Newport Beach and Irvine are exchanging barbs over large-scale development projects, each claiming the other city has not done the proper environmental homework.

A divided Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a Washington County man's medical malpractice lawsuit, although the dismissal came before the presiding judge had ruled on a request by the man's attorney to withdraw from the case. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)

Newport Beach and Irvine are exchanging barbs over large-scale development projects, each claiming the other city has not done the proper environmental homework.

MILLSBORO -- A local environmental watchdog group has filed suit against a power plant they claim has made more than 6,000 violations while in operation.

A Luzerne County judge has set a date for a status conference of lawyers and a senior out-of-town judge regarding an eight-year-old lawsuit stemming from a fuel spill in the Hazleton area.

Two Sierra Nevada environmental groups have settled lawsuits challenging the rezoning of 12,541 acres of timberland owned by Sierra Pacific Industries, the largest private landowner in California. The settlements announced Friday rescind actions in Sierra and Lassen counties that would have changed forests from timberland production zones to those that eventually would allow residential ...

A federal judge dismissed a race discrimination lawsuit in which a former black employee at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc. alleged that she faced retaliation for complaining about a hostile work environment.

A federal judge threw out a Biovail Corp. shareholder lawsuit against a group of hedge funds including SAC Capital Advisors LP in which investors of the Canadian drugmaker accused them of driving down its share price.

PONTIAC -- Two former Livingston County sheriff’s deputies were dismissed Friday from a lawsuit alleging they played a role in the 2007 death of a teenager who fled an underage drinking party that he thought was being raided.

An attempt this week at negotiating a settlement of Milwaukee County's high-stakes lawsuit against its former pension actuary has concluded with no announced breakthroughs.