Hundreds of former employees at a shuttered South Florida foreclosure law firm have been permitted by a judge to pursue a class action lawsuit involving labor law violations. From Business Week at the Associated Press. Read the full story here. Ex-workers at Fla. foreclose firm get class action   Hundreds …

Both Hooters and Twin Peaks are known for scantily clad women serving casual food, but there’s nothing sexy about the documents that Hooters claims their former executive took to help the competition. Read the full story here. By Associated Press, Published: September 30 ATLANTA — The Hooters of America restaurant …

From yesterday’s Bloomberg.com. Read the full story here. SunTrust Banks Inc. (STI), M&T Bank Corp. (MTB) and two other banks accused of gouging customers on overdraft fees won a delay of lawsuits against them while an appeals court considers whether the plaintiffs have to go through arbitration. U.S. District Judge …

Interesting story from Thompson Reuters.  Filed under Better Than Fiction. Read the full story here. A half-decade ago, Richard Lehman was just a tax lawyer in South Florida who happened to have a very wealthy friend and client. Lehman’s fishing buddy, Wilson Lucom, was a curmudgeonly millionaire, a onetime member …

From yesterday’s LA Times. On deck in the Dodgers’ bankruptcy case: the Florida Marlins? Frank McCourt goes on a fishing expedition Dodgers owner, whom Major League Baseball is trying to push out of the game, wants a bankruptcy judge to force Selig to divulge financial data from every other club, …