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  • Third Circuit rules on confiscation of materials

    Third Circuit rules on confiscation of materials

    National News 08/01/2008

    The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Thursday affirmed a decision to dismiss claims filed by fifteen current and former inmates alleging that various employees of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections violated their constitutional ri...

  • United Airlines Takes on Pilots Union

    United Airlines Takes on Pilots Union

    National News 07/31/2008

    United Airlines wants to put an end to a pilot union's campaign to pressure the airline into reopening union negotiations by urging pilots to refuse voluntary flight assignments and to participate in an organized "sick-out," which forced United to ca...

  • Bush Approves Military Death Sentence

    Bush Approves Military Death Sentence

    National News 07/30/2008

    President Bush approved the death sentence of Pvt. Ronald Gray, thefirst execution by the military since 1961. The former Army cook wasconvicted by court-martial of two murders and an attempted murder,among other offenses, while serving at Fort Bragg...

  • Actor's Pet Food Co. Sues over Contamination

    Actor's Pet Food Co. Sues over Contamination

    National News 07/29/2008

    Actor and self-professed animal lover Dick Van Patten, owner of Nature Balance Pet Foods, joined the fray of litigants suing over the massive 2007 pet-food recalls spurred by tainted wheat gluten and rice protein from China. Wilbur-Ellis Co. continue...

  • Fundamentalist Mormon Leader Indicted

    Fundamentalist Mormon Leader Indicted

    National News 07/23/2008

    Six men in the fundamentalist Mormon "Yearning for Zion" compound were indicted Tuesday on charges of sexual assault and bigamy, including the group's leader, Warren Jeffs. Jeffs, who is in an Arizona jail on separate charges, is charged with first-d...

  • LA's 'Black Widows' Get Life In Prison For Murders

    LA's 'Black Widows' Get Life In Prison For Murders

    National News 07/17/2008

    Two elderly women dubbed the "Black Widows" of Los Angeles were sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing two homeless men whom they housed for two years before murdering them in hit-and-run crashes in order to collect $2.8 million in li...

  • Hotel Chain Wouldn't Rent To Black Family, Man Says

    Hotel Chain Wouldn't Rent To Black Family, Man Says

    National News 07/14/2008

    The Clarion Hotel in Scranton refused to rent rooms to a black family though it had 52 vacant rooms, and its desk clerk admitted that she would not rent to them because they are black, the family claims in Federal Court. Eric Davis and his family als...

  • Bank Of America Seeks Protection

    Bank Of America Seeks Protection

    National News 07/09/2008

    Bank of America claims members of a "radical anti-tax group" filed bogus papers in court and attempted to "seize" and "foreclose" upon two BofA branch banks. Members of The United Cities Group wore false badges from the "Treasury Department" during t...

  • Report shows law firm mergers are up

    Report shows law firm mergers are up

    National News 07/08/2008

    The second quarter of this year saw the pace of law firm mergers rise sharply in the U.S., according to a new report from legal consultancy Altman Weil Inc. There were 26 new law firm mergers and acquisitions reported in April, May and June, compared...

  • Ruling Limits Courts' Role In Environmental Review

    Ruling Limits Courts' Role In Environmental Review

    National News 07/07/2008

    Three people are accused of beating, torturing and prostituting a mentally disabled teen. Waquita "Goddess" Wallace, 33, Richard Marquis Harper, 20, and a woman identified only as "April" were charged in federal court with sex trafficking by force, f...

  • Texas Fired Her For Dissing 'Creationism'

    Texas Fired Her For Dissing 'Creationism'

    National News 07/03/2008

    The longtime director of science curriculum claims the Texas Education Agency illegally fired her because she forwarded an email announcing a lecture by a speaker who opposes teaching creationism in science classes. Christina Castillo Comer claims th...

  • Fidelity Director May Be Liable For Insider Trading

    Fidelity Director May Be Liable For Insider Trading

    National News 07/02/2008

    The 9th Circuit reversed and remanded a ruling for attorney J. Thomas Talbot, a member of the board of directors of Fidelity National Financial, who was accused of insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Judge Wardlaw found that Ta...

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