Word: lawsuits
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...million, the total amount its Optimal funds subsidiary had withdrawn in the 90 days leading up to the December 11, 2008, collapse of Madoff's decades-long crime. Santander, the most exposed of the European banks involved with Madoff, with $3 billion lost, is still facing a class-action lawsuit...
...campaign to raise money to place ads on buses in the handful of Indiana cities with populations over 50,000. But that was turned down by the public transportation system in Bloomington (pop. 72,254). The local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has since filed a lawsuit on First Amendment grounds. Indianapolis' public transportation system also declined. Michael Terry, its chief executive, pointed to a policy barring ads "involving or referring to political, religious, moral or environmental issues subject to public debate." Terry says, "It costs us a lot of revenue, to be that restrictive...
PEREZ HILTON wins lawsuit against gossip site for stealing his idea of stealing ideas from others...
...state's department of corrections needed more space, but the burgeoning deal fell through after a new governor took office in 2005. Then Hardin tried to lure business from other states, only to be told that Montana law prohibited incarceration of prisoners convicted out of state. Despite winning a lawsuit last June that would allow it to accept prisoners from anywhere, Two Rivers remains empty; its $27 million in bonds went into default a year...
...brief ceremony was conducted by Judge Robert Hanson, whose 2007 ruling that the state's same-sex marriage ban treated gay and lesbian couples unequally under the law, landed the case in front of the Iowa Supreme Court. (Hanson's decision was in response to a lawsuit by six gay and lesbian couples denied marriages.) The teenagers each carried a calla lily. The couple shed a few tears and shared a laugh when the judge asked if they wanted to be referred to as "spouses" or "partners." (They went with "spouses.") An impromptu celebratory lunch followed at a brew...