State Farm Settlles Another Lawsuit (WKRG News 5 Mobile)

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - State Farm Fire and Casualty Company has settled another lawsuit with a policyholder whose home was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.

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State settles lawsuit with female raped in foster care (Naples Daily News) The Florida Department of Children and Families has settled a lawsuit with the guardians of a mentally disabled girl who repeatedly was molested by her foster father in Immokalee and ended up pregnant. [News Source]

Hotel Tax Lawsuit Dismissed (Central Florida News 13) A judge has thrown out a lawsuit from Orange County aimed at forcing online travel companies to pay higher hotel taxes.   [News Source]

Education Lawsuit Moving Forward (KELO Sioux Falls) South Dakota Education Adequacy Lawsuit is Moving Forward [News Source]

State settles lawsuit with female raped in foster care (Bonita Daily News) The Florida Department of Children and Families has settled a lawsuit with the guardians of a mentally disabled girl who repeatedly was molested by her foster father in Immokalee and ended up pregnant. [News Source]

Judge Halts Valerie Plame’s Lawsuit (NBC 11 Bay Area) WASHINGTON -- A federal judge dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame's lawsuit against members of the Bush administration Thursday, eliminating one of the last courtroom remnants of the leak scandal. [News Source]

Navickas no longer a plaintiff in lawsuit against MAA (Ashland Daily Tidings) Ashland City Councilor Eric Navickas is no longer a plaintiff in the initial lawsuit, filed by he and three environmental groups in January of 2005, against the Mt. Ashland expansion project. [News Source]

Lawsuit filed against uniform company after Tulsa plant death (WTNH-TV New Haven) (Tulsa, Okla.-AP, July 21, 2007 3:45 PM) _ Family members of an Oklahoma man killed after he was trapped in an industrial dryer have filed a civil lawsuit against the nation's largest uniform supplier, and the Connecticut-based manufacturer of the dryer. [News Source]

Justice Department Inspectors Tour Rader Center For Lawsuit (KOTV 6 Tulsa) OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- U.S. Department of Justice inspectors have been touring the L.E. Rader Center in Sand Springs to gather evidence in a federal lawsuit against the state of Oklahoma and its handling of juvenile detainees there. [News Source]

FOG president steps down over lawsuit issue (The Farmington Daily Times) ALBUQUERQUE — The president of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government announced he will step down Aug. 1 to avoid "any appearance of conflict of interest" in the government watchdog group's joint lawsuit with The Daily Times. [News Source]