Month: July 2011

Alarmed at the increasing number of fatal commercial bus and truck accidents, federal safety regulators have been cracking down on companies that they know to have poor safety records. The American Bus Association has approved of this move, because they say most...

Oracle is currently suing Google for infringement of patents over Google's Android smartphone. Oracle claims in its lawsuit that the Android operating system was created by infringing on patents that Oracle owns from its purchase of Sun Microsystems. In the...

Two members of Congress have proposed a bill that would prohibit employers from discriminating against unemployed job applicants. The proposed federal law has come about after widespread reports in the media of job ad postings that list "must be currently employed"...

A federal judge has ruled in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's religious discrimination lawsuit against the clothing chain Abercrombie & Fitch. A jury will consider the case at a later date and decide what damages are owed by the...

A woman who survived the recent collision in Nevada of a semi-truck and Amtrak train says that she almost was one of the victims. She awoke in the train car she was assigned to and spent the morning meditating and praying. Then she left the car to clean up...

The Supreme Court refused recently to hear the appeal of a family who had brought a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Air Force. The Supreme Court upheld the 61-year-old Feres Doctrine in doing so, which is a legal precedent that says that active duty...

Verizon Communications has agreed to settle a lawsuit with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over claims that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. Businesses that employ 15 or more employees must comply with the ADA, which says that...

Lawsuits have been filed against the Battle Mountain, Nevada, trucking company by Amtrak and by victims of the recent fiery collision of a semi-trailer truck and a passenger train in Nevada. Amtrak has sued the trucking company for negligence. According to the...