Stacey Wilson Betts of Wilsonville, Ore., took her daughter to see a Justin Bieber concert two years ago. Now she wants $9.2 million as compensation. Betts filed a lawsuit against the tween pop idol for allegedly ruining her hearing. According ...

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Fed up with the number of seemingly preventable police misconduct lawsuits crossing his desk, Baltimore City Solicitor George A. Nilson penned a program designed to use past experience to prevent similar incidents in the future. Nilson’s idea is to analyze ...

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NEW YORK — Facebook is seeking to consolidate the more than 40 lawsuits it faces following its rocky initial public offering of stock last month. In a filing with a judicial panel on Friday, Facebook and the banks overseeing its ...

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NEW YORK — Microsoft, which just bought patents from AOL for $1 billion, is now turning around and selling most of them to Facebook for $550 million. Facebook is buying about 650 of the 925 AOL patents and patent applications ...

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LONDON — Nearly 50 new phone hacking lawsuits have been filed against Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper company, a lawyer said Friday, including ones by singer James Blunt, soccer star Wayne Rooney and Cherie Blair, the wife of Britain’s former prime ...

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A judge has dismissed a personal injury lawsuit that 14 West Virginia families brought against DuPont over a former zinc smelting operation, saying they failed to produce evidence that toxins from the plant made them sick. The ...

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WASHINGTON — Every once in a while a lottery jackpot becomes so huge that people can’t help but band together in the hope of increasing their odds, pooling their money for a wad of tickets and promising to evenly split ...

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The Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Maryland’s Francis King Carey School of Law serves two purposes. First and foremost, it makes the practice of law real for future lawyers. But it also provides a valuable — and nearly ...

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SHANGHAI — Apple Inc. is facing yet another challenge to its use of the iPad trademark in China — this time in a court in California. Proview Electronics Co., a unit of Proview International Holdings, which claims it owns the ...

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WASHINGTON — The transit agency responsible for the Washington-area Metro train system has settled seven of nine lawsuits by families of people killed in a 2009 train crash that was the deadliest accident in the network’s history. Metro and three ...

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