Litigation

  • CVS says it is subject of FTC investigation
    AP (November 05, 2009)
    NEW YORK (AP) - The Federal Trade Commission is investigating some of CVS Caremark Corp.'s business practices, the company said Thursday.
     
  • RI hospital fined $150,000 in wrong-site surgery
    AP (November 03, 2009)
    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's largest hospital was fined $150,000 and ordered to take the extraordinary step of installing video cameras in all its operating rooms after it had its fifth wrong-site surgery since 2007, state health officials said Monday.
     
  • Cheney FBI interview: 72 instances of can't recall
    AP (November 02, 2009)
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way.
     
  • US: Mass. can't force gay marriage benefits
    AP (October 30, 2009)
    WASHINGTON (AP) - States that allow gay marriage can't force the federal government to provide benefits to those couples, the Obama administration argued Friday in court papers in a lawsuit by Massachusetts.
     
  • California Rep. Waters is under investigation
    AP (October 29, 2009)
    WASHINGTON (AP) - The House ethics committee said Thursday it's investigating whether California Rep. Maxine Waters used her influence to help a bank in which her husband owned stock - and whether the couple benefited as a result.
     
  • Mo. restricts media access to prisoner interviews
    AP (October 20, 2009)
    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri prison officials are restricting inmate access to the media, citing concerns over the cost of security for onsite interviews.
     
  • Feds to stop prosecuting medical marijuana users
    AP (October 19, 2009)
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo
     
  • Bank of America to give up Merrill deal documents
    AP (October 12, 2009)
    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - After months of resistance, Bank of America Corp. is handing over documents related to its purchase of Merrill Lynch & Co. to the office of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
     
  • Bigger savings seen from limiting medical lawsuits
    AP (October 09, 2009)
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Limits on medical malpractice lawsuits would lead doctors to order up fewer unneeded tests and save taxpayers billions more than previously thought, budget umpires for Congress said Friday in a reversal that puts the issue back in the middle of the health care debate.