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Federal Signal and its Sirit unit have been sued in US District Court by Neology over six alleged breaches of Neology 6C patents. The lawsuit was filed today in the US court in Delaware where both companies are registered.

The lawsuit demands that Federal Signal and related companies such as its subsidiary Sirit cease manufacturing, marketing and selling the ISO 18000 6C protocol RFID tags, readers and systems.

Former chief executive (CEO) of the Maine Turnpike Authority Paul E Violette was today hit with a lawsuit demanding repayment of about half a million dollars it alleges that he cost them in alleged fraud and abuse between 2003 and 2011. Violette, a former Democrat Party politician was CEO at the state Turnpike from 1988 until March this year when he was forced to resign by a scandal unearthed by a legislative oversight agency.

The Ambassador Bridge company are set tomorrow to announce a set of moves they hope will open the way for them to settle their differences with Michigan DOT - differences that are threatening them with crippling fines and the jailing of their president, Dan Stamper.

A US District Court judge  last week ruled that the privately owned Ambassador Bridge company DIBC "is not a federal instrumentality or limited federal instrumentality or any type of arm, appendage, or agent of the federal government entitled to any immunity from state or local regulation."

IBTTA and Jeff Campbell the association's head of research until last year have settled, we understand. Campbell sued the IBTTA for wrongful dismissal based on a 'whistleblower' complaint he made against CEO Pat Jones. In the first round of litigation IBTTA's move for dismissal of the case failed.

Neither IBTTA nor Campbell are commenting on a  settlement. The settlement probably includes a no-publicity clause.

TOLLROADSnews 2011-05-24

Under heavy criticism from all quarters for a $325m rail station undergrounding cost to be put on Dulles Toll Road motorists, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) is now being challenged in the courts over the legality of its use of tolls for the $6+ billion rail line.  Prominent Virginia attorneys Patrick McSweeney, Robert Cynkar, Christopher Kachouroff have sued MWAA on behalf of John Corr of Great Falls NA and John Grigsby, of Hillsboro

Florida DOT, Faneuil and eight officials involved in toll collection on Florida's Turnpike are defendants in a class action suit that claims motorists paying with $20 bills and above were unlawfully detained on a systematic basis by toll collectors demanding identification and other "personal information" before the toll gate was raised.

Donald Kovac, a Pennsylvania Turnpike's manager of labor relations 2005 to 2008, did not make a case that he'd been improperly dismissed, Judge Terrence McVerry ruled in a US District Court ruling handed down in Pittsburgh today.