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Wed, 28/12/2011 - 14:27 by Neera Sabharwal
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is now facing some heat from Italy's anti-trust authorities for deceptive practices regarding post-purchase assistance and product warranties.
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Mon, 21/02/2011 - 11:10 by Anter Prakash Singh
This summer smokers in New York will find even fewer places to puff as smoking will be banned on the 14 miles of beach and nearly 1,000 parks of the city. Many people are questioning this move as there are a lot of buildings, cars and buses that are creating much more pollution in the city.
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Thu, 09/12/2010 - 10:20 by Prince damin
New York -- An elderly woman says she was hit with a $100 fine for tossing a newspaper into a city trash bin outside her Manhattan apartment building.
Delia Gluckin, 80, tossed the paper into the city litter basket on her way to the subway station downtown when she was approached by a woman in a blue uniform, the New York Post reported Wednesday.
"I thought she was going to ask for directions. She said, 'You just dropped garbage in there.' I said, 'I didn't, it was just a newspaper,' and I offered to take it out," Gluckin said.
Sanitation cop Kathy Castro wrote Gluckin a ticket for putting "improper refuse" in a city litter basket marked "litter only" and "no household trash."
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Fri, 26/11/2010 - 05:44 by harsheeb
New York -- A New York woman said the $100 ticket she is challenging in court was the result of not understanding the pay system on a new bus.
Daryn Mayer said she boarded the M15 Select Bus through a back door Tuesday and went up front to pay with her MetroCard, the New York Post reported Thursday.
However, Mayer said the driver told her the vehicle requires payments to be made at outdoor machines but refused to open the doors to allow her to get off the vehicle.
Mayer said the driver told her she could ride for free but she was confronted by uniformed officers at the next stop who demanded to see her bus slip.
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Sun, 14/11/2010 - 01:07 by Anter Prakash Singh
The California Department of Public Health has fined 12 state hospitals for medical errors causing serious injury or even death in some cases.
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Wed, 27/10/2010 - 09:58 by Jamie Anderson
Pharmaceutical behemoth GlaxoSmithKline PLC has agreed to pay $750 million as fine to settle civil and criminal charges against it for knowingly making and selling adulterated drugs.
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Sat, 23/10/2010 - 07:27 by Prince damin
Hydro, Okla. -- Police in Oklahoma said they arrested a man who broke his poodle out of the pound rather than pay the $100 fine for the canine's release.
Hydro police said Edwin Fry, 73, drove his lawnmower to the town kennel Oct. 13 and used a large pair of bolt cutters to free his dog, Buddy Tough, from a cage, The Oklahoman reported Friday.
Police said Buddy Tough had been locked up once before because he was found off his leash and Fry paid $50 to have him released. Authorities said he would have had to pay $100 to free the dog following the second offense.
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Sat, 16/10/2010 - 14:23 by Neha Gupta
The U.S. pharmaceutical giant, CVS, has agreed to pay a $75 million fine in order to settle allegations by the Department of Justice alleging that it sold methamphetamine illegally at stores in California and Nevada.
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Sun, 11/07/2010 - 16:16 by Sophie Anderson
Terming the award against the Boston University graduate student as "unconstitutionally excessive", a federal judge radically trimmed down the $675,000 verdict by 90 percent.
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Sun, 11/07/2010 - 00:38 by Pankaj Damin
Chicago -- U.S. regulators say they will decide whether to fine United Airlines up to $27,500 per passenger for leaving passengers in idling planes more than three hours.
Chicago-based United operated four of the five U.S. flights delayed in May beyond the new limit on tarmac time set by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Delta Air Lines operated the fifth flight, which took off from Atlanta 2 minutes after the three-hour cutoff point, federal data indicated.
The United delays occurred May 26 after thunderstorms halted take-offs and landings at Denver International Airport, United spokeswoman Jean Medina said. Tarmac delays for the four flights ranged from 3 hours, 10 minutes to 4 hours, 41 minutes, DOT data indicated.
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Thu, 24/06/2010 - 10:43 by Pankaj Damin
Washington -- The U.S. Department of Justice said Northrop Grumman had agreed to pay $12.5 million to settle charges it made false claims concerning electronic components.
The government alleged the company failed to properly test electronic parts used in navigation systems for military planes, helicopters, submarines and equipment sent into outer space.
"Companies that do business with the government must comply with all of their obligations," Tony West, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil division, said in a statement released Wednesday.
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Sat, 29/05/2010 - 10:02 by Rakhi
Herisu, Switzerland -- A Swiss man fined for hiking naked under a public order law introduced last year in the canton of Appenzell is appealing against the law.
The hiker, who was not identified by authorities, was fined after witnesses said he hiked nude past a communal barbecuing area and a Christian care home in the region, which passed the public order law last year after it became a popular destination for nude hikers, the BBC reported Friday.
The man is appealing the fine under a Swiss federal law stating public nudity is not a crime.
Appenzell is traditionally a conservative region, where women have only had the right to vote since 1990.
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