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Scandal-plagued former Bell official sues city
Headline Legal News 11/01/2011Public outrage — and changed locks — forced Robert Rizzo out of a job last year, but the former city manager says he's still owed his $1.5 million salary and benefits. In a lawsuit against the city of Bell filed Monday, Rizzo claims he's owed his wag...
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Alabama immigration fight recalls civil rights era
Headline Legal News 10/31/2011The epicenter of the fight over the patchwork of immigration laws in the United States is not Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico and became a common site for boycotts. Nor was it any of the four states that were next to pass their own crackdo...
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Appeals court overturns key Cape Wind clearance
Headline Legal News 10/28/2011A federal appeals court has rejected the Federal Aviation Administration's ruling that the Cape Wind project's turbines present "no hazard" to aviation, overturning a vital clearance for the nation's first offshore wind farm. A decision Friday from t...
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Indiana, Planned Parenthood in court over funding
Headline Legal News 10/21/2011Planned Parenthood of Indiana can end a dispute over a law that would cut some of its public funding if it became two separate entities, with one offering abortion services and the other offering general health services, an attorney for the state tol...
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Artists sue auction houses over royalties law
Headline Legal News 10/21/2011Famed New York painter Chuck Close and other artists are suing Sotheby's, Christie's and eBay, contending the auctioneers willfully violated a California law requiring royalty payments on sales of their works. The three federal suits filed Tuesday se...
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Arpaio to testify about failed investigations
Headline Legal News 10/18/2011The self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America will appear in court Tuesday to testify about his failed corruption investigations against three public officials who claim the cases were trumped up. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will testify at ...
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High court appears to favor Ala. death row inmate
Headline Legal News 10/06/2011The tale of returned mail and a missed deadline might seem comical, if it did not involve a man trying to stave off execution. Supreme Court justices had harsh words Tuesday for lawyers who abandon their clients and a state legal system that does not...
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Court turns away appeal over commandments display
Headline Legal News 10/04/2011The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeal of an Ohio judge wanting to display a poster of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom. The display has been covered with a drape since a federal judge ordered Richland County Common Pleas Ju...
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High court to decide lawyer immunity question
Headline Legal News 09/27/2011The Supreme Court will decide whether private lawyers hired as outside counsels for governments can be sued. The high court on Tuesday agreed to hear lawyer Steve Filarsky's appeal. He was hired by the city of Rialto, Calif., to investigate the possi...
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Samsung seeks iPhone, iPad sale ban in Dutch court
Headline Legal News 09/24/2011Samsung asked a Dutch court Monday to slap an injunction on Apple Inc. to prevent it from selling iPhones and iPad tablets in the Netherlands, saying Apple does not have licenses to use 3G mobile technology in the devices. The legal battle is the lat...
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Court rules that UBS trader should stay in custody
Headline Legal News 09/22/2011An alleged rogue trader accused of losing Swiss banking giant UBS about $2.3 billion is "sorry beyond words," his lawyer said Thursday, as a judge ordered him to be held in jail until a hearing next month. Kweku Adoboli, 31, is charged with four offe...
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Guilty plea for Va. man in $318K Social Security fraud
Headline Legal News 09/09/2011A Bristol man has pleaded guilty to stealing Social Security benefits and making false statements in an attempt to hide the thefts. Seventy-one-year-old David Ross entered the plea Thursday in federal court in Abingdon. Ross faces a sentence of up to...