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  • New class action filed over US warrantless surveillance program

    New class action filed over US warrantless surveillance program

    U.S. Court News 09/22/2008

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday filed a class action lawsuit seeking injunctive, declaratory and equitable relief from the National Security Agency warrantless surveillance program, which gave government agencies access to over 300 ter...

  • Bush to sign disabilities bill passed by US House

    Bush to sign disabilities bill passed by US House

    U.S. Court News 09/19/2008

    A bill overwriting judicial interpretations which have narrowed protections under the Americans With Disabilities Act awaits President Bush's signature following passage by the US House of Representatives on Wednesday. The ADA Amendments Act of 2008,...

  • TSA Wins Ruling over Air Marshal's Text Leak

    TSA Wins Ruling over Air Marshal's Text Leak

    U.S. Court News 09/18/2008

    The Transportation Safety Agency did not violate an air marshal's due process rights when it disciplined him for leaking a text message to the media, the 9th Circuit ruled. Robert McLean received a text message in late July 2003 stating that there wo...

  • Pole Dance Teacher Sues City To Combat 'Pall Of Orthodoxy'

    Pole Dance Teacher Sues City To Combat 'Pall Of Orthodoxy'

    U.S. Court News 08/29/2008

    Adams Township unconstitutionally refused a permit to a woman who wants to open a "dance and fitness studio ... to teach women how to pole dance, power lap dance, and strip tease - all while fully clothed," Stephanie Babines claims in Federal Court. ...

  • San Francisco Mayor's Wife Says She Was Swindled

    San Francisco Mayor's Wife Says She Was Swindled

    U.S. Court News 08/26/2008

    Moviemakers swindled the mayor of San Francisco's wife out of $75,000 by promising she would act in and produce a film in China, then making another movie, without hiring her for anything and without repaying her "one cent," Jennifer Siebel claims in...

  • Prosecutors trying to get obese defendant to court

    Prosecutors trying to get obese defendant to court

    U.S. Court News 08/22/2008

    Prosecutors are trying to decide how to jail and bring to court a nearly half-ton, bedridden woman accused of killing her 2-year-old nephew.A grand jury on Thursday indicted Mayra Lizbeth Rosales, 27, on one count of first-degree murder and on one co...

  • Ninth Circuit upholds school policy on special education children

    Ninth Circuit upholds school policy on special education children

    U.S. Court News 08/20/2008

    The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a California public school district's policy that parents may only observe their disabled children in the classroom for twenty minutes in order to evaluate the school's proposed educatio...

  • Businessman Says Joe Arpaio Ruined Him

    Businessman Says Joe Arpaio Ruined Him

    U.S. Court News 08/18/2008

     Joe Arpaio, the publicity-hungry sheriff of Maricopa County, staged a media event by bursting into a man's home and accusing him of running an illegal chop shop, though Arpaio was simply serving a warrant for an unpaid traffic ticket, a man cla...

  • Pakistani woman alleged to be al-Qaeda appears in US court

    Pakistani woman alleged to be al-Qaeda appears in US court

    U.S. Court News 08/07/2008

    The first woman scheduled to stand trial in the US on charges related to suspected al-Qaeda ties has been extradited to the US and appeared before the District Court for the Southern District of New York Tuesday on terrorism charges. Aafia Siddiqui, ...

  • ICE launches voluntary deportation program

    ICE launches voluntary deportation program

    U.S. Court News 08/06/2008

    US Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched a new program Tuesday that allows certain illegal immigrants to coordinate their removal from the US with ICE without the risk of home raids, arrest or detention. The Scheduled Departure Program, a pilo...

  • Third Circuit rules on confiscation of materials

    Third Circuit rules on confiscation of materials

    U.S. Court 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

    U.S. Court 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...

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