Water Lawsuit (WIBW-TV Topeka) Attorney General Phill Kline says Colorado will pay Kansas $1.1 million dollars in a lawsuit over Arkansas River water. Colorado has already paid Kansas $35 million. The lawsuit was filed to make sure Colorado doesn't take too much water from the river. [News Source]

Sonar Exercise Set Despite Whale Lawsuit (ABC News) Defense Department Allows Navy Sonar Exercises Despite Whale Lawsuit [News Source]

Sonar exercise set despite whale lawsuit (AP via Yahoo! News) The Defense Department granted the Navy a national security exemption Friday to use sonar during maritime exercises off both coasts for the next six months, letting the service sidestep a lawsuit that sought to protect whales near Hawaii from the noise. [News Source]

Sonar Exercise Set Despite Whale Lawsuit (ABC News) Defense Department Allows Navy Sonar Exercises Despite Whale Lawsuit [News Source]

Sonar Exercise Set Despite Whale Lawsuit (ABC News) Defense Department Allows Navy Sonar Exercises Despite Whale Lawsuit [News Source]

Sonar exercise set despite whale lawsuit (AP via Yahoo! News) The Defense Department granted the Navy a national security exemption Friday for the use of sonar during a maritime exercise, sidestepping a lawsuit that sought to protect whales from the noise. [News Source]

Target stores in Austin subject of lawsuit (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) Twelve janitors filed a federal lawsuit in San Antonio June 29 against Target Corp. and the janitorial company they worked for, alleging they required them to work overtime on the night shift without time-and-a-half at several Austin and San Antonio Target stores. [News Source]

Lawsuit against voter ID law dropped (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Former Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes has dropped his lawsuit challenging Georgia's voter ID law, but the legal challenge could be refiled with a new plaintiff. The case's elderly plaintiff, Margaret Berry, voted by absentee ballot, which is not subject to the state's new photo ID requirement, said Jennifer Jordan, one of the lawyers working on the case. "We didn't want to get tripped up on a [News Source]

Lawsuit Over Viacom Exec Pay Can Proceed (AP via Yahoo! Finance) A New York judge has ruled that shareholders of Viacom Inc. may go ahead with a lawsuit claiming the communications giant's top three executives were overpaid in 2004 while the company lost almost $17.5 billion. [News Source]

Pentagon move sidesteps sonar lawsuit (MSNBC) WASHINGTON - The Defense Department granted the Navy a national security exemption Friday for the use of sonar during a maritime exercise, sidestepping a lawsuit that sought to protect whales from the noise. [News Source]