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Complaint: Colleges violate blind student's rights by adopting hard-to-use
AP | 3 minutes ago in US A complaint filed Tuesday with the federal government accuses New York University and Northwestern University of discriminating against blind students by adopting Google e-mail and other programs that aren't fully compatible
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:10P
NBA ref's suit says reporter's tweet during Wolves game defamed him
Referee William Spooner's lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Minneapolis, seeks at least $75000 in damages and removal of the Jan. 24 tweet. Reporter Jon Krawczynski's tweet harmed Spooner's "integrity and honesty, which are essential to the
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:10P
Complaint: Google programs hard for blind students
A complaint filed Tuesday with the federal government accuses New York University and Northwestern University of discriminating against blind students by adopting Google e-mail and other programs that aren't fully compatible with technology that
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:10P
Ralli > Insurers must do more to tackle fraudulent injury claims and make
Fraud is one of the main factors driving up the cost of motor insurance, says the cross party transport committee at the House of Commons. Wider access to justice should not provide a licence to make false personal injury claims under car insurance
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:10P
Rowan sentenced to 14 months
She was ordered to pay $36098.15 in restitution after stealing gift cards and money from Hecker's bankruptcy estate. She will be under supervised release for five years after she gets out of jail. Rowan initially faced just six months in jail after
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:10P
Charter's CTO Resigns
He performed a similar duty as CTO at Adelphia Communications, keeping the company's technology wheels on the road as it went through a bankruptcy process that ended up with a sale of its systems to Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) and Time Warner
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:09P
The Ultimate Tragedy, We Have To Borrow, At Interest, From Our Private Central
Eric Fry, The Rude Awakening In short, if not all government funding, all disaster-related funding should certainly be non-interest-bearing and Treasury direct as government and private insurance programs may easily blow thru their reserves and require
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:06P
TV Producer Claims Tax Credit Denial Was A Violation of U.S. Constitution
After being denied a few hundred thousand dollars by Michigan's tax and film offices, Frank has delivered a sublimely angry 42-page lawsuit that basically rips Michigan officials for being hypocrites with poor taste. Michigan has offered one of the
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:05P
Chamber Hires Ex-AG To Lobby On FCPA
The registration, on behalf of the Chamber's Institute for Legal Reform, covers possible FCPA amendments and other issues “related to criminal law and policies affecting US corporations,” according to the BLT. The Institute for Legal Reform released a
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:05P
Stocks, Commodities Fall on Japan Disaster; S&P 500 Pares Drop
Aflac Inc. and Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. led declines in 21 of 22 companies in the S&P 500 Insurance Index on concern that operations and investments in Japan will be hobbled. Aflac, which gets three-quarters of its revenue in Japan,
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:04P