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Victor Davis Hanson: Flexible moral outrage
An insolvent California – still struggling with its $15 billion budget shortfall – is trying to advance its own version of the bill that would contravene federal immigration law and cost millions of dollars. At about the same time, the state has
Updated: 06/02/2011 10:03A
Dan Walters: Big-spending cities facing music
They are, ironically enough, following a pattern set in Sacramento, where governors and legislators also overspent windfall revenues and then dealt with the resulting deficits with gimmicks and borrowing, rather than face the music. When former Gov.
Updated: 06/02/2011 10:03A
Gores Group Talks With Borders About Buying Over Half Of Remaining Stores
Borders, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February, would be able to continue operating as a going concern, according to the report. A Borders spokeswoman declined to comment and a representative for Gores Group did not immediately
Updated: 06/02/2011 10:03A
Drunken driver has right to sue New Jersey bar
A Toms River restaurant is now open to a lawsuit from a man convicted in a 2006 drunken driving crash. The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled Frederick Voss has the right to sue the bar he says negligently served him.
Updated: 06/02/2011 10:03A
Buyout firm Gores in talks with Borders
Borders filed for bankruptcy last month, the latest blow to an industry hard hit by competition from electronic readers and online booksellers. Private equity firm Gores Group is in talks to buy more than half of bankrupt bookseller Borders Group Inc's
Updated: 06/02/2011 10:03A
Billy Bob Thornton's daughter found guilty of manslaughter in child's death
The Orange County State Attorney's Office says the verdict against 32-year-old Amanda Brumfield was returned Friday. She faced murder charges in the 2008 death of her best friend's 1-year-old daughter, Olivia Madison Garcia. She was found not guilty on
Updated: 06/02/2011 10:03A
NJ court: Drunken drivers may sue taverns
Two justices and an organization seeking to curb lawsuit abuse disagreed with the decision. "Today, drunk drivers can evade personal responsibility for their actions and sue restaurateurs in New Jersey for serving them drinks," said Ann Marie McDonald,
Updated: 06/02/2011 10:02A
For-Profit Colleges Get More Time to Comply With Aid Rules
Under US law, their loan obligations can rarely be discharged in bankruptcy, making them more onerous than credit-card debt or subprime mortgages taken out before the housing bubble burst. Bloomberg's John Hechinger reports.
Updated: 06/02/2011 10:01A
Portugal PM candidate Passos: manager and novice
"I have worked as manager and administrator in companies and never led one to bankruptcy," he said, attacking his rival, caretaker Socialist Prime Minister Jose Socrates, who Passos says has left Portugal broke, going cap in hand to be rescued.
Updated: 06/02/2011 10:01A
Malaysian man ordered to post 100 tweets in defamation lawsuit
In a modern twist on an age-old punishment, a Malaysian man has been ordered to publish 100 apologetic tweets to avoid being sued in a defamation lawsuit. Fahmi Fadzil, a politician's aide and well known social commentator in Malaysia,
Updated: 06/02/2011 10:00A
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