Slave descendants try to revive lawsuit
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Lawyers for slave descendants asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to revive a landmark reparations case that demands 17 of the nation's insurers and banks publicize and pay for their roles in the country's slave trade.
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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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Lawyers for the civil rights activist are pressing a lawsuit over the title of an OutKast song that bears her name.
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Two brothers from Aruba who were once suspects in the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway want a judge to dismiss the wrongful death lawsuit brought against them by her parents.
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A legal battle brews over whether fishermen are trespassing when they fish in the flooded bottomlands.
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Five of James Brown's children are challenging their late father's will, according to court documents.
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Black Cherokee Indians said on Tuesday they will challenge a weekend vote to kick them out of the tribe that once owned their ancestors as slaves.
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Families of victims and offenders weigh in on pending Supreme Court case.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 25 -- The Rev. Al Sharpton, the prominent civil rights activist, is descended from a slave owned by relatives of the late senator and one-time segregationist Strom Thurmond, a genealogical study released Sunday  reported.
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The Mississippi Supreme Court has reopened litigation over who owns photographs and writings of bluesman Robert Johnson, nearly two months after declaring his son sole heir to royalties from the memorabilia.
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Members of the Cherokee Nation of native Americans vote to revoke tribal rights of slave descendants.
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Since before vice presidential candidate John Edwards brought attention to the South's vanished textile mills, ex-mill workers and historians have been working to save the mills' legacy.
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The parents of Charlotte Wyatt are returning to court to fight for their daughter's right to be resuscitated.
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Black leaders filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against several white officials in Waller County, alleging "an extensive illegal reign of terror against African-American" officials.
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Nearly 1,700 relatives of people whose bodies were found scattered across a crematory's property are suing the owner for all he's worth &#151; but that may not be much.
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The Mississippi Supreme Court has reopened litigation over who owns photographs and writings of bluesman Robert Johnson, nearly 14 months after declaring his son sole heir to royalties from the memorabilia.
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A federal appeals court denied requests Wednesday to reinstate a lawsuit filed by hundreds of people affected by a race riot in Tulsa, Okla., in 1921.