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Monday, November 29, 2010 Last Update: 1:57 PM PT. 7th Circuit Rules for Splinter Baha'i Group. CN) - Worshippers who claim to be orthodox Baha'i believers are not tied to a 1966 judgment barring an earlier splinter group from associating with the Baha'i faith, the 7th Circuit ruled. The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'i won an injunction 44 years ago against a dissident group called the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States of America Under the Hereditary Guardianship.
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Thursday, April 01, 2010 Last Update: 9:41 AM PT. County Challenges Electronic Voting System. MINEOLA, N.Y. (CN) - Nassau County and its Republican and Democratic Elections Commissioners sued New York State for requiring that pull-lever voting machines "trusted" for more than a century be replaced with "computerized voting technology that is notoriously vulnerable to systemic hacking, tampering, manipulation and malfunction.". The county claims that a transition to computerized systems would subject New ...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Last Update: 10:59 AM PT. Vets' Claims Over CIA Experiments Survive. CN) - A federal judge in San Francisco has given the green light to an action by Vietnam vets saying the CIA prevented roughly 7,000 human subjects from getting medical care after they were subjected to experiments on mind control, implantation of electronics and the effects of exotic drugs. At the same time, she dismissed the challenge to the legality of the CIA's human testing program of the 1950s and '60s.
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Friday, June 03, 2011 Last Update: 12:17 PM PT. Judge Approves Google's $8.5M Buzz Settlement. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A federal judge issued final approval for an $8.5 million class-action settlement brought on by 31 million Gmail users who sued Google for their exposing personal information without their consent through a feature called Google Buzz. The details of this settlement in November.
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Monday, December 03, 2012 Last Update: 11:55 AM PT. Mom Loses Suit Over Daughter's H1N1 Vaccine. ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) - A mother who says public health officials in St. Lawrence County immunized her young daughter without her consent cannot sue, a New York appeals court ruled. Upon declaration of a public health emergency, the federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act pre-empts state tort claims, according to the six-page ruling from the Third Judicial Department of Appellate Division. Jennife...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012 Last Update: 12:03 PM PT. Wind Farm Called Giant Pain in the Neck. ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) - Dozens of neighbors of a $200 million wind farm sued the companies behind it, claiming noise and lights give them migraines, make them nervous and keep them up at night. Read Courthouse News' Environmental Law Review. Their dogs bark too much, dairy cows are less productive, and TV and Internet services are interrupted, the 60 plaintiffs claim in Albany County Supreme Court. The 74-megawatt pr...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2015 Last Update: 2:36 PM PT. Los Angeles Agrees to Sweeping Jail Reforms. LOS ANGELES (CN) - Los Angeles County has agreed to "historic" reforms of its jails to protect mentally ill inmates from suicide and excessive force at the hands of jailers, the Justice Department said Wednesday. In a statement, U.S. Attorney Eileen Decker said the federal government will "vigorously protect" inmates who "must depend on jail officials for their most basic needs and safety.". The US. Attor...
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Friday, December 21, 2012 Last Update: 6:36 AM PT. Woman Decries Bias at Mormon-Led Company. SALT LAKE CITY (CN) - The nation's largest shooting range equipment maker discriminated against an employee because she's not Mormon, and the CEO told her "women should not get educations, unless it was to make them better mothers," she claims in court. Tara Johnson sued Action Target in Federal Court. The company is the only named defendant. The company "employed a very small percentage of female employees," Joh...
