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Lawmakers can shape result of sales tax lawsuit
House Speaker Bobby Harrell sat in the audience of last week's hearing on a lawsuit brought against the exemptions, which result in $2.7 billion in sales tax exemptions compared with only $2.2 billion in sales tax collections.
Updated: 12/06/2011 12:07A
Spouse sued over death of Northern Neck restaurateur
A civil lawsuit alleges that the husband of a woman whose nearly frozen body was found partially covered by snow days after her disappearance nearly two years ago is at fault in the still-unresolved death. In an 11-page filing, Sarah Thrift, 25,
Updated: 12/06/2011 12:06A
Mortgage lenders can't blame Martha Coakley
GMAC Mortgage, a subsidiary of Ally Financial Inc., responded to the lawsuit by announcing it would more or less get out of the mortgage business in Massachusetts. It said litigation costs were making it too expensive to maintain most of its mortgage
Updated: 12/06/2011 12:05A
Crime and police news for Tuesday, Dec. 6
A lawsuit stemming from the fatal shooting of a former deputy's ex-wife will be tried in Franklin County instead of Roanoke County. Roanoke County Circuit Judge William Broadhurst transferred the case Monday. Jennifer Agee's estate filed the
Updated: 12/06/2011 12:02A
Taxi drivers cry foul over airport's permit rules
A group of Portland taxi drivers filed a lawsuit against the city Monday claiming illegal changes made to the way permits are issued will force some of the drivers out of work. The plaintiffs in the case are 11 Somali immigrants who are
Updated: 12/06/2011 12:01A
Challengers want quick decision on redistricting
A lawsuit filed Nov. 3 by dozens of voters and Democratic legislators and another filed the next day by civil rights and election-watchdog groups argue the maps approved in July are illegal. Both suits contend the new district lines illegally cluster
Updated: 12/06/2011 12:00A
Ranchers suing Assessor; challenge new land values
It's the largest number of acres involved in any property tax lawsuit he's ever seen, said the ranchers' attorney Paul Mooney of Mesa. The list of about three dozen plaintiffs reads like a who's who of Yavapai County ranching families, including Fain,
Updated: 12/05/2011 11:59P
Morgan Stanley Denies Wrongdoing in Singapore Investors' Lawsuit
For each dollar the investors lost, the bank gained a dollar, the group, including the Singapore Government Staff Credit Cooperative Society Ltd. said in their lawsuit filed last year. The case is Dandong v. Pinnacle Performance Limited, 10-CV- 8086,
Updated: 12/05/2011 11:57P
Dems file suit to halt GOP Va Senate takeover
Democrats filed a lawsuit Monday in Richmond that asks a court to halt Republican plans to assert a controlling majority in the evenly divided state Senate and could clarify a murky area of the Virginia Constitution. The suit asks the Richmond Circuit
Updated: 12/05/2011 11:56P
Woman sues store, alleging harassment
— A Somerset woman says in a lawsuit that she quit her position at a building materials company because a co-worker wasn't sufficiently disciplined for touching and threatening her. Kathy L. Rizer, formerly Kathy Coughenour, is suing Lowe's Home
Updated: 12/05/2011 11:54P
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