Judge: make bills recognizable to blind
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U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman said the government has violated the law, and he ordered it to come up with ways for the blind to tell bills apart.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The law that state lawmakers passed last fall to keep a severely brain-damaged hooked up to a feeding tube despite her husband's orders to remove it is unconstitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday...
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A state judge is expected to hear arguments Wednesday on whether to immediately block the auctioning of Barry Bonds&#39; 700th homerun ball.
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Rasmussen Reports - A Georgia state judge ruled that a new state law requiring voters to show photo ID is a violation of the state constitution (see story).
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The federal judge handling lawsuits against the nation's telecoms rules the companies have to answer spying allegations. But the real point is to force the feds to show their cards. In 27B Stroke 6.
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A 2002 congressional law adds protection for corporate tattletales, but few of them gain such status from US courts. By Adam Geller / Associated Press.
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Joseph Glazier has seen the cost of his phone service double this year and his utility bills could do the same. He cannot ride the bus for free anymore. Subsidized prescriptions for his ailing eyes and ears have long since stopped.
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Michael Jackson may consider a California district attorney an old enemy, but the court doesn&#39;t. The judge in Jackson&#39;s child-molestation case rejected arguments Thursday that Santa Barbara County DA Tom Sneddon was &quot;blinded by zeal.
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Judge Dick Ambrose wants his name to stand out on the November ballot like an orange Cleveland Browns helmet in a sea of Steelers black and gold.
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A court rules a web-based bankruptcy "expert" is not a clerical tool but is effectively practicing law without a license. Plus: Internet doomed, close browser now. In 27B Stroke 6.
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A federal judge said yesterday that by keeping all U.S. currency the same size and texture, the government has denied blind people meaningful access to money.
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More than 20 years ago, federal Judge Bruce Van Sickle issued a landmark decision that led to the release of hundreds of mentally retarded people from two North Dakota institutions. Now, 87 years old and stricken with Alzheimer's, the retired judge is himself at the center of a legal fight to remove him from an institution.
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Our position is: Congress needs to add a federal judgeship in Indiana to make the workload more manageable. Marion County courts aren&#39;t the only ones facing budget constraints.
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WASHINGTON -- A new $50 bill with touches of red, blue and yellow will show up soon in banks, cash registers and wallets. A new $10 also is in the works, the third greenback to get colorized in an effort to thwart counterfeiting.
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By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Feb. 9--Geerat Vermeij pulls one shell, then another, from a nest of plastic boxes, rarely pausing to check the Braille labels curled beside them. His long fingers dart into each shell's opening.
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A judge is offering traffic violators a choice: pay a fine or make a &#36;100 donation to a tsunami relief charity.
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BANGOR, Maine -- A federal judge has ruled that a new Maine law making doctors' prescription-writing habits confidential violates the Constitution.