Trial Ordered in Fla. E-Ballot Lawsuit
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Just five weeks before Election Day, a federal appeals court Monday revived a lawsuit demanding that all Florida voters who use touchscreen machines receive a paper receipt, in case a recount becomes necessary...
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The presidential race may have been settled in Florida this year without the acrimony of 2000, but many of the state ballot measures approved on Election Day have ended up in court.
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A lawsuit demanding touch-screen voting machines be made to produce paper records will not be heard until Oct. 18, a judge ruled Friday, raising doubts that any significant changes to the system used by about half of Florida's voters will happen before the election.
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ChevronTexaco, ordered to pay more than $41 million to more than 75 Sunburst residents who filed a pollution-liability suit, will file a motion for a new trial in the next month, a company spokesman said.
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A judge has ordered a trial on a federal lawsuit claiming that a physical agility test the city of Erie used for police applicants unfairly discriminated against female candidates.
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A federal judge has ordered a third trial in a lawsuit by a woman who blamed Merckâs painkiller Vioxx for the heart attack that killed her husband.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  - Florida's highest court on  Friday ruled that Reform Party presidential candidate Ralph  Nader must be allowed to compete in the 2004 election in the  state, delivering a possible boost to President Bush's  re-election chances.
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Independent presidential candidate Ralph  Nader's name can appear on Florida ballots for the election,  despite a court order to the contrary, Florida's elections  chief told officials on Monday in a move that could help  President Bush in the key swing state.
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A Florida judge ordered county elections officials on Wednesday to issue absentee ballots without the name of independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader
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A federal appeals court on Monday revived a lawsuit seeking a paper trail for Florida's new touchscreen voting machines with only five weeks left before the presidential election.
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Lawyers for Donald Trump have requested a jury trial in the legal battle for a large American flag flying over his Palm Beach club, Mar-A-Lago.
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A federal judge ruled on Monday that Florida's elections division did not need to create a paper trail for the controversial touchscreen voting systems that will be used by about half the state's voters in next week's presidential election.
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A judge ordered a businessman jailed Tuesday in a case involving a corroded light pole, an injured street vendor and what the businessman calls a vindictive company.
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FORT LAUDERDALE Florida election officials are scrambling to solve a case of tens of thousands of missing absentee ballots. Broward County&#39;s Elections Supervisor has ordered duplicate ballots sent to voters who have not returned their original ballot.
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In what could be a major defeat for Ralph Nader, a judge has issued a temporary order that keeps the independent presidential candidate off the Florida ballot.
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A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Gov. Bob Taft should have ordered a special election to fill the vacancy created when James A. Traficant Jr. was kicked out of Congress for a bribery and racketeering conviction.
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A coalition of private citizens and local elected officials in New Jersey plan to file a lawsuit to block the state's use of electronic voting machines.