BP on Wednesday sued the maker of the device that failed to stop last year’s calamitous Gulf oil spill and the owner of the rig that exploded, alleging that negligence by Cameron International and Transocean helped cause the disaster.

Even the doctrine of absolute judicial immunity proved to be too weak a defense for the two disgraced former Luzerne County judges who are the leading figures in Pennsylvania’s “kids-for-cash” scandal. A federal judge has ruled that the pair — Michael T. Conahan and Mark A.

A Florida inmate is suing the man he’s convicted of burglarizing, claiming he was roughed up during a citizen’s arrest. After he allegedly stole a bicycle locked inside a van, Michael Dupree was apprehended by the owner and two others, who Dupree says pointed a gun at him, handcuffed him and kneed him in the back

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After a Georgia man had both his legs partially amputated as a result of a railroad car accident, he filed suit in federal court. One defendant, the owner of the railroad car that ran over the plaintiff, settled for undisclosed terms in the midst of a deposition. But the railroad, CSX Transportation, went to trial last month