Judge rejects campaign-finance rules
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A federal judge has struck down rules governing campaign fund-raising, concluding that the regulations undermine a 2-year-old campaign finance reform law and allow political activists and candidates to dodge it.
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A federal judge rejected a request by prosecutors to send former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry to jail for violating his probation in a criminal tax case.
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A federal judge may have sent a gift to all merger-minded U.S. executives when he rejected the government's request to block Oracle Corp.'s  bid for PeopleSoft Inc.  last week.
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A Democratic county clerk sent absentee ballot applications to all registered voters over 60 in her jurisdiction Thursday, after a judge rejected Republicans' arguments that the unrequested mailings were illegal.
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A federal judge on Thursday rejected the government's attempt to block Oracle Corp.'s &#36;7.7 billion takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc., concluding a combination between the business software makers wouldn't throttle competition in a narrow market niche.
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The federal judge who presided over the trial of former Gov. Don Siegelman and ex-HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy refused on Monday to throw out their convictions on government corruption charges.
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The Delaware judge overseeing the legal wrangling there between PeopleSoftÂ and hostile suitor OracleÂ rejected on Wednesday a settlement that PeopleSoft had arranged with a group of dissident shareholders.
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A U.S. magistrate on Friday rejected arguments by the Bush administration and urged a federal judge to order the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails
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A U.S. federal judge halted planned elections in Port Chester, New York, on Friday, after the government said its political system effectively denies Hispanics representation in the local government.
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CNET is reporting that US District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco has denied a request by the Antitrust Division of the federal Department of Justice to issue an injunction against Oracle&#39;s hostile acquisition of business software maker PeopleSoft
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A judge rejected a challenge to a transfer of property by the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego, saying the plaintiffs lacked standing to claim that the diocese was trying to protect its assets from alleged sex-abuse victims.
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US District Judge Roy Cohn in Florida rejected a suit Monday seeking to create a paper trail for touch-screen voting machines. The suit was filed by US Rep. Robert Wexler.
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A judge declined to rule Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by Republican voters challenging a decision that allows Iowans to cast provisional ballots outside of their home precincts. He said the challenge was premature.
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By REBECCA BOONE  BOISE, Idaho - A judge on Friday blocked new rules governing how ranchers use 160 million acres of federal land, saying a federal agency had given in to pressure from the livestock industry.
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A federal judge refused Monday to allow a large rally on Central Park&#39;s Great Lawn during the Republican National Convention, but urged protesters and the city to work toward a compromise.
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An Anne Arundel County judge Wednesday  rejected a challenge to the state's touch-screen voting machines, saying they are more accurate than the paper ballots plaintiffs are seeking to make optional for the November elections. -The Washington Post
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- A federal judge found Monday that new rules from the Federal Election Commission did not follow the intent of lawmakers who wrote a sweeping new law designed to change the way politicians raise money, creating uncertainty for