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Byline: Kevin Wack A federal judge ordered retail trade groups Thursday to make changes to websites that seek to persuade merchants to oppose a proposed settlement over credit card swipe [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack More and more, banks and the largest credit card networks are becoming bystanders in the long-running legal wrangling over credit card swipe fees. Taking center stage is [...]

Byline: David Bennett Tired of waiting for resolution of Pigford II, the Memphis-based Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association (BFAA) is stoking the fire under those adjudicating the settlement. Towards that [...]

An acrimonious three-year-long conflict between an Orthodox Pittsburgh rabbi and the Pennsylvania Board of Funeral Directors finally came to an end this week, with the announcement of a 'Memorandum of [...]

Byline: Gabe Nelson Massachusetts dealers plan to press on with a lawsuit against Tesla Motors, although a judge has denied a request for a preliminary injunction against the automaker. As [...]

Byline: KRISTI ELLIS Swipe-Fee Settlement Irks Stores WASHINGTON A large swath of U.S. retailers and several trade associations have risen up to oppose a $7.25 billion proposed settlement with Visa, [...]

A discrimination case brought against the Association of Optometrists was resolved between the parties before evidence was heard. Claimant Sama Elwakili took her case to central London employment tribunal offices [...]

The Personal Finance Society has urged the FSA to ensure it effectively polices accredited bodies to ensure they deliver 'good value and outcomes'. Accredited bodies will be responsible for providing [...]

Byline: Paul Muolo The National Association of Independent Housing Professionals is giving up - for now - on its legal battle against the Federal Reserve Board to block the agency's [...]

The National Futures Association has brought a member responsibility action effectively freezing the business of International Commodity Advisors, a Marietta, Ga.-based commodity trading adviser. The self-regulatory organization accused ICA of [...]

Sophie Griffiths and Rob Gill. Spain's leading hotel association has launched legal action against Thomas Cook over the operator's unilateral cuts in payments to hoteliers. The Spanish Confederation of Hotels [...]

An Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada hearing panel has permanently banned Yves Tardif, a former mutual fund salesman at iForum Securities. An Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada hearing [...]

CTIA is suing the City of San Francisco in hopes of blocking the enforcement of the Cell Phone Right-to-Know ordinance that the city's Board of Supervisors recently passed. The ordinance [...]

NIH proposes new set of conflict-of-interest rules The National Institutes of Health has proposed an updated set of rules for reporting and managing financial conflicts of interest among investigators working [...]

Quinn Direct is to appeal a High Court judgment from October 2009, which it claims relates to issues 'central to the rights of insurers'. The original case against The Law [...]

A New York District Court has yet to make a decision on whether or not to approve Google's revised settlement with US authors and publishers to scan millions of books [...]

Gerry Pike, the dissident Direct Marketing Association board member who launched a reform-based proxy campaign, was re-elected to the DMA's board during the organization's annual business meeting. Pike had been [...]

The Direct Marketing Association's voting members see limited value from their membership, according to an unscientific survey sent by dissident board member Gerry Pike. Ranked on a one (low) to [...]

In the latest salvo of the Direct Marketing Association proxy battle, DMA chair Kelly B. Browning sent out a letter endorsing the DMA's slate of board members and seeking proxy [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro From London to Washington to Kansas City, Mo., HCA is facing legal actions that could have impacts measured in hundreds of millions of dollars. Last week, the [...]

HOBART, Ind. -- The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America recently filed a lawsuit against Luke Oil Co., a convenience store operator headquartered here, over the company's new logo [...]

A past president of an insurance institute has threatened legal action against the Institute of Insurance Broker's attempt to establish a 'quality symbol' for its members. The red kitemark, which [...]

A New York District Court judge agreed to delay a hearing on the Google Book Search settlement to give Google and authors and publishers time to revise the proposal. Google […]

The authors and publishers groups involved in the Google Book Search settlement Sept. 22 asked a district court judge to postpone his fairness hearing on the deal so they can […]

The normally sedate actuarial world has been rocked by an ugly feud between the board of the American Academy of Actuaries and the president-elect it's trying to oust. All but [...]

Alan Hughes is an associate specialising in financial services at Foot Anstey The Court of Appeal recently heard the latest case of an IFA seeking to challenge the refusal of […]

GREENPEACE: PROGRESS IN SEAFOOD WASHINGTON - Greenpeace last week said it's 'seeing signs of progress' among supermarkets ranked in its annual survey of seafood sustainability practices. The environmental activist group [...]

NEW YORK Ladies’ Home Journal editor Sally Lee is drawing American Society of Magazine Editors scrutiny again, in a case that raises pay-for-play questions. Ellen DeGeneres appears on the cover [...]

COLUMBUS, OHIO - Ohio retailers are confronting cost increases on many fronts, including rising taxes levied by the debt-ridden state government. One such tax is the commercial activity tax, or [...]

A group that promotes open source software filed a lawsuit against Cisco on Thursday, claiming that some of the networking vendor's routers violate the terms of open source licenses that […]

An IFA has been sent for trial at Shrewsbury Crown Court on a series of deception charges. Michael Tomlinson, 57, from Nantwich, Cheshire, appeared before Market Drayton magistrates charged with […]

By Ted Hearn A trade group for small cable operators had harsh words last Thursday for News Corp.'s effort to escape Federal Communications Commission competitive conditions imposed in late 2003, [...]

The Home Builders Association of Metro Orlando, which represents area developers, has sued the Orange County (Fla.) district to force the system to pay for all its new schools with […]

Byline: Cinda Becker A federal jury in Columbus, Ohio, convicted Lance Poulsen, the former owner and chief executive officer of National Century Financial Enterprises, on all charges in a witness-tampering [...]

The Software Information Industry Association is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments in a case that addresses differences between states and private entities suing over patent infringement. "There […]

Royal Dutch Shell could face legal action by trade union Amicus over redundancy packages for thousands of IT staff. Shell is to outsource more than 3,000 IT jobs worldwide to […]

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said Tuesday that it fined 19 broker-dealers $2.8 million for overstating their advertised trading volume to three private service providers. The federal regulator said it [...]

By Linda Haugsted Trade Group Shot Down by State Commission The Michigan Public Service Commission has rejected a formal complaint by a local programming producers trade group regarding the way [...]

There was noisy argument at last month's Inter-national Longshoremen's Association convention over dissidents' proposals for direct election of officers. But the meeting hall was pin-drop quiet when attorneys briefed union [...]

Court Report Biomet files 13-count lawsuit against Zimmer and former exec A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Biomet Orthopedics and Biomet (both, Warsaw, Indiana) recently initiated legal proceedings against Zimmer [...]

MARTIN FERGUSON The Scottish travel industry's dispute with Iata could be nearing a conclusion. The international airline organisation has agreed to meet representatives from the Scottish Passenger Agents' Association over [...]

In what was otherwise a very positive FESPA 2007 for THIEME GmbH & Co. KG (Teningen, Germany), a case of product piracy came to light. A court injunction was necessary [...]