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Silicosis suit could crush South Africa’s gold mining sector
Thousands of ex-gold miners suffering from silicosis have launched a class action suit in South Africa, in what could prove the final nail in the coffin of the country’s battered but vital mining...
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Is U.S. suit against rating agency S&P actually retaliation?
Given that S&P issued a historic downgrade of U.S. creditworthiness in August 2011 and has threatened to take that rating down a further notch, the pending suit is raising questions of whether it...
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Real News: Man in zebra suit ‘tranquilised’ in zoo drill (video)
Staff at a Japanese zoo practise procedures designed to recapture escaped animals in the event of an earthquake. WT news feed
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Supreme Court tosses suit against terror surveillance program
The U.S. Supreme Court today essentially put the government’s expanded terror surveillance program beyond legal challenge, tossing out a lawsuit filed by a group of lawyers, journalists, and civil...
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Toyota pays $16 mln to settle suit in southern California
We know that the allegations were bogus, but still Toyota has agreed to a million deal with a southern Californian county over charges the Japanese auto giant hid safety issues linked to unintended...
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Fisker faces suit alleging failure to give advance notice of dismissals.
Fisker Automotive, hours after dismissing about 75 percent of its employees, was hit with a federal lawsuit accusing the company of breaking the law that requires employers to give workers advance...
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IRS to be hit by new law suit claiming tea party groups got intimidating...
The Internal Revenue Service will face a new lawsuit Wednesday over its admitted pattern of targeting tea party groups and other conservative nonprofits for especially invasive questioning when they...
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Organic growers lose decision in suit versus Monsanto over seeds.
Monsanto Co. on Monday won another round in a legal battle with U.S. organic growers as an appeals court threw out the growers’ efforts to stop the company from suing farmers if traces of its patented...
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Parents of Navy SEAL Killed in Afghan Crash File the First Suit on NSA Spying.
A couple in Philadelphia has filed a class-action lawsuit against the National Security Agency and Verizon, claiming they and their phone records were targeted for surveillance because of their...
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FOIA suit reveals Guantánamo’s ‘indefinite detainees’
The Obama administration Monday lifted a veil of secrecy surrounding the status of the detainees at Guantánamo, for the first time publicly naming the four dozen captives it defined as indefinite...
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Suit over scientist’s mysterious death dismissed
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the sons of a Cold War scientist who plunged to his death in 1953, just days after unwittingly taking LSD in a CIA mind-control experiment. bertb news...
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Wanted: special-ops battle suit with cooling, embedded computers, radios, and...
U.S. military researchers are asking industry for ideas on a futuristic uniform for Special Operations warfighters that involves agile air-conditioned armor with embedded computers, sensors,...
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Chiquita bananas hired killer commandos: suit
2007 Chiquita pleaded guilty to U.S. criminal charges that it had supported terrorists. It paid a $ 25 million fine. BlackListedNews.com
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