DAKOTA CITY, Neb. (KTIV) - Dakota County leaders have moved ahead with their fight against a discrimination lawsuit.

Fourteen months ago, Frank Ozello Jr. was an athletically built 19-year-old college student. But the Howell man's life literally crashed to a halt early on Sept. 13, 2008, when he was visiting a friend at an off-campus house on Senior Street.

U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed reluctant Monday to give the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. a "statute of limitations" way out of defending against a securities fraud class action involving Vioxx. The Court heard arguments in the latest round in a continuing battle over how easy or hard it should be to file class actions. Companies want speed, while shareholder and consumer groups insist ...

In the latest development involving Seyfarth Shaw's former representation of Tae Bo creator Billy Blanks, the firm has been sued by one of its own partners. The lawsuit, brought by nonequity partner William Lancaster, alleges that Seyfarth Shaw demoted and exploited him for his role in representing Blanks, who won a $30 million malpractice verdict against the firm. Lancaster claims that even ...

AVILLA, Mo. — The parents of three students in the Avilla R-13 School District have filed lawsuits in federal court alleging their children have been the victims of discrimination by officials of the small grade school.

A state prison guard in Fayette County has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit claiming he was discriminated against after coworkers accused him of being homosexual.

A state prison guard in Fayette County has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit claiming he was discriminated against after coworkers accused him of being homosexual.

The last in a wave of hundreds of shareholder lawsuits over the 2001 AOL-Time Warner merger was dismissed on Monday by a New York judge who found the claim was filed too late and failed to link investor losses to statements made by AOL's auditor, Ernst & Young.

Continuing coverage now of the lawsuit that 15 families in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania have filed against Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation.

After more than 14 years of trying to turn a 97-acre parcel of Old Westbury land into a cemetery, the Diocese of Rockville Centre went to court Monday seeking to force the village to issue permits, while environmental groups continue to complain the proposed graveyard would pollute groundwater with toxins such as embalming fluid.