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In Gloucester, it's not the first time this has happened
Who's on Team Gloucester?It's probably not the most ideal position to be in come budget time. But that's the position Commonwealth's Attorney Robert D. Hicks finds himself -- three of the county supervisors who control his budget are suing him for $1.35 million......Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Crime, Law and Justice, Local Elections, Lawyers, Justice System
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Lake School Board shouldn't have waited to be sued over gay-straight club
The School Board could have walked away with dignity and a reputation for fair dealing after the threat of a lawsuit to force the district to let a student form a gay-straight club at a Leesburg school. But, no. Leave it to the board to postpone the...Tags: Government, Civil Rights, American Civil Liberties Union, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues
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Maybe Majid Khan rates a stateside prison cell
As a teenager in the mid-1990s, he moved with his parents to the United States from Pakistan. The family sought and received political asylum. They settled in Baltimore County and operated a gas station. The boy attended Owings Mills High School. His...Tags: Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency
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Scott to get fewer tax-incentive dollars, more qualifiers
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott will get a slimmed-down tax-incentive toy box with tougher standards for evaluating the economic benefit of projects. But will the Dolphins get $350 million to shape up Sun Life Stadium and lure another Super Bowl? Can...Tags: Government, Jacksonville Jaguars, Regional Authority, Rick Scott, Trials
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Contractor accused of not finishing jobs
The front of Naomi Schachter's scenic home is lined with sliding glass doors, which normally would provide an awesome view of her wooded property and access to her large deck. But for several months that view has been cluttered with yellow caution tape,...
Tags: Media Industry, Financially Distressed Companies, Crime, Law and Justice, Macungie, Lawyers
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Technicality lets tenant assign lease to friend
Q: My tenant assigned his lease to his friend without my consent, and I didn't realize it until the new "tenant" withheld rent over repairs. I lost the case, which turned on the anti-assignment clause and the difference between "cannot" and "may not."...Tags: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Justice System, Trials
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A federal judge takes on 'copyright trolls'
There are trolls who live under bridges in fantasy novels. Then there are "copyright trolls." The latter have always occupied one of the most squalid corners of the legal system. They're people or firms that acquire copyrights to movies, music or...Tags: Pornography, U.S. Congress, Recording Industry Association of America, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers
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Feds sue to stop text message gift card scam
Some of my columns spark more outrage than others and, to my surprise, a brief report several years ago about random text messages supposedly awarding $1,000 Best Buy gift cards continues to rank near the top. More than 150 people from all over the...Tags: Target, Media Industry, Allentown, Slatington, Consumers
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Seriously? Hate pastor accuses Tim Tebow of 'wimping out' on Christianity
Running off at the typewriter … The hate pastor — the Rev. Robert Jeffress of the First Baptist Church of Dallas — is at it again. After Tim Tebow canceled his appearance at the hate pastor's church last week -- presumably because of...Tags: NFL Scouting Combine, Stock Car Racing, Major League Baseball, Burger King Whopper, Media Industry
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Beer alcohol lawsuit claims product is insufficiently intoxicating
It is hard to fault anyone who says consumers should get what they pay for, as advertised. If a label says it has 5 percent of something, that's what it should have. The lawsuit against Anheuser-Busch, however, seems to be based wholly on the argument...
Tags: Mesothelioma, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Trials, Yuengling
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Enron's Jeff Skilling doesn't deserve a break
As if you didn't know this already, we're coddling criminals in America. By that I don't mean the petty drug dealers, three-strikes necklace-snatchers and other mooks filling up our state prisons; many of them are doing hard time. I'm talking about...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Securities, Crime, Law and Justice, Conservation, Economy, Business and Finance
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Pool contractor charged with fraud
It's been more than two years since a judge ordered pool contractor Ed Mara Sr. to reimburse a North Whitehall Township couple who paid for a pool that wasn't built. Lisa Ayad and Arnold Rifkin were among 19 of Mara's customers who were granted a total...Tags: Media Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Monroe County (Pennsylvania), Lawyers, Trials
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