A judge says Charlie Sheen’s $100 million lawsuit over his firing from “Two and a Half Men” should be handled through private arbitration rather than in a public courtroom. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Allan Goodman ruled Wednesday that Sheen’s …
Prosecutors are telling jurors that although there were regulatory shortcomings, three construction company supervisors’ actions are to blame for two firefighters’ deaths at a condemned ground zero building. Prosecutors began their summation Wednesday in the manslaughter trial stemming from the …
Four years after its filing, a lawsuit accusing the city of Muskogee of depriving property owners of their rights without just compensation is set for trial. The Muskogee Phoenix reports the trial will begin Wednesday before Creek County District Judge …
A federal judge has chosen a Utah crash that killed two people as the first bellwether trial in nationwide litigation over whether Toyota Motor Corp made defective vehicles that sped up unexpectedly. U.S. District Judge James Selna chose the case …
Livingston’s lawsuit against a railway company over rail yard pollution appears to be headed to trial. City leaders and several of the approximately 145 residents involved in the dispute met with Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Corp. officials Monday and Tuesday. They …
New Hampshire prosecutors are fighting to use forensic evidence in the trial of a man charged with setting a 1989 fire that killed four people in Keene. Lawyers for 54-year-old David McLeod are in court Tuesday challenging the validity of …