Details emerge at last on why city settled Bates lawsuit when it did (The Kansas City Star) At least two Kansas City Council members say they think the city’s efforts to settle the Ruth Bates discrimination lawsuit were compromised by information leaks from inside City Hall. As a result, the plaintiff’s attorneys knew how high the council had authorized City Attorney Galen Beaufort to go with Bates’ attorneys, they say. [News Source]

McNamee Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Clemens (New York Times) Brian McNamee, the former personal trainer for Roger Clemens, filed a defamation lawsuit against him Friday. [News Source]

Lawsuit accuses Wells Fargo of mortgage bias (Chicago Tribune) Illinois Atty. Gen Lisa Madigan today said she is suing Wells Fargo and Co., alleging the national mortgage lender discriminated against black and Latino homeowners by selling them high-cost home loans. Madigan's lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, contends white borrower received lower cost loans than minority borrowers with similar incomes. Read more on Clout Street. [News Source]

Kindle Lawsuit Filed Over Orwell ‘1984′ E-book Deletions by Amazon (PC World via Yahoo! News) It's here -- the first lawsuit in the case of Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader and the whims of a company that deleted two George Orwell novels, "1984" and "Animal Farm," from Kindles without warning customers. [News Source]

China accepts 1st environment lawsuit against govt (AP via Yahoo! News) A court in southwest China has accepted the country's first lawsuit filed by an environmental group against a local government, a member of the group said Friday. [News Source]

Lawsuit Filed Against Helena Wells Fargo (KFBB Great Falls) