<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Court to Starbucks: Return tip money  Starbucks to court: Hmmmm...no : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/law/"/><tagline>Court to Starbucks: Return tip money  Starbucks to court: Hmmmm...no : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-09-07T15:26:21+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Court to Starbucks: Return tip money  Starbucks to court: Hmmmm...no]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/56171/1/" /><id>56171</id><summary><![CDATA[Court to Starbucks: Return tip money  Starbucks to court: Hmmmm...no]]></summary><issued>2008-03-28T17:36:11+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-28T17:36:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[They are defying a court ruling and state that they will defend their stance in states other than California as well.<br/>[update to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/entertainment/food-and-drink/l/55105/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this</a>]<br/>*Use of the Starbucks logo and name does not imply ownership by Plime.  Please don't sue them.  Or me...I have no money.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Starbucks Ordered To Pay  $100 Million In Tips]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/55105/1/" /><id>55105</id><summary><![CDATA[Starbucks Ordered To Pay  $100 Million In Tips]]></summary><issued>2008-03-20T21:39:03+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-20T21:39:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Saying baristas were entitled to $86 million in back tips plus interest, San Diego Superior Court Judge Patricia Cowett also issued an injunction preventing Starbucks&#8217; shift supervisors from sharing in future tips.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Exorcism Case To Go To Supreme Court]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/70446/1/" /><id>70446</id><summary><![CDATA[Exorcism Case To Go To Supreme Court]]></summary><issued>2008-07-29T10:18:24+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-29T10:18:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving a woman's claims that she suffered physical, emotional, and mental damage from a 2-day violent exorcism when she was 17. Texas state court gave the church a blank ticket to do whatever they want because it would be religious practices.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Vaccine-Autism Link to be Debated in Court]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23424/1/" /><id>23424</id><summary><![CDATA[Vaccine-Autism Link to be Debated in Court]]></summary><issued>2007-06-11T11:06:41+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-11T11:06:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The first of nine cases filed by parents who claim a mercury-based preservative in vaccines caused their child's autism will soon go to court. There has been no link proven between vaccines and autism, but if the court decides in their favor, affected children could benefit from a trust fund.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Christian Group Calls for Boycott Over New Starbucks Logo]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/61991/1/" /><id>61991</id><summary><![CDATA[Christian Group Calls for Boycott Over New Starbucks Logo]]></summary><issued>2008-05-15T20:31:57+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-15T20:31:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Seems that one person&#8217;s smut is another person&#8217;s morning latte. A Christian group out of San Diego has found grounds for outrage over the new logo for Starbucks Coffee.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Recent Supreme Court Landmark Federal Sentencing Law Developments]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44495/1/" /><id>44495</id><summary><![CDATA[Recent Supreme Court Landmark Federal Sentencing Law Developments]]></summary><issued>2007-12-17T12:40:16+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-17T12:40:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[On December 10th the Supreme Court decided two companion cases that essentially hold that the Federal Sentencing guidelines really are just guidelines.  In other words, the sentencing court, after giving them consideration, is free to disregard them and impose the sentence the court thinks is appropriate in a given case.  To understand the significance of this development, here is a brief overview of the history of the sentencing guidelines.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[China Recalls Starbucks]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/36570/1/" /><id>36570</id><summary><![CDATA[China Recalls Starbucks]]></summary><issued>2007-09-24T13:44:58+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-24T13:44:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Forbidden City coffee shop replaces Starbucks]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court to consider death penalty for child rape]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/58060/1/" /><id>58060</id><summary><![CDATA[Supreme Court to consider death penalty for child rape]]></summary><issued>2008-04-13T11:16:17+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-13T11:16:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court this week hears arguments about whether the death penalty can be imposed for child rape, taking up for the first time in more than 30 years whether a crime other than murder can be punished by execution.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ten Commandments back in court]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57887/1/" /><id>57887</id><summary><![CDATA[Ten Commandments back in court]]></summary><issued>2008-04-11T10:43:47+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-11T10:43:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Supreme Court will consider whether putting them in a park means giving other religions a place in the sun too. When the Supreme Court ruled 46 years ago that official prayers in public schools violated the 1st Amendment, it infuriated those who claimed that public institutions should reflect the fact that this is &quot;one nation, under God&quot; -- the God of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, that is.