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U.S. / NEWS Wed Nov 28, 2007 @ 2:54pm neoform

CNN -- A quarter of Blackwater security guards in Iraq use steroids and other "judgment-altering substances," according to a lawsuit filed by the families of several Iraqis killed or wounded in a Baghdad shooting in September. Blackwater denies the charges... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 27, 2007 @ 2:25pm neoform

Salon -- Dan Rather's complaint against CBS and Viacom, its parent company, filed in New York state court on Sept. 19 and seeking $70 million in damages for his wrongful dismissal as "CBS Evening News" anchor, has aroused hoots of derision from a host of commentat.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 20, 2007 @ 3:22pm neoform

Ars Technica -- A federal judge in New Mexico has put the brakes on the RIAA's lawsuit train, at least in the US District Court for New Mexico. The case in question is part of the RIAA's campaign against file-sharing on college campuses and names "Does 1-16," who alleged.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 9:32am neoform

ABC News -- Three years ago the Smalkowski family moved to an 80-acre ranch in Oklahoma, and Nicole Smalkowski, who was 13 years old at the time, was excited about it. "We have a whole bunch of land that's ours, you can walk on it, you can camp on your own land.".. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 8, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

Yahoo News -- Twelve gay and lesbian veterans who were dismissed under the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to reinstate their lawsuit challenging the policy. In arguments before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 21, 2007 @ 10:17am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Michael Moore won a round Tuesday in a court battle with the brother of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, but the plaintiff's lawyer said she is considering whether to take the case to the Supreme Court. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of App.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Feb 10, 2007 @ 5:50pm neoform

Christian Science Monitor -- Sixteen months after his divorce, Richard Parker made a devastating discovery. A DNA test revealed that his 3-year-old son had been fathered by someone else. Mr. Parker immediately filed a lawsuit claiming fraud by his apparently unfaithful ex-wife. He.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 23, 2007 @ 1:22pm neoform

Houston Chronicle -- A judge on Monday rejected the city's effort to keep secret most of the files and videotapes documenting the arrests of hundreds of protesters at the 2004 Republican National Convention... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 9, 2007 @ 8:09am neoform

MSNBC -- A man who donated sperm so that his fiancee could be inseminated is suing an Oregon hospital that gave the sample to the wrong woman... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Dec 18, 2006 @ 9:31pm neoform

New York Times -- One night in mid-April, the steel door clanked shut on detainee No. 200343 at Camp Cropper, the United States military’s maximum-security detention site in Baghdad... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Nov 17, 2006 @ 4:31pm mrmdc

Washington Post -- O.J. Simpson's forthcoming book, "If I Did It," could launch a profitable new series for publisher Judith Regan and her parent company, Rupert Murdoch's media empire. Let me suggest that she follow up with another snuff book, maybe "If I Shot My Wife.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 9, 2006 @ 8:55pm neoform

ABC News -- Though he is now the former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld is expected to be accused of war crimes in a lawsuit to be filed next week in Germany... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Oct 29, 2006 @ 12:12am neoform

Northwest Florida Daily News -- An Amish couple filed a lawsuit, something that runs counter to their principles of nonresistance, to safeguard another cherished belief, that having their photo taken is against the Bible... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 1, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- Attorneys for the church maintained in closing arguments Tuesday that the burial was a public event and that even abhorrent points of view are protected by the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech and religion. Several states have passed.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Thu Sep 27, 2007 @ 3:04pm neoform

Media Matters -- At first, I was wondering whose blood was boiling hotter last week when former CBS news anchor Dan Rather announced he had filed a $70 million lawsuit against his former employer in response to Rather's unceremonious CBS exit following the botched 60 Minu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 19, 2007 @ 4:35pm neoform

CNN -- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by outed spy Valerie Plame and her husband against Vice President Dick Cheney and other top Bush administration officials. Plame had accused members of the Bush administration of leaking her identity. To disclose cl.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jul 11, 2007 @ 8:30pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Two black shoppers have sued Toys "R" Us saying they were subjected to racial discrimination and unjustified scrutiny at a store in New York. Patricia Drayton and Valerie Kirk said in the lawsuit that the store in The Bronx, a borough of New York City,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 6, 2007 @ 1:36pm neoform

MSNBC -- A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging President Bush’s domestic spying program, saying the plaintiffs had no standing to sue. In a 2-1 decision, two Republican appointees on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of App.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 12:16am neoform

CNN -- A multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a dry cleaners has focused on the term "satisfaction guaranteed" and where to draw the line when a customer demands satisfaction over a pair of trousers he says were lost. The customer, and plaintiff, is District o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 8:32am neoform

Forbes -- Illegal immigrants who worked long shifts scrubbing theme restaurants for an indicted janitorial firm have signed their names to a lawsuit seeking unpaid wages. Some of the plaintiffs were rounded up in federal workplace raids in February and deported.. Read More