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Goldman Sachs Seizing Homes Subprime Mortgages Bought

McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Mtglq, Cases, Hank Paulson, Lawsuits, Middle Class, Suits, Goldman Sachs Subsidiaries, Housing Crisis, Working Class, Goldman Sachs, Judge Roger Efremsky, Lenders, Home Prices, Foreclosure, Subprime, Repossession, Roger Efremsky, Ge, Mortgage Brokers, Mortgage Crisis, Homeowners, Securities Exchange Commission, WMC Mortgage Corp, Judge William Aslup, Wall Street, GE Money, Wiliam Aslup, Henry Paulson, Banks, Sec, Subsidiaries, Business News

Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packa...

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If You're Gonna Call Someone A Skank, Be Sure to Say Who's Calling

Disgrasian | Posted 09.28.2009 | Technology

Read More: Models, Nyc, Rosemary Port, Flaming, Anonymous, Lawsuits, Liskula Cohen, Anonymity, New York, Google, Technology News
Disgrasian

By now you've probably heard the story: Former model Liskula Cohen, 37, subpoenas Google in January, in pursuit of a defamation suit "concerning her a...

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Do Homeless People Have Rights?

Christine Schanes | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ada, Rights, Disabled, Homelessness, Causes, Lawsuits, Homeless People, Aclu, Chronically Homeless People, Children Helping Poor and Homeless People, Politics News
Christine Schanes

If every city with an insufficient number of shelter beds were to pass an ordinance against sleeping in all public places, there would be no place for a homeless person to sleep.

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More Nuttiness on the Obama Birth Certificate Non-Issue

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Barack Obama Birth Certificate Controversy, Presidency, Lawsuits, Obama Birth Certificate, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The cases won't go anywhere but that's less important than the attention, publicity, and mischief making that the frivolous Obama hounders can cause.

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Victim of Racist Attack Awarded $2.5 Million

Kety Esquivel | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, Law, Law Enforcement, Hate Crimes, Kkk, Jordan Gruver, Lawsuits, Hispanics, Race, Ku Klux Klan Recruit, Racial Epithet, Immigration Reform, Latino Politics, Death Threat, Nclr, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Online, Kentucky, E-Mail, National Council of La Raza, Hate Speech, Bankrupt, Immigration Policy, Immigration Debate, Klansmen, Gruver, Politics News
Kety Esquivel

Gruver was attacked by Klansmen at a Kentucky fair in 2006. He was in line at a concession stand at the Meade County Fair when two Klansmen... threw whiskey in his face.

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Revenge of the Wives

Midwin Charles | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Jim McGreevey, Dina Matos Divorce, Charlie Crist, Peter Cook, Christie Brinkley, Divorce, Barbara Walters, Lawsuits, Child Support, Eliot Spitzer, Public Divorce Hearings, Christie Brinkley Divorce, Brinkley Cook Divorce, Dina Matos McGreevy, Divorce Court, Brinkley Public Divorce, Public Divorce Hearing, Media News
Midwin Charles

Both Christie Brinkley and DIna Matos McGreevey took their marital grievances to the most public forum possible. Brinkley even requested her divorce hearing be made public.

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The Real Story Behind the Batman, Turkey Lawsuit

Scott Mendelson | Posted 12.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Michelle Obama, Turkey, The Dark Knight, Feminism, Batman, Honor Killing, Movies, Films, Warner Bros, Lawsuits, Huseyin Kalkan, Tim Burton, Christopher Nolan, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

The Mayor of Batman, Turkey is suing Warner Bros and Chris Nolan for not getting permission to use the name 'Batman.' Absurd, insane, ridiculous, right? Well of course, but the truth is far more disturbing.

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Consumer Safety Lawsuits May Be Blocked For Years Under Bush's Proposed Rule Changes

WSJ | ALICIA MUNDY | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Product Safety, Consumer Safety, Advocacy, Lawsuits, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Bush administration officials, in their last weeks in office, are pushing to rewrite a wide array of federal rules with changes or addit...

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Jackson Browne Sues GOP And McCain Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jackson Browne, Browne Mccain, Running on Empty, Lawsuits, Mccain Running on Empty, McCain Lawsuit, Jackson Browne Mccain, Jackson Browne Sues Mccain, Mccain Jackson Browne, Jackson Brown Mccain, Jackson Brown Sues Mccain, Jackson Brown, Jackson Browne John Mccain, Politics News

***UPDATE*** McCain Campaign spokesman Brian Rogers responds to the lawsuit filed by Jackson Browne: This campaign has never run any ad using any por...

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Crime, Punishment and ExxonMobil

Robert Weissman | Posted 07.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Tort, Civil Justice, Lawsuits, Climate Change, Corporate Crime, Corporate Accountability, Global Warming, Exxon Valdez, Business News
Robert Weissman

The direct precedential value of the Exxon decision will cast an ominous shadow over state and federal court decisions on punitive damages for years to come.

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Piling on Angelo Mozilo???

Jim Randel | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Housing Crisis., Federal Reserve, Foreclosure, Angelo Mozilo, Countrywide, Lawsuits, Housing Crisis, Business News
Jim Randel

I worry when we as a society turn over-zealous in looking to personalize and find villains for problems (the housing bust and credit crunch) for which we all have responsibility.

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Larry King Sues Insurance Brokerage Over Sale Of $15 Million Worth Of Policies

Mediabistro's TV Newser | Chris Ariens | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Lawsuits, The Smoking Gun, Cnn, Larry King, Media News

The Smoking Gun has the documents related to a lawsuit filed by CNN's Larry King. King claims that an "unscrupulous insurance brokerage swindled him i...

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"God" Reponds To Lawsuit Filed In Nebraska

AP | NATE JENKINS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Courts, Lawsuits, Nebraska, God, Home News

God has apparently responded to a lawsuit filed by a Nebraska lawmaker, and one of the filings seems to have dropped in from the heavens. "This one mi...

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