As she walked toward the supervisor's office, Tyson Foods employee Gwendolyn Miles says she slipped on a wet floor and fell. Miles claims a leak in the roof caused the floor to become a hazardous condition. Miles filed a personal injury lawsuit against Tyson Foods Inc. on Feb. 2 in the Marshall Div ...

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By David McFadden THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Bahamas court has rejected a U.S. bid to extradite a Czech-born financier on charges of plotting to bribe officials in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan in the late 1990s to get favourable treatment in oil deals, officials said ...

Tyson Foods has agreed to settle a class action suit brought against the company for the allegedly false claim that their chickens were "raised without antibiotics." The food giant agreed to pay the class of consumers up to $5 million, with a potential for up to $50 per consumer. After paying the at ...

Financial lessons are often best learned in retrospect, which can make it difficult to tell when you're going down the wrong financial path. Luckily, we can always learn from the mistakes of others. The Detroit News reports that former Detroit Lions lineman Luther Elliss was forced to file for bankr ...

A federal judge signed off on a preliminary settlement between Tyson Foods and consumers that could result in a $5 million payment from the poultry giant. The lawsuit accused Tyson of lying about the use of antibiotics while raising the chickens. Consumers could be eligible for a $10 or $5 coupon, a ...

Product liability victims – including many consumers who thought they were purchasing antibiotic free chicken - can receive cash and coupons under a proposed product liability settlement to a class action lawsuit that a judge is currently pondering. The class action product liability lawsuit contend ...

Equal Danger, by the great Sicilian novelist Leonardo Sciascia, is set in an unnamed country not, perhaps, entirely unlike Italy.  The hero, Rogas, goes to see President Riches of the Supreme Court.  As tactfully as he can, he suggests judicial error may have resulted in the conviction of ...

Good read in this morning's New York Times by Alex Williams explaining that a law degree from a top law school is no longer a ticket to riches in large law. Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa, an associate in 2006 at Pillsbury in San Francisco was willing to work mammoth hours "for the prospect of Caribbea ...

The quickly fading story of Harry Reid’s comments about Barack Obama’s “light skin” and “non-Negro dialect” offered an opportunity for the President to lead on the issue of race in America, and he passed. Back in March of 2008, given a similar opportunity to show ...