• Texarkana restaurant moves for summary dismissal of the case of a woman allegedly injured when she slipped on peanut shells discarded on the floor. "Peanut shells, if any ... would be an open, obvious and unconcealed condition, and therefore, Defendant did not owe Plaintiff a duty to warn."
Lange v. Texas Roadhouse

• Civil liberties group sues South Carolina for approving "an explicitly Christian-themed specialty license plate" that "not only improperly advances and endorses religion, but also discriminates against citizens of other faiths because it fails to provide a comparable expressive outlet." Summers v. Adams

• New York judge orders Google/YouTube to turn over user log-on names and IP addresses as part of discovery in Viacom's copyright infringement suit. "Defendants do not refute that the 'login ID is an anonymous pseudonym' ... which without more 'cannot identify specific individuals.'” Viacom v. YouTube

• U.S. government files a motion to dismiss a suit against the operators of the Large Hadron Collider atom smasher in Switzerland. "Plaintiffs’ allegations ... are not accepted by the scientific community, are not based on rigorous scientific analysis, and are unfounded."

• Nebraska Supreme Court rules that a woman cannot seek a court order compelling her ex-husband to have a physical examination so she can take out an insurance policy on his life as security for his alimony obligations. "Such an order would have violated this state’s public policy of requiring an insured’s consent to a policy on his or her life." Davis v. Davis

• Kansas woman sues the Wild Oats organic grocery chain for selling her a defective "ear candle" that she used in an alternative medicine procedure. Anne Danaher's ear candling resulted in "severe conductive hearing loss," the complaint says.

• Pennsylvania appeals court finds that a will written on the cardboard panel of a cigarette carton is not valid. The will "lacked both a positive disposition of property and the testamentary intent of the decedent." In re: Estate of Shelly

• New York judge dismisses a defamation suit filed by a former New York Post gossip columnist against billionaire investor Ron Burkle and Burkle friends Bill and Hillary Clinton. The complaint "can most accurately be described as a political diatribe drawn by Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch, Inc., an avowed enemy of the Clintons." Stern v. Burkle

• Fox News employee sues the landlord of the network's New York headquarters for "allowing plaintiff's workspace to become infested with bed bugs," causing her to "sustain serious injuries and to have suffered pain, shock [and] mental anguish."
Clark v. Beacon Capital Partners