Yahoo’s fight to conceal large portions of shareholder lawsuit raises questions about motives (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company's board improperly thwarted Micrsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover offer, raising shareholder questions over the motives for the secrecy. [News Source]

Judge dismisses physician’s lawsuit (Billings Gazette) BUTTE - A physician's lawsuit against the Butte hospital and its medical staff has been dismissed. [News Source]

Attorneys call pension probe ‘illegal and unconstitutional’ in new lawsuit (BizJournals) An Albany, N.Y., attorney filed a class-action lawsuit against state leaders in an attempt to end ongoing investigations of lawyers who are members of the state's pension system. [News Source]

Patriots’ lawsuit against Boston Herald would be huge mess (The Sporting News via Yahoo! News) It appears unlikely the New England Patriots will file a lawsuit against the Boston Herald regarding the false report from February 2 that said the Patriots videotaped the Rams' walk-through practice prior to Super Bowl 36. But the prospect of a barristers' brouhaha between the Pats and the Herald has captured the imagination of many NFL observers. (Well, it has at least intrigued this ... [News Source]

Lawsuit: Immigration raid violated workers’ rights (The Charlotte Observer) The nation's largest single immigration raid, resulting in nearly 400 arrests earlier this week, violated the constitutional rights of workers at a meatpacking plant, a federal lawsuit says. The lawsuit accuses the government of arbitrary and indefinite detention. It seeks to prevent the government from moving the arrested workers out-of-state as their cases wend through the system. A spokesman ... [News Source]

Lawsuit: Immigration raid violated workers’ rights (AP via Yahoo! News) The nation's largest single immigration raid, resulting in nearly 400 arrests earlier this week, violated the constitutional rights of workers at a meatpacking plant, a federal lawsuit says. [News Source]

Texas mayors, business leaders file lawsuit hoping to block US-Mexico border fence (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) WASHINGTON - Texas mayors and business leaders filed a class-action lawsuit Friday alleging Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff hoodwinked landowners into waiving their property rights for construction of a fence along the Mexican border. [News Source]

Federal lawsuit filed in immigration raid (WOI-TV Des Moines) The lawsuit was filed on Thursday in Cedar Rapids, and names the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division and several government officials. It claims government agencies and officials violated the workers' constitutional rights. [News Source]

Federal lawsuit filed in immigration raid (WHO-TV 13 Des Moines) Associated Press - May 16, 2008 1:04 PM ET Corrected Version The lawsuit was filed on Thursday in Cedar Rapids, and names the Immigration and Customs... [News Source]

Federal class-action lawsuit filed in immig raid (New York Daily News) A federal class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of immigrant workers arrested Monday in a meatpacking plant in Iowa, in the largest single raid in U.S. history. The lawsuit alleges that officials violated the workers' constitutional rights. [News Source]