Month: August 2012

When it comes to prescription medications, every step of the process matters. How they are tested, how they are manufactured, how they are marketed and how they are prescribed. Prescription medications taken for the wrong illness or by the wrong person can have...

A patent infringement lawsuit between rival mobile device programmers Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. ended on Aug. 26 with a jury decision that Samsung's cell phones and other products used Apple technology without permission. The jury ordered Samsung to pay...

A lawsuit has been filed due to a bootlegged airing of a recent Ultimate Fighting Championship. Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. purchased the exclusive rights to distribute the fight between the champion and the second-ranked fighter. This fight was viewed as one of the...

A dating service that does business in Clark County has been sued by a former client who says that the service did not fix her up with "suitable male companions" as promised. Instead, the woman behind the lawsuit claims, the company set her up with men that lived...

Three employees of University Medical Center of Southern Nevada have filed a class action lawsuit against the hospital for what they say were illegal deductions from their pay. The plaintiffs, who say their suit was filed on behalf of "at least 50" other UMC...

A foreign division of Las Vegas Sands is under investigation by two federal agencies for possible bribery. The investigations are based on statements made by a former executive with Sands China Ltd in his wrongful termination lawsuit against the company. The former...

Without a word from the Las Vegas company that appealed a copyright infringement ruling in federal court earlier this summer, the court granted a dismissal of the appeal on Aug. 8. The decision continues what appears to be the slow winding down of the flurry...

Internet-based movie service Netflix got into trouble with its subscribers when it briefly tried to spin off its DVD rental business into a separate company last year. Now the company has settled a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of former clients for $9 million...