Damages reduced in funeral protest case
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A federal judge has reduced by more than half the amount of damages that a fundamentalist Kansas church must pay to the father of a Marine who was killed in Iraq.
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A Georgia county is suing to recover $2  million in cleanup costs and other expenses from the owners of  a crematory where 334 corpses were found dumped in the woods,  buried in pits and stacked in storage sheds.
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Victims of a toxic waste spill in Ivory Coast are to be compensated but most of the money stays in state hands.
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A French appeals court ruled Friday that a 78-year-old Frenchman who attacked Marcel Duchamp's famed porcelain urinal with a hammer last year does not have to pay $260,000 in damages.
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Almost 1,700 relatives of people whose bodies were found scattered over a crematory&#39;s property are suing the owner for all he&#39;s worth -- but that may not be much.
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The funeral of a man who died after an argument over litter is to take place.
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Funeral workers in Scotland are set to walk out in a dispute over pay and conditions.
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A Roman Catholic church buried the ashes of hundreds of aborted fetuses Sunday, a day after the 32nd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal, drawing criticism that the church was exploiting women's grief to make a political statement.
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LOS ANGELES Punitive damages of 100 (m) million dollars awarded to the family of a man who sued tobacco giant Philip Morris have been slashed in half by a state appeals court in Los Angeles.
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LONDON  - A judge at the London High Court struck out the bulk of a record libel damages claim of 240 million pounds (345 million euros, 434 million dollars) against the Financial Times by stockbroker Collins Stewart Tullet.
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A bid to amend plans to make inciting racial hatred a crime is defeated by the government.
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island  - A fireworks maker and several other defendants sued by relatives of 100 people killed in a 2003 U.S. nightclub fire have agreed to pay $13.5 million to settle claims, a lawyer in the case said on Wednesday.
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A free funeral is not everyone&#39;s idea of  a perk but some politicians in northern Italy&#39;s Veneto region  defended Wednesday the right to expense their final send-off  amid a public outcry about freeloading politicians.
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George Best's sister and her husband win damages over a story about the support they gave the ill soccer legend.
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The PSNI appeals after being told to pay Â£45,000 to a photographer who suffered discrimination for marrying a Catholic.
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By Allison Retka  A St. Louis-based charity that sold raffle tickets for elaborate prizes in St. Charles and Kansas City has been ordered to pay more than $3.6 million in restitution and penalites.   St. Louis County Circuit Judge Steven H.
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In a decision that&#39;s more of a somber, symbolic victory than a cash windfall, accused south suburban fundraisers for the militant Palestinian group Hamas were ordered Wednesday to pay $156 million