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Google Inc., the world most-used search engine, must face claims that it violated protections against wiretapping raised in a lawsuit over the company’s Street View feature.

The cases against the VA have included missed diagnoses, delayed treatment and procedures performed on wrong body parts.

Tagged with: medical malpractice

New York Party Shuttle was told to stop running buses in 2011 after failing a safety audit.

Bank of America Corp. can’t be sued by unified groups of homeowners in different states over its failure to modify mortgages.

Tagged with: Bank of America

Apple Inc. doesn’t have to face an antitrust lawsuit by customers who accused it of maintaining a monopoly over music downloading through its iTunes stores, a federal appeals court ruled.

Tagged with: Antitrust Case Apple Inc.

Foley Hoag accuses opposing firm of failing to do its due diligence.

California’s ban on the sale of foie gras, made from the livers of force-fed ducks, remains in effect after a U.S. appeals court upheld a lower-court decision not to block the law.

The impulse to patent harks to Silicon Valley as companies stake their claims to new techniques and equipment for hydraulic fracturing, automated drilling and computer software that helps find and reach oil and gas deposits.

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. persuaded a judge to throw out a lawsuit by two Minnesota counties claiming the use of MERS to avoid paying mortgage-assignment filing fees violates state law.

Couples living in states where same-sex marriage is legal should have little problem qualifying for federal spousal benefits once agencies begin processing requests. But couples living in other states are now facing a legal landscape that one attorney described as “a complete mess.”

The U.S. Federal Reserve asked that its rules on debit-card transaction fees and processing be left in place while it appeals a decision that they are illegal.

Tagged with: Federal Reserve