Disney star Vanessa Hudgens sued by music producer

When you're famous, everybody wants a piece of your success.  She was in hot waters a while back with inappropriate pictures of her appearing on the internet, and now she is being sued for $27 million in...

Pentagon Sued Over Mandatory Christianity

If U.S. Constitutional law means anything at all, the forced imposition of Christianity in the American military is a clear violation of teh barriers between church and state.  All sorts of people including...

Court Rules Man's Right to Fish

"Missouri Court Opines “Hillbilly” Label a Compliment Lowell and Minnie want a divorce. Well, Lowell does (rather "did" ... this is a 1960 case). The grounds for divorce? "Indignities." The Circuit Court in Stone County, Missouri, gave it to him. Minnie appealed to...

Post details: A violation of state law is not a per se Fourth Amendment viola...

"An arrest in Oklahoma by Arkansas officials on an Arkansas arrest warrant violated the laws of both states, and, while a violation of state law may not be a constitutional violation, it could still be unreasonable, and that would make it violate the Fourth Amendment....

Animal Rights Extremists Charged With RICO and Conspiracy

"Feld Entertainment, Inc., which produces Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey(R), today filed a lawsuit against the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and a number of other animal...

California Bans Beckham's Former Boot

"Just days after David Beckham's California debut, the state's Supreme Court has upheld a ban on his former brand of kangaroo-skin boot. California's highest court barred athletic shoe maker Adidas from selling...

Catholic Archdiocese Of Los Angeles Offers $660m To Victims Of Abuse

"The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $660m (€478m) to 500 victims of sexual abuse dating back as far as the 1940s in the largest compensation deal of its kind. The settlement, which means victims will receive more than $1m each, is the largest...

Court rules in favor of domestic spying program

A sharply divided court in Cincinnati has decided that you can't sue the Federal Government for spying on you because you can never be sure that they are spying on you.  To know such information is a state...

Tenant Saves Her Landlord in Courtroom

You never know when you'll have to get your superhero on."A tenant in court defending herself from a civil complaint by her landlord suddenly had to shift gears. La Tina Osborne, a pediatric nurse, was speaking when she noticed that the plaintiff, Genevieve Zumuda, 77,...

Woman subjected to CIA experiments to get her day in court

This story sounds like a movie plot....but was actually part of a larger CIA op known as MKULTRA..."MONTREAL (CP) - A federal court judge will review the case of a Montreal woman unwittingly subjected to CIA...

Voters File Lawsuit to Halt Purchase, Use of All Touch-Screen Voting Machines...

June 1, 2006. The broadest complaint yet filed by humans to halt the march of the electronic voting machines. Should be worth watching.

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