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Court: Texas Wrongly Seized Polygamist Sect Children]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62808/1/" /><id>62808</id><summary><![CDATA[Court: Texas Wrongly Seized Polygamist Sect Children]]></summary><issued>2008-05-22T14:46:16+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-22T14:46:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;A state appellate court ruled Thursday that child welfare officials had no right to seize hundreds of children from a polygamist sect's ranch on April 3.&quot;<br/><br/>the saga continues...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Dog appears in Indian court charged with biting]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/70570/1/" /><id>70570</id><summary><![CDATA[Dog appears in Indian court charged with biting]]></summary><issued>2008-07-30T02:56:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-30T02:56:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A seven-year old mongrel has appeared in a local court in India's eastern Bihar state charged with breaching the peace by barking at passers-by and even biting some of them.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Why Starbucks actually helps mom and pop coffeehouses]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45504/1/" /><id>45504</id><summary><![CDATA[Why Starbucks actually helps mom and pop coffeehouses]]></summary><issued>2007-12-29T23:19:41+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-29T23:19:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The first time Herb Hyman spoke with the rep from Starbucks, in 1991, the life of his small business flashed before his eyes.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Teenage boy jailed for taking call in court]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62634/1/" /><id>62634</id><summary><![CDATA[Teenage boy jailed for taking call in court]]></summary><issued>2008-05-21T08:50:51+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-21T08:50:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A magistrate has jailed a teen for answering his mobile phone in court.<br/><br/>The 17-year-old let his mobile ring with the music of US rapper Akon before he answered the call while sitting in the front row of Darwin Magistrates Court yesterday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Court blocks NASA background checks]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/47185/1/" /><id>47185</id><summary><![CDATA[Court blocks NASA background checks]]></summary><issued>2008-01-14T09:10:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-14T09:10:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A federal appeals court ruled Friday that NASA should be blocked from conducting background checks on low-risk employees at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory, saying the practice threatens workers&#8217; constitutional rights.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man walks 25 miles to court for DUI sentencing]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/65264/1/" /><id>65264</id><summary><![CDATA[Man walks 25 miles to court for DUI sentencing]]></summary><issued>2008-06-13T01:34:12+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-13T01:34:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[CARLISLE, Pa. - A Pennsylvania man says he had one alternative when his brother didn't show up to give him a ride to court: start walking.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Fowl play prompts unusual court order]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57044/1/" /><id>57044</id><summary><![CDATA[Fowl play prompts unusual court order]]></summary><issued>2008-04-04T11:11:15+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-04T11:11:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A court has issued what could be at least a local first: an order of protection for a duck.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Arrested seal hunt protesters appear in court]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/58059/1/" /><id>58059</id><summary><![CDATA[Arrested seal hunt protesters appear in court]]></summary><issued>2008-04-13T11:12:26+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-13T11:12:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Two officers of the Farley Mowatt, an anti-sealing vessel seized by the Canadian government made a brief court appearance this morning.<br/><br/>If convicted, the two men could be jailed for up to one year, fined up to $100,000 -- or both.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[&quot;How Starbucks Saved My Life&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45482/1/" /><id>45482</id><summary><![CDATA[&quot;How Starbucks Saved My Life&quot;]]></summary><issued>2007-12-29T17:26:05+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-29T17:26:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;At his lowest point &#8212; brooding about how to support his young child and how to pay for medical care without health insurance &#8212; he stopped in a Starbucks on the Upper East Side to have one last latte.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Court issues arrest warrant for 'God']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/56067/1/" /><id>56067</id><summary><![CDATA[Court issues arrest warrant for 'God']]></summary><issued>2008-03-28T01:14:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-28T01:14:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Magistrate has issued an arrest warrant for a man who failed to turn up to court because he is &quot;God&quot; and above the law.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Court discovers man, 91, isn't fit for his sexual assault trial]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55226/1/" /><id>55226</id><summary><![CDATA[Court discovers man, 91, isn't fit for his sexual assault trial]]></summary><issued>2008-03-22T02:03:16+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-22T02:03:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Attorneys in the case of a 91-year-old Palisade man accused of sexual assault spent Wednesday morning in court trying to determine whether the aging man was fit to stand trial.<br/><br/>It turns out he wasn't.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[German court denies bald men state-funded wigs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19967/1/" /><id>19967</id><summary><![CDATA[German court denies bald men state-funded wigs]]></summary><issued>2007-05-11T23:03:13+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-11T23:03:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Bald men in Germany have no right to state-funded wigs, according to a new court ruling.]]></content></entry></feed>