Feds Sue Over Halfway House Ban
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The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against a Florida community challenging an ordinance banning halfway houses from residential areas.  The suit claims that Boca Raton has violated the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against recovering addicts, the Palm Beach Post reports.
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A civil liberties group Thursday filed two federal lawsuits alleging that hundreds of people were illegally arrested during the Republican National Convention.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked a federal court to make two Florida companies stop telephone pretexting and to pay back victims of the practice.
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NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday it is suing Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing Co., claiming it provided secret CIA transportation services to shuttle three terrorism suspects overseas, where they were tortured.
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Textile importers and retailers have sued the US Government to block a proposed limit on imports from China. Producers have asked for textile quotas because they say Chinese imports will damage the domestic industry.
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The operators of a group home destroyed in a fatal fire were recently threatened with the loss of their state license to serve the mentally ill at two affiliated homes, The Associated Press has learned.
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Five children and two disabled women were locked in a basement cell, fed meager food and rarely allowed to bathe, by a couple facing criminal charges over their care, authorities said. The couple were paid $9,000 a month to care for the seven.
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A lawsuit filed in Florida state court Tuesday alleges that electronic voting machines in a portion of Florida's 13th Congressional District were improperly maintained and selected, causing problems in the House race there.
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By Bill Bartleman, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Sep. 12--Another inmate -- at least the 16th this year -- has been removed from a Paducah halfway house for violating rules.   Employees of the Paducah Community Service Center at 621 S. 7th St.
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NEW YORK - US clothing sellers are suing the US government to force the government to stop imposing limits on Chinese textile imports.
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Hispanic activists and the ACLU sued Hazleton on Tuesday over one of the toughest crackdowns on illegal immigrants by a U.S. city.
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Kansas filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a pharmaceutical distributor accused of trying to gouge a pharmacy for flu vaccine at more than 1,000 percent the usual cost.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones filed a lawsuit against The Spice House, which bills itself as Reno&#39;s friendliest topless cabareton, - and owners Wesglow Resources on thursday in US District Court in Los Angeles.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A union representing health care workers who locked out at Sutter Health affiliated hospitals since Thursday, announced today that it is filing a lawsuit against Sutter Health and Modern Industrial Services, the agency Sutter used to hire
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Home foreclosures have set a record in the face of a Fed request to avoid taking homes.
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Advocacy groups sued the FBI and the Department of Justice on Tuesday for failing to turn over records they requested on surveillance in the Muslim-American community.
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The owners of a strip club and a company that operates adult bookstores have sued the state of Missouri over a new law banning sexually oriented billboards near state highways.