Litigation

Football Coach Asks Supreme Court to Hear Prayer Appeal
East Brunswick, NJ Football coach Marcus Borden has asked the US Supreme Court to hear his appeal over the right to pray with his public high school team before games. "The Supreme Court needs to hear this case because it...

ADF: U.S. Supreme Court should hear NJ coachs prayer case
ADF Chief Counsel Benjamin Bull: ?We?re in big trouble in this country if a high school football coach can?t even show respect during the prayer of his players . . . "

4th Circuit Court Of Appeals Hears Forsyth County Commission Prayer Case
Yes! Weekly: Mike Johnson, a former senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, represented Forsyth County . . . Commissioner Walter Marshall said the county did not have a policy regarding prayer until Judge Beaty issued his ruling last year...

NC: County costs in prayer lawsuit studied
County commissioners debated yesterday costs that the county is incurring to defend its public-prayer policies in federal court, and signs mounted that the county might re-examine its role in the case ...

Judge to hear arguments in prayer lawsuit
Wesley Young reports in the Winston-Salem Journal: "Both sides presented their last written arguments in the case in mid-May. The county is being defended by the Alliance Defense Fund, which has fought similar ACLU suits elsewhere ...

Cert. Petition Filed In County Commission Prayer Case
A petition for certiorari (full text) was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday seeking review in Forsyth County, North Carolina v. Joyner, (filed 11/27/2011). In the case, the 4th Circuit in a 2-1 decision held that the prayer policy of a county commission violated the Establishment Clause even though the policy was neutral on its face...

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California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
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Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
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Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
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Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
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Heart of Atlanta v United States
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Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Contract Extortion
County Executive Robert Janiszewski ordered to pay Hudson County a $650,000 racketeering settlement.

Ebay Fined
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Tomato Salmonella
Sheetz Convenience Stores agrees to confidential out-of-court settlement with food poisoning victim.

National Association of Realtors
Settlement reached in broker listing antitrust lawsuit, pending court approval.

Missouri Attorney General's Office
$26,000 settlement reached in disability discrimination lawsuit, pending court approval.