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  • Canadian mining company settles with Alaska Eskimos

    Canadian mining company settles with Alaska Eskimos

    Recent Cases 09/05/2008

    Canadian-based Teck Cominco Ltd. asked US District Court Judge John Sedwick Wednesday to approve a $120M settlement agreement with six Eskimo plaintiffs from the Alaskan village of Kivalino. The agreement stems from a 2002 lawsuit filed in the US Dis...

  • Wextrust Is A $225 Million Ponzi Scheme The SEC Says

    Wextrust Is A $225 Million Ponzi Scheme The SEC Says

    Recent Cases 09/04/2008

    Joseph Shereshevsky, a felon, and his partner Steven Byers fraudulently raised $225 million from nearly 1,200 investors, the SEC claims in Federal Court. The SEC says the men are running a Ponzi scheme through Wextrust Capital, other Wextrust entitie...

  • Harass A Republican, Lose Your Phone

    Harass A Republican, Lose Your Phone

    Recent Cases 09/02/2008

    Ramsey County has obtained an emergency order allowing it to order telephone companies to turn over the names and numbers of anyone who makes harassing phone calls during the Republican National Convention, and to cut off those people's phone service...

  • Racism Alleged In Bizarre Punishment

    Racism Alleged In Bizarre Punishment

    Recent Cases 08/28/2008

    Top administrators at a Camden middle school forced an entire bilingual class of Hispanic children to eat on the cafeteria floor for a week because one student accidentally spilled some water, and when the teacher complained, the principal and vice p...

  • EPA Can Inspect Ship for Chemicals, Court Rules

    EPA Can Inspect Ship for Chemicals, Court Rules

    Recent Cases 08/27/2008

    The Environmental Protection Agency can inspect a former U.S. Navy hospital ship for toxic chemicals, the 4th circuit ruled. The EPA was issued a warrant under the Toxic Substances Control Act to board the M/V Sanctuary, built in 1944, to test for po...

  • Court upholds sentence for I-65 sniper

    Court upholds sentence for I-65 sniper

    Recent Cases 08/24/2008

    An attorney for 19-year-old Zachariah Blanton had appealed the sentence as inappropriate, arguing that the shooting “was a more or less routine act of manslaughter, if such a thing is said to exist.”But in an eight-page ruling, the court disagreed, n...

  • City of New York reaches settlement in unlawful arrest suit

    City of New York reaches settlement in unlawful arrest suit

    Recent Cases 08/21/2008

    The City of New York agreed to pay approximately $2 million to settle a lawsuit brought by protesters who had claimed they had been illegally arrested, according to Tuesday statements made by the city's Law Department. In April 2003, city police arre...

  • Fifth Circuit rules on jurors using Bible

    Fifth Circuit rules on jurors using Bible

    Recent Cases 08/15/2008

    The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus to convicted murder Khristian Oliver, who had argued that his Sixth and Eighth Amendment rights were violated when the jury took Bible passages into ac...

  • Unsafe Practices Alleged At Firing Range

    Unsafe Practices Alleged At Firing Range

    Recent Cases 08/14/2008

    Andrews International, which runs a purportedly "lead-free" firing range in Burbank, fired its managers for protesting that company owner Randy Andrews repeatedly allowed lead bullets to be fired there, including a case where actor Brendan Andrews fi...

  • Woman Says Northwestern Won't Protect Her

    Woman Says Northwestern Won't Protect Her

    Recent Cases 08/13/2008

    A student claims that after she was raped by a fellow student, Northwestern University violated its own rules and delayed taking action against her rapist, subjecting her to further, distressing contact with him. Plaintiff Sarah Poe sued Northwestern...

  • VA Properly Denied Voter Registration, Court Rules

    VA Properly Denied Voter Registration, Court Rules

    Recent Cases 08/12/2008

    The Department of Veterans Affairs was fair in its denial of a Democratic group's attempt to register voters at one of its buildings, the 9th Circuit ruled. Judge Graber found that the district court erred when it ruled Steven Preminger and the Santa...

  • SEC investigating bank over auction-rate securities sales

    SEC investigating bank over auction-rate securities sales

    Recent Cases 08/11/2008

    The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. disclosed Friday in its quarterly report that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating possible breaches of procedure by one of the bank's subsidiaries in auction-rate securities sales and purchases. A...

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