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Feds seek plan to protect frogs from pesticides
The federal government must hop to it in figuring out how to protect red-legged frogs - California's largest native frog - from more than 60 pesticides, an environmental group says in a new lawsuit. The Environmental Protection Agency
Updated: 10/25/2011 03:13A
Foes take aim at mayor, council
The issues ranged from the recent vote to ban grocery stores from giving away plastic bags to customers at checkout, to the city's decision to appeal a lawsuit ruling that favored a political activist's request to view ballots that were cast in past
Updated: 10/25/2011 03:10A
California's budget battles are now playing out in court
State leaders already backed off a plan to take $1 billion from First 5 childhood development programs after facing a lawsuit in May. The 2009-10 budget may have set a record for litigation, as the Department of Finance counted 42 lawsuits against the
Updated: 10/25/2011 03:07A
Florida welfare drug-testing law blocked
Judge Mary Scriven ruled in response to a lawsuit filed on behalf of a 35-year-old Navy veteran and single father who sought the benefits while finishing his college degree, but refused to take the test. The judge said there was a good chance plaintiff
Updated: 10/25/2011 03:04A
In brief: Fiery crash on I-90 kills driver
The Spokane branch of the Sierra Club and the Center for Environmental Law and Policy have filed the lawsuit in federal court. PCBs are industrial compounds associated with liver disease and cancer. They get into the river through stormwater runoff,
Updated: 10/25/2011 03:04A
Suit filed over PCBs in Spokane River
they say is its failure to force the Washington Department of Ecology to create a plan to clean-up PCBs in the Spokane River. The Spokane branch of the Sierra Club and the Center for Environmental Law and Policy have filed the lawsuit in federal court.
Updated: 10/25/2011 03:03A
Man who claims police assaulted him sues Aurora, 3 cops
AURORA — A man who says police attacked him for no reason last year as he suffered a seizure filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Aurora and three police officers. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Rickey Burrell, 54,
Updated: 10/25/2011 03:01A
Evanston, Orthodox Jewish school locked in zoning battle
The lot on 222 Hartrey Ave. stays unoccupied while Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov Elementary, an Orthodox Jewish school, and the city engage in an ongoing lawsuit for JDBY's rights to build on the property. In January 2007, the school bought the six-acre
Updated: 10/25/2011 02:58A
6 El Paso school districts join lawsuit challenging school finance
Fed up with the Legislature's "unwillingness" to address equity concerns in the state's system of financing schools, six El Paso school districts have joined a lawsuit filed by the Texas Taxpayer and Student Fairness Coalition. The coalition is working
Updated: 10/25/2011 02:55A
No immunity for DSK: maid
AP Attorneys for the hotel maid who says she was sexually assaulted by former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn say he doesn't have immunity from a civil lawsuit filed against him. According to papers filed yesterday,
Updated: 10/25/2011 02:54A