Hazleton: Dismiss Lawsuit: City Claims Those Challenging Immigration Laws Not Entitled to Constitutional Protections.
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By Terrie Morgan-Besecker, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Feb. 3--HAZLETON -- Attorneys for the city are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that challenges the city's Illegal Immigration Relief Act.
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A civil rights group sued the U.S. government on Tuesday seeking to end what it said was a policy of drugging some immigrants facing deportation proceedings.
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OAKLAND -- A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Oakland homeowners against the city's fire tax assessment district.   Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch last week ruled there was "good cause" to throw out the lawsuit.
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By Paul T. Rosynsky  OAKLAND -- A lawsuit challenging City Attorney John Russo's decision to invalidate a petition drive against the 3,100-unit Oak to Ninth housing development will proceed through the court system, an Alameda County Superior Court Judge decided late Thursday.
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Eight immigrants who have waited years for their citizenship applications to clear tougher post-9/11 background checks claim in a lawsuit filed Thursday that the delays violate their constitutional rights of due process.
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The U.S. government asked a judge Friday to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the 8-year-old federal law that bans gay marriage.
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The District of Columbia on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that struck down the city's 30-year-old ban on private handgun ownership.
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By Terrie Morgan-Besecker, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Sep. 12--WILKES-BARRE -- A federal magistrate has recommended that Denise Carey be permitted to continue with a lawsuit that said the city retaliated against her for speaking out against the closure of a fire station near her home.
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A federal judge threw out a lawsuit Wednesday by foreign-born terror suspects challenging their detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ruling that last year's landmark Supreme Court ruling did not provide them the legal basis to win their freedom.
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Israeli settlers opposed to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Gaza withdrawal plan have filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court, saying the government&#39;s offer of cash advances to settlers willing to leave their homes is illegal.
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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut  - As many U.S. cities and states arrest illegal immigrants in raids and toughen laws against them, a Connecticut city is offering to validate them under a controversial, first-in-the-nation ID card program.
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Lawyers for Osama bin Laden's former driver asked a U.S. military tribunal to dismiss charges against him Thursday, arguing that his alleged offenses weren't established to be war crimes at the time they were committed.
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales defended President Bush&#039;s immigration proposal Friday, rejecting claims that giving some illegal immigrants a shot at citizenship amounts to amnesty.
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A federal judge has dismissed a challenge to a law that requires millions of Medicaid beneficiaries to prove their citizenship before obtaining health benefits.
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The ACLU claims the U.S. government's defense of COPA is too inconsistent to uphold the law.
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Attorneys for undocumented immigrants who have suffered violent crimes sued the federal government Wednesday for failing to issue protective visas approved by Congress more than six years ago.
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A federal appeals court Friday ordered the dismissal of an ACLU lawsuit challenging President Bush's domestic surveillance program.