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FDIC sues WaMu executives over bank failure-UPDATE 1
Updated: 03/17/2011 02:18P
Oregon bus driver files suit over Confederate flag
GRANTS PASS (AP) -- An Oregon school bus driver fired after he refused to remove a Confederate battle flag from his pickup filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to get back his job. The lawsuit was filed in US District Court in Medford against First
Updated: 03/17/2011 02:18P
Debt management company goes into administration
The company which was set up by John Baird who himself had been through and come out of bankruptcy offered advice to people faced with credit card debts, bankruptcy, repossession, mortgage debt and loan problems. A statement on the firm's website says
Updated: 03/17/2011 02:18P
Quicken Loans wins trial in Detroit, former employees are not entitled to overtime
The Thursday verdict means jurors were convinced sales was not the brokers' primary job when they made calls and tried to get people to agree to loans between 2002 and 2006. Quicken argued an administrative exemption for certain financial industry
Updated: 03/17/2011 02:17P
Higher taxes can't solve the deficit
The conservative element of the Republicans in the House and Senate claim that only massive spending cuts can save the country from going off a financial cliff into bankruptcy. The Democrats counter that spending really isn't the problem -- the country
Updated: 03/17/2011 02:16P
Nine States Reject Broad Anti-Immigrant Bills
At the same time, the state senate continues to consider a good example of practical and enlightened state policy on immigration: wage law enforcement. Iowa's wage law enforcement bill, S311, focuses on going after bad-apple employers who attempt to
Updated: 03/17/2011 02:16P
Faulty immigration advice voids defendant's plea
AP National/International News Entertainment News from AP AP - March 17, 2011 2:15 PM ET OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The Washington Supreme Court has unanimously voided a guilty plea by a Grant County man, saying his lawyer gave him bad advice about its
Updated: 03/17/2011 02:16P
Black money case: Hasan Ali surrenders before ED
"I respect the Supreme Court's order," said Ali while entering the premises of the ED in south Mumbai. The apex court remanded Khan in the custody of Enforcement Directorate for four days after pulling up the trial court judge who had granted him bail,
Updated: 03/17/2011 02:15P
The release of Raymond Davis (IV)
Military dictator General Ziaul Haq made qisas and diyat part of the country's criminal law and, over the years, this law was often cited as being massively misused to let off perpetrators of honour killings. Davis's release has sparked off protests by
Updated: 03/17/2011 02:15P
Legal threat after bootleg prompts change at library
The Des Plaines Public Library is changing its wi-fi policy after being threatened with a federal lawsuit because a patron used its internet to bootleg an Academy Award-winning movie.
Updated: 03/17/2011 02:15P
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