Mercury spill leads to lawsuit (UPI) The principal of a Minnesota charter school is the target of a federal lawsuit over a toxic spill on the campus, it was reported Thursday. [News Source]

Lawsuit alleges ORU funneled $1B a year (AP via Yahoo! News) More than $1 billion a year was inappropriately funneled through Oral Roberts University, a lawsuit by a former senior accountant at the scandal-plagued school alleges. [News Source]

Fed judge: Schools lawsuit against ID high court to continue (The Olympian) A lawsuit brought by school districts against the Idaho Supreme Court will move forward in the federal courts, U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled Thursday. [News Source]

Lawsuit alleges ORU funneled $1B a year (The Charlotte Observer) More than $1 billion a year was inappropriately funneled through Oral Roberts University, a lawsuit by a former senior accountant at the scandal-plagued school alleges. Trent Huddleston claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday in Tulsa County District Court that he discovered an "unrestricted" account used to funnel "unusually large" sums of money through the university each month - which would exceed ... [News Source]

Lawsuit alleges ORU funneled $1B a year (AP via Yahoo! News) More than $1 billion a year was inappropriately funneled through Oral Roberts University, a lawsuit by a former senior accountant at the scandal-plagued school alleges. [News Source]

Hearing Aid Lawsuit Resumes (The Morning News)

A 2003 lawsuit against a hearing aid manufacturer was resurrected Thursday by the Arkansas Supreme Court, which reversed and remanded the matter to Benton County Circuit Judge David Clinger.

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Polluted storm water run-off lawsuit heading to trial (Boston Globe) A lawsuit charging the Massachusetts Highway Department with violating federal clean water laws by dumping polluted storm water into neighboring rivers and streams is heading to trial. [News Source]

Ritter says lawsuit should target him, too (The Daily Sentinel) Gov. Bill Ritter is trying to become a co-defendant in a class action lawsuit filed by the Mesa County Commission and others to overturn Ritter’s controversial property tax, education-funding law. [News Source]

City wins ferry lawsuit (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle) A judge has ruled against a local industrialist who claimed in a lawsuit that the city of Rochester's operation of the high-speed ferry in 2005 was illegally constituted. [News Source]

Federal lawsuit in triple homicide dismissed (WTHR Indianapolis)

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Vanderburgh County officials over the deaths of three people shot by a man who was on work release for a robbery conviction.

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