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Court Overturns Law Allowing Guns at Work
The ruling will prevent employees from keeping firearms in their cars while parked on company property. Read more
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Save the Yellow Pages
Small-business owners are fighting to preserve the old-fashioned phone book. Plus, Groupon gets sued, and the rest of the day's news. Read more
Banks Become Main Target of Defrauded Investors
February 17, 2005 --Who's at fault for the Internet boom and bust of a few years ago? Investors, bankers, and companies involved in the bu... Read more
Credit Card Laundering Is Dirty Business
Credit card laundering, sometimes referred to as "factoring," works like this: A company that does not have a credit card merchant account with a bank or ... Read more
The Name Of The Game
The year was 1971, and Ralph Anspach, a San Francisco State University economics professor, was sitting in his Berkeley home, playing Monopoly with his se... Read more
Facebook Sues Start-up Teachbook Over Name
The online community for teachers has two employees, less than 30 users, and is yet to launch officially. Read more
New Legal Privilege for Your PR firm
At the first sign of trouble, call a lawyer--and have that lawyer dial a publicist. Read more
Tax Battle Moves to Supreme Court
Ohio business owners argue that large corporations should not receive state tax incentives. Read more
Fabricated Facebook Scandals; LinkedIn’s New CEO
Facebook's creation myth through the Hollywood lens. The fact that former fiction writer Ben Mezrich sold his upcoming Facebook expose, The Acci... Read more
Google Maps Made Me Do It
A woman is hit by a car – and sues Google for putting her in the path of danger. Read more
Would You Refuse to Hire Someone Wearing Dreadlocks?
The U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission is suing a Virginia company for denying a job to a Rastafarian who wouldn't cut his hair because of his reli... Read more
Fast-Sinking Star
After making the #1 spot on the 1996 Inc. 500, multilevel marketer Bill Gouldd slid and folded in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. Read more
On Ownership And Justice
INC.'s story "Feuding Families" (January) referred to Oakland Scavenger Co. as "a company for Italians; no others need apply." In fact, over 41% of the co... Read more
An Ounce Of Prevention
Many companies are rethinking -- and rewriting -- personnel policies to help head off employee lawsuits. Read more
FTC Takes Action Against First Do-Not-Call List Violator
May 4, 2004 --The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took its first action against violators of the do-not-call list today. The FTC has filed ... Read more
Thanks, But No Thanks
Why to avoid taking out a merchant cash advance. Read more
Can You Spot the Real Utube?
Millions of Web surfers couldn't, so now there's a lawsuit. Read more
A Small Businessman Challenges The Big Banks
Jackie Kleiner claimed fraud when an Atlanta bank said his loan was at the "prime rate." Read more
InPhonic's Missed Connections
Why being No. 1 on the Inc. 500 and selling more cell phones on the Internet than anyone else wasn't enough. Read more
Born-again Steel
David Houck worked for Big Steel all his life -- until the mill shut down. . . Read more
High Noon in Aisle Five
If Rupert Murdoch's boys rode into your company's territory, what would you do: run for the hills or stay and fight? In the tradition of Gary Cooper's greate... Read more
Sugar Ray Leonard's Toughest Fight
The six-time champ is trying to build a business, promote a new generation of fighters, and clean up his sullied sport. It's not as easy as it sounds. Read more
Blind Ambition
Two companies fight over the patent rights to fiber optic HDTV (high-definition television). Read more
"they Took My Name But They Didn't Get My Goat"
Taylor Wine Company prevented Walter S. Taylor from using his name on his own wines. Says Walter Read more
Fear Of Franchising
How Carol Brothers seduced the press, the industry, and scores of franchisees with the false promise of 'the next McDonald's' Read more
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