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NY lawsuit seeks damages for use of Rockwell illustration (The Charlotte Observer)
Saturday May 03rd 2008, 7:04 pm

The owner of Norman Rockwell’s “Bottom of the 6th” - showing three umpires looking skyward as first raindrops fall - is steaming over the use of the classic illustration in the television series “The Bronx is Burning.” Curtis Publishing Co. Inc. has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan seeking to stop ESPN Inc. from rebroadcasting the series about the 1977 New York Yankees until …

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NY lawsuit seeks damages for use of Rockwell illustration (The Charlotte Observer)
Saturday May 03rd 2008, 2:21 pm

The owner of Norman Rockwell’s “Bottom of the 6th” - showing three umpires looking skyward as first raindrops fall - is steaming over the use of the classic illustration in the television series “The Bronx is Burning.” Curtis Publishing Co. Inc. has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan seeking to stop ESPN Inc. from rebroadcasting the series about the 1977 New York Yankees until …

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National City faces lawsuit over investment deal (WKYC Cleveland)
Saturday May 03rd 2008, 1:51 pm

CLEVELAND–An Ohio newspaper’s parent company, which owns stock in National City Corp., has filed a lawsuit seeking to block a $7 billion deal that is expected to rescue the bank from bad loans tied to home mortgage lending.

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Judge Dismisses Ex-MTA Security Chief’s Lawsuit (WCBS-TV New York)
Saturday May 03rd 2008, 8:41 am

A judge has thrown out a former Metropolitan Transportation Authority security chief’s federal lawsuit claiming he was fired for trying to expose corruption in the nation’s largest mass-transit system.

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Children of country music writer drop wrongful death lawsuit (AP via Yahoo! News)
Saturday May 03rd 2008, 5:55 am

The children of a hit country music songwriter have dropped a wrongful death lawsuit accusing their evangelist aunt of promising to use her healing powers to cure the cancer that killed their father and then stealing an inheritance that could be worth millions.

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Freedom Hill lawsuit goes to jury (Detroit News)
Saturday May 03rd 2008, 1:08 am

DETROIT — Macomb County got “the deal of the century” when a private developer spent $20 million to build a Sterling Heights entertainment venue the county would own as an ongoing revenue source, a lawyer for the company that leases Freedom Hill Amphitheatre told jurors in a federal lawsuit Friday.

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