeywell. In 2003, a Honeywell employee, Delvin Henry, died when he opened a canister that C&MI had mislabeled...

Twitter teetered on the brink of contempt, having resisted a judge’s order to produce three months of tweets issued by a protestor of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. The OWS participant is charged with disorderly conduct based on his participation...

John Liu is a candidate for Mayor of the City of New York. His campaign has been plagued with allegations of campaign finance violations allegedly committed by his ex-campaign treasurer and an ex-fundraiser. The primary allegation is conspiring to funnel...

Civil forfeiture statutes became popular in the 1980s as a way to supplement the “War on Drugs.” Unlike criminal forfeiture, where a person convicted of a criminal offense may be required to forfeit ill-gotten gains, under civil forfeiture...