School-Finance Lawsuit (WIBW-TV Topeka) Gubernatorial candidate Jim Barnett is a leading critic of the Kansas Supreme Court's ruling on the school-finance lawsuit. But as an Emporia school board member in 1998, Barnett voted to support a lawsuit challenging the state's funding of elementary and secondary education. [News Source]

Kline: Colorado pays $1.1 million to cover water lawsuit expenses (Lawrence Journal-World) Topeka — Having already paid $35 million to Kansas because of a lawsuit over the Arkansas River, Colorado covered an additional $1.1 million in expenses incurred to make sure it doesn’t take too much water, Atty. Gen. Phill Kline said Friday. [News Source]

Lawsuit a concern for Harrison Hills board (Times-Reporter) HOPEDALE – Attorneys for the Harrison Hills City School District have less than a month to respond to a civil lawsuit filed against the district, Superintendent Jim Drexler told the Board of Education Thursday. [News Source]

Five press lawsuit over transfer flap (The Des Moines Register) Five wrestlers who want to transfer to Iowa filed a lawsuit against Virginia Tech and Hokies athletic director James Weaver on Friday. [News Source]

Royster files lawsuit (Peoria Journal Star) PEORIA - Ousted District 150 Superintendent Kay Royster, after more than a year of silence, fired back at her critics on the School Board in a lawsuit filed late Friday afternoon. [News Source]

Judge tosses lottery lawsuit (The News Journal) WILMINGTON -- A Chancery Court judge dismissed a 49-year-old Bear man's lawsuit that claimed he was entitled to a $5 million lottery prize even though he said he lost the winning ticket in a laundry mishap. [News Source]

Viacom-pay lawsuit OK’d (The Charlotte Observer) 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]

Lawsuit ‘looks like a vendetta’ (Courier-Post) On his final day before returning to retirement, city school district business administrator John Amato blasted his predecessor for a whistle-blower lawsuit against former Superintendent Annette Knox, saying it "looks like a vendetta." [News Source]

Defense Grants Navy Ability to Use Sonar Despite Lawsuit (Los Angeles Times) SAN DIEGO — To trump a lawsuit by environmentalists who say the Navy's use of sonar will harm whales, the Department of Defense on Friday invoked a national security clause that exempts the military from laws protecting marine mammals. [News Source]

Navy to continue sonar exercises off Hawaii despite whale lawsuit (Deseret Morning 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]