Word: suede
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The U.S. Supreme Court refused to reconsider a ruling that lets police use deadly force against people who try to escape from custody while awaiting a criminal trial, effectively saying it is constitutional to shoot at even unarmed fugitives. Without comment, the justices turned away an appeal in a Houston...
If you flame someone online can the online service be held responsible? That's the issue being decided in New York's State Supreme Court. A Long Island financial firm, Stratton Oakmont, sued Prodigy -- one of theonline world's Big Three-- claiming that it was unfairly accused of fraud on...
Even fringe candidates for office must be invited to participate in political debates on public TV or be told -- in "viewpoint-neutral" terms why not -- the Supreme Court said today in letting stand a lower court decision. The rationale for denying an invitation would have to satisfy an extremely high...
The Las Vegas Hilton was ordered today to pay former Navy pilot Paula Coughlin $1.7 million for failing to provide adequate security at the1991 Tailhook convention, where Coughlin says she was sexually assaulted by drunken aviators. A U.S. District Court jury in Las Vegas ruled after two days of deliberations...
Instead, Halper hired an attorney and sued RCA Records and its parent company, Bertelsmann Music Group, for $50 million. (A spokesperson for Bertelsmann would not comment on the case.) Halper also filed a claim against her employer under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act -- one of the first such claims...