TRENTON, N.J. - A group favoring a New Jersey bear hunt as a way to control the bruin population is considering filing a lawsuit against the state because it has not issued hunting permits, a lawyer with the group said Tuesday.

The law firm of Stull, Stull & Brody announces that a shareholder lawsuit has been commenced against certain members of the board of directors and certain executive officers of Medarex, Inc. .

A Bay area family who's suing Wal-Mart and a Clearwater-based pool company will soon know if a jury is going to award them millions of dollars. The dive stick lawsuit trial, where a young boy had his rectum impaled by the toy, could conclude Wednesday.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- For five years, the death of Sandra Baker Joyner after a mini-facelift was attributed to medical error. But last month, investigators proposed a more sinister explanation.

Environmentalists threatened to sue Canada to force cuts to greenhouse-gas emissions agreed under the Kyoto Protocol, despite officials' claims the target cannot be achieved.

The Department of Justice today reached a settlement resolving allegations of racial discrimination with the owner and operator of Eve, a nightclub in Milwaukee, Wis. The Justice Department alleged that the nightclub discriminated against African-American patrons by denying them admission into the nightclub for false reasons. The settlement requires the nightclub to implement changes to its

State Department of Labor Secretary Conroy Chino is the subject of a lawsuit by a former high-level employee who claims he was forced from his job because he is Hispanic and spoke publicly about problems in the department.

The following statement was issued today by the law firm of Schiffrin & Barroway, LLP:

Shalov Stone & Bonner LLP today commenced a securities class action on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Xethanol Corporation in the period from January 31, 2006 to August 8, 2006, inclusive. The lawsuit is pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and names as defendants the company and certain of its executive officers.

The consumer advocacy group Citizens for Economic Opportunity on Wednesday filed suit in a Connecticut court alleging that limited-benefits health insurance plans sold by Aetna subsidiary Strategic Resources Company mislead consumers into thinking they have more comprehensive coverage than the plans provide, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. [click link for full article]