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Ruling near on threatened fish
Portland :: OR :: USA | 1 day ago
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Ore. — The federal judge getting ready to decide whether the government is doing enough to save Columbia River salmon will have a question for its lawyers Monday: If you have plans in your hip pocket in case the fish numbers crash, why not put those plans...
Tags: federal judge, Portland, Dam removal, Columbia River, Salmon, Chinook salmon, Endangered Species Act, James A. Redden, Oncorhynchus, Wild and Scenic Rivers of the United States, Environment, Endangered species, Portland Oregon, Politics
Hurricane Katrina: It was not an act of God
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility The US government could be facing a bill running to hundreds of billions of dollars after a federal judge ruled that failures by the US Army Corps of Engineers were responsible for the worst flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina. The Corps – which...
Tags: Hurricane Katrina, Army Corps of Engineers, US Army Corps, New Orleans, federal judge, Judge Stanwood Duval Jr., katrina flooding, navigational channel, judge rules, channel led, Lower Ninth Ward, Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal, Stanwood Duval, Levee, Politics, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Atlantic hurricane season, Disaster Accident, Law Crime, Ivor van Heerden, Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Intracoastal Waterway, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works controversies, Preparations for Hurricane Katrina, Greater New Orleans, St. Bernard Parish Louisiana, Business Finance, Weather, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, USS Hartford, Eggo, Polders
Judge rejects AT&T's bid to pull Verizon ads
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by AT&T Inc. to force competitor Verizon Wireless to pull its "There's a Map for That" commercials...AT&T filed the lawsuit in federal court in Atlanta earlier this month and asked for a temporary restraining...
Tags: AT&T Inc., Verizon Wireless, federal judge, Atlanta, 3G, Verizon Communications, Coverage, Apple Inc., Smartphones, IPhone, Multi-touch, Technology Internet, Law Crime, Business Finance, Somerset County New Jersey, Vodafone
Judge: CPS must discuss transfer options with Fenger students
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Fenger High School students who want to change schools because they feel unsafe following the beating death of a student. Ten Fenger students filed a lawsuit against the school system last week alleging that their right to a public education is being...
Tags: Chicago Public Schools, federal judge, beating death, Judge Robert Gettleman, Chicago, Robert William Gettleman, Derrion Albert, Year of birth unknown, John Peter Altgeld, Education, Law Crime, Altgeld Gardens Chicago
Corruption lands ex-Louisiana congressman 13 years
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Prosecutors called a former Louisiana congressman's corruption the most extensive in the history of Congress...William Jefferson, who famously hid $90,000 cash in his freezer, was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for taking bribes, the longest term...
Tags: William J. Jefferson, Mr. Jefferson, Andrea Jefferson, Louisiana, louisiana congressman, congressman william, public corruption, Africa, Ellis, federal judge, New Orleans, United States ambassadors to France, Bribery, William J. Jefferson, Randolph family of Virginia, Slavery in the United States, Thomas Jefferson, Law Crime, Duke Cunningham, Joseph Cao, Mose Jefferson, East Carroll Parish Louisiana, James Traficant, Abscam, Political corruption, Political scandals of the United States, Politics, Prosecution, Prosecutor, Jury, Criminal law, Law enforcement in the United States, Local government in the United States
Beatles catalog is temporarily banned from music website BlueBeat
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 16 days ago
Credibility A federal court in Los Angeles this week issued a temporary restraining order against a music website that recently had been offering the entire Beatles catalog for downloading at 25 cents per song. The Santa Cruz-based BlueBeat earlier in the week was...
Tags: beatles song, EMI, web sites, Bluebeat, cents apiece, federal judge, U.S, music website, sell beatles, recording label
FDA says companies violating flavored cigarette ban
Richmond :: VA :: USA | 17 days ago
Credibility U.S. regulators warned 10 companies for violating a recently enacted ban on sales of flavored cigarettes, letters released on Friday showed. The Food and Drug Administration told Clove Cigarettes Shop, Durango Smoke Shop Inc and the others to immediately...
Tags: drug administration, flavored cigarette, federal judge
Court rejects 'birther' suit
Santa Ana :: CA :: USA | 24 days ago
Credibility A federal judge in Santa Ana, Calif., has tossed out a lawsuit claiming President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and holds office illegally...Carter ruled Thursday federal courts are not constitutionally authorized to "overthrow a sitting...
Tags: Barack Obama, Carter, U.S, federal judge
Judge defers bail ruling on Madoff No. 2 DiPascali
New York City :: NY :: USA | 25 days ago
Credibility Epic fraudster Bernard Madoff's longtime deputy Frank DiPascali must stay in jail while a federal judge further considers whether to release him on bail, as the defendant and federal prosecutors have requested. U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in...
Tags: Bernard Madoff, Frank DiPascali, U.S, Judge Richard Sullivan, denied bail, federal judge
Ex-Commish Kerik Jailed Pending Corruption Trial
White Plains :: NY :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Calling Kerik "a toxic combination of self-minded focus and arrogance," Judge Stephen Robinson said he was revoking the $500,000 bail because Kerik disclosed sealed case information to the trustee of his legal defense fund. The trustee shared some of...
Tags: Bernard Kerik, Mr. Kerik, Bernie Kerik, police commissioner, New York City, New York Daily News, federal judge, sealed information, leaking sealed, commissioner bernard
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