Hippie group founder urges suit vs. feds
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A founding member of a hippie movement called the Rainbow Family suggested Saturday that it launch a federal lawsuit against a growing crackdown on their annual gatherings.
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A group of advocates for medical marijuana sued two federal health agencies over the assertion that smoking it has no medical benefit.
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A U.S. Muslim group on Thursday  accused evangelist Jerry Falwell of using money donated for  tsunami relief to convert people in South Asia to Christianity  and called on the Bush administration to denounce his actions.
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Ailing ground zero workers are going to court to demand that the company overseeing a $1 billion Sept. 11 insurance fund uses it to pay for their health care.
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An animal-rights group has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the U.S. Department of Agriculture of improperly withholding information gathered during its investigation into the near-fatal tiger attack on illusionist Roy Horn.
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Medical marijuana advocates filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding California Highway Patrol officers stop confiscating pot from authorized users.
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The American Civil Liberties Union  filed suit on Thursday on behalf of five Iraq war protesters  arrested during a campaign stop by President Bush when they  simulated the infamous human pyramid at Abu Ghraib prison,  wearing only thongs.
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The founder of Blackwater defends himselfâand his company.
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The main pension fund of New York State filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against Merck &amp; Company, accusing it of misleading shareholders about the safety of its arthritis pain drug Vioxx, which has since been withdrawn.
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An organization that monitors religious groups has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family broke the law by trying to sway presidential election voters.
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A Muslim charity accused of ties to terrorists has asked a federal judge to dismiss many of the charges the U.S. government filed against it after the 2001 terror attacks.
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LOS ANGELES - A disparate group made up of dozens of state attorneys general, labor unions, retailers, professional sports leagues and others urged the US Supreme Court on Monday to hear a claim brought by the recording and film industries against two
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com. Victor Conte, the founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) who faces federal charges of illegally distributing performance-enhancing drugs, attempts to shed light
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Environmental groups Sierra Club and Environmental Defense on Tuesday asked the U.S.
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Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson and other conservative Christian leaders are calling for the National Association of Evangelicals to silence or fire an official who has urged evangelicals to take global warming seriously.
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For someone whose company is facing a federal criminal investigation, hundreds of lawsuits that could cost billions, and outrage in the medical world, Ray Gilmartin is putting on a brave face.
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Comptroller William Donald Schaefer wants to seek charges against a state delegate who called for his resignation because of comments the comptroller made about people with AIDS.