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Court Ruling: Rules Blocking Disclosure By Kochs, Rove, Chamber Invalid

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Transparency, Van Hollen v. Fec, Video, Chris Van Hollen, Koch Brothers, Disclosure, Federal Election Commission, Chamber of Commerce, Citizens United, US District Court, Crossroads GPS, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- On Friday evening, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling that could begin the process of revealing the id...

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Gulf Coast Wants The RESTORE Act Passed Before A Potential BP Settlement

Susan Buchanan | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Oil Rigs, New Orleans, U.S. Justice Dept., Bp, U.S. District Court, Exxon-Valdez Spill, Bill Nungesser, Senator Mary Landrieu, Tulane University, Plaquemines Parish, Clean Water Act, Congressman Steve Scalise, Morgan Stanley, Congressional Budget Office, Oil Pollution Act, Wildlife, Seafood, Green News
Susan Buchanan

Congressional delegates from Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states hope the bipartisan RESTORE Act will be passed soon and before a possible BP settlement with the feds so that BP fines go to coastal states and not Washington's coffers.

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FDA Staffers Sue Agency Over Surveillance Of Personal E-mail

The Washington Post | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Freedom of Information Act, Robert C. Smith, Erica Jefferson, Fda, U.S. District Court, Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Technology News

The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that t...

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Alexandria Man Faces Charges In Pentagon Shootings

AP | By MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Virginia, Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery, Military, U.S. District Court, Crime, Yonathan Melaku, Pentagon Shooter, Marine Corps, DC News

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The lawyer for an ex-Marine Corps reservist accused of firing shots at the Pentagon and other military targets last year says his c...

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Goldman Sachs Sued By Regulator Over Risky Mortgages

AP | ALEX VEIGA | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Investment Bank, U.S. District Court, National Credit Union Administration, Ncua, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Mortgage-Backed Securities, Financial Regulation, Credit Unions, Royal Bank of Scotland PLC, Business News

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. regulator of credit unions on Tuesday sued Goldman Sachs & Co. for more than $491 million in damages over losses incurred...

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Report: Judge Turned A Blind Eye To Wrongful Convictions

AP | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Exoneration, Prison Reform, Life Sentence, Percy Anderson, Federal Judge, US District Court, Daily Journal, Los Angeles, Crime News

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in Los Angeles allowed reports indicating inmates might have been wrongly convicted to languish for years, saying ...

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Art Dealer And 'Career Con Man' To Be Sentenced

AP | By LAURA CRIMALDI | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Rocco Desimone, Money Laundering, Art, Johnston Rhode Island, Con Man, U.S. District Court, Mail Fraud, Rhode Island, Crime News

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A former Rhode Island art dealer convicted of defrauding a wide range of investors – from a wealthy collector of Japanese sw...

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Starbucks Wins Dismissal Of Worker Tips Lawsuit

Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Starbucks, Tips, Long Island, Class Action Lawsuit, US District Court, Lawsuit, New York, Winans Et Al vs. Starbucks, Business News

NEW YORK (Jonathan Stempel) - Starbucks Corp on Monday won dismissal of a lawsuit by former assistant store managers in New York who accused the w...

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The Latest Ex-Traders Found Guilty Of Insider Fraud

Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Fraud, Securities Traders, 3Com Corp, Insider Trading, Raj Rajaratnam, Wall Street, U.S. District Court, Zvi Goffer, Fbi, Emanuel Goffer, Galleon Group, Incremental Capital LLC, Mergers, Axcan Pharma Inc, Michael Kimelman, Video, Business News

NEW YORK (Grant McCool) - Three former securities traders were convicted on Monday on all counts of fraud and conspiracy to commit insider tradin...

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Lawsuit Alleges Veterans Affairs Is Leaving L.A. Vets Out In The Cold

The New York Times | Adam Nagourney | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Mental Disorder, Veterans Affairs, Housing, Homeless Veterans, Homelessness, West Los Angeles Medical Center, US District Court, Ptsd, Los Angeles, Lawsuit, Impact News

LOS ANGELES — It is a 387-acre campus of green fields and buildings in a prosperous Los Angeles neighborhood, donated to the federal government over...

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Gagosian Dragged To Court For Brutality Suit On Eve Of James Franco Show

ARTINFO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Law, The Academy Awards, Art, NY Culture, Artinfo, Gucci, NY Around Town, US District Court, James Franco, Gagosian Gallery, Arts News
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NEW YORK--Ingrid Homberg, the 59-year-old woman whom a police officer roughly ejected from Gagosian's Anselm Kiefer show last year after she became en...

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What The Flap Over Health Care Tells Us About American Religion

Richard T. Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Health Care Reform, Health Care Court Case, US District Court, Health Care Law, Health Care, Religion News
Richard T. Hughes

Many Christians denounce the health care law as a tool of the devil and support its repeal. In light of what Jesus taught, I find that position puzzling.

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Al-Awlaki Decision Leaves Key Questions Unanswered

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jihad, Anwar Al Awlaki, Executive Order, Harold Koh, Assassination, John Bates, Obama, US District Court, Anwar-Al-Aulaqi, Drones, Targeted Killing, State Department, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Daphne Eviatar

Under what circumstances is the U.S. government allowed to target for death an individual suspected of participating in terrorism in a foreign country where we are not actively engaged in a war?

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Justice by Whatever Name

Anthony DePalma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 9/11 Memorial, US District Court, Kirsten Gillibrand, Health, Ground Zero, New York News
Anthony DePalma

The painful controversy over what happened to James Zadroga underscores the very real problems that have prolonged the anguish caused by the dust of ground zero long after the dust itself has been washed away.

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Sierra Club -- What Hast Thou Wrought and at Whose Cost?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fertilizer, Mosaic Co., World Food Shortages, Green, Enviromental Impact Statement, Phosphate Mining, US District Court, Sierra Club, US Army Corps of Engineers, World News, Russia's Wheat Embargo, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

The Sierra Club wishes to close down the operations of a fertilizer producer. But do the economic and social pros and cons balance out, and if not, what can be done to bring greater equanimity to these confrontations?

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SEC Charges 6 Men In $300M Ponzi scheme with Colorado ties

Denver Business Journal | Renee McGaw | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ponzi Scheme, Colorado, Sec, U.S. District Court, Gold Mining, Denver News

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Wolves Win: Federal Court Reinstates Protections

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Montana, Humane Society of the United States, Bush Administration, Rocky Mountains, U.S. District Court, Puppy Mills, Great Lakes, Missouri, Wolves, Endangered Species, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Idaho, Ken Salazar, Endangered Species Act, Gray Wolf, Rockies, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

It's been a big week for canines. I announced on the blog yesterday that the puppy mill initiative we're promoting with partner organizations had qual...

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Gay Marriage: The Tide is Turning And There's No Going Back

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Judge Vaughn Walker, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage Equality, U.S. District Court, U.S. Supreme Court, A, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Peter Dreier

All trends regarding public sentiment and views towards the LGBT community indicate that the time when conservatives can use same-sex marriage as a "wedge" issue is coming to an end.

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Frank DiPascali, Madoff's Ex-Finance Chief, Released On Bail In NYC

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Frank DiPascali, Ponzi Scheme, Fbi, Bernard Madoff, US District Court, Bernie Madoff, Bernie Madoff Victims, Business News

NEW YORK — The former finance chief for jailed financier Bernard Madoff was released on $10 million bail Tuesday, months after he admitted his r...

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House Kills Plan to Close Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Congress, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Greg Craig, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Judge James Robertson, Guantanamo, Prisoner of War, Taliban, Judge Thomas Hogan, US District Court, House Armed Services Committee, Barack Obama, World News, Al Qaeda, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Adham Mohammed Ali Awad, Omar Deghayes, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Musa'ab Al-Madhwani, Closing Guantanamo, Bush Administration, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The House Armed Services Committee turned down the Obama's administration's request for some $350 million intended to close Guantánamo and buy a new prison in Illinois.

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Kristen Parker, Surgical Tech, Gets 30 Years For Infecting Patients With Hepatitis

AP | Jennifer Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Surgical Tech Kristen Parker, US District Court, Denver, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis Infection, Denver News

DENVER — A surgery technician who infected about three dozen people with hepatitis C after she injected herself with painkiller-filled syringes ...

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Acquitted Death Row Inmate Files $360M Lawsuit After 17 Years In Prison

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, False Imprisonment, Wrongful Conviction Lawsuit, U.S. District Court, Chicago Police Department, Chicago News

A Chicago man acquitted of murder after spending more than 17 years in prison filed a federal lawsuit Monday that seeks more than $360 million dollars...

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Skywalker Lawsuit: Star Wars Filmmakers Sue Local Billboard Company 'Skywalker Outdoors'

Chicago Breaking News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Luke Skywalker, Copyright, U.S. District Court, Lucasfilms, Star Wars, Copyright Law, Skywalker Outdoors, Anakin Skywalker, Chicago News

The company that produced the Star Wars films is suing a local Chicago billboard company in federal court for using the term Skywalker on billboards a...

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Swiss Take Two Guantanamo Uighurs, Solve Obama's Problem

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, War on Terror, World, Arkin Mahmud, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Greg Craig, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, US District Court, State Department, Barack Obama, Uighurs, World News, Dick Cheney, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Guantanamo Uighurs, Bush Administration, U.S. Court of Appeals, Switzerland, Bahtiyar Mahnut, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Breaking Politics News, Sabin Willett, Closing Guantanamo, Advocacy, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Obama is fortunate to have such kind allies, but he himself is the loser, the longer he refuses to tackle those who insist, in the face of overwhelming evidence, that everyone who was held at Guantánamo was a "terrorist."

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New Defense For Crooked Brokers: Our Industry Is Corrupt

Dan Solin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banking, Julia Tzolov, U.S. District Court, Credit Suisse, Finance, Eric Butler, Business News
Dan Solin

It has long been my view that no one should have an account with a retail brokerage firm. They don't have any of the skills they purport to have, like market timing, stock picking or fund manager picking.

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