Loser in Pants Lawsuit Keeps Fighting (New York Times) WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (AP) A judge who lost a $54 million lawsuit against a dry cleaner is fighting the cleaners? efforts to collect legal fees from him. [News Source]

Microsoft facing ‘Vista Capable’ lawsuit (ITP.net) Microsoft is facing a class action lawsuit, which claims that it mislead PC buyers with its ‘Windows Vista Capable' campaign. [News Source]

Lawsuit: AIDS detainee denied medical care (EARTHtimes.org) A transgender AIDS patient died shackled to a bed and ignored by workers in a California detention center for illegal immigrants, a lawsuit charges. Victor Arrelano's death last month underscores the medical neglect facing nearly 30,000 undocumented immig... [News Source]

Lawsuit: AIDS detainee denied medical care (Moldova.org) A transgender AIDS patient died shackled to a bed and ignored by workers in a California detention center for illegal immigrants, a lawsuit charges.Victor Arrelano's death last month underscores the medical neglect facing nearly 30,000 undocumented immigrants in custody nationwide, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.Arrelano, 23, a Mexican national who used the name Victoria, had been in ... [News Source]

Lawsuit: AIDS detainee denied medical care (UPI) A transgender AIDS patient died shackled to a bed and ignored by workers in a California detention center for illegal immigrants, a lawsuit charges. [News Source]

Area county faces lawsuit: Lafayette alleged to have taken citizens’ money (Texarkana Gazette) Lawyers representing Lafayette County argued Friday in federal court that a lawsuit alleging the county wrongfully kept money belonging to private citizens should be dismissed. [News Source]

Ex-dean drops lawsuit against MiraCosta (San Diego Union-Tribune) NORTH COUNTY, Aug. 11 (UNION-TRIBUNE): One of the administrators who left campus involuntarily in the midst of a scandal over the illegal sale of palm trees at MiraCosta College has dropped her lawsuit against the institution. [News Source]

Judge blocks RCMP attempt to delay lawsuit (Canada.com) OTTAWA -- A judge has blocked an RCMP attempt to derail a lawsuit by an Ottawa man who says an RCMP file erroneously linked him to a sexual assault he witnessed 15 years ago. [News Source]

Lawsuit by Hawaiians poses serious threat to OHA (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) SIX months after staving off a lawsuit by non-Hawaiians, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs faces a serious challenge by those with 50 percent or more Hawaiian blood. Federal legislation separate from Sen. Daniel Akaka's sovereignty bill might be needed to keep Hawaiian programs intact. [News Source]

Lawsuit: Arabic T-shirt grounded profiled passenger (Daily Journal)

NEW YORK — A discrimination lawsuit charges federal officials and jetBlue Airways with racial profiling for refusing to let a passenger board an August 2006 flight at Kennedy International Airport because he wore a T-shirt inscribed with an Arabic phrase.

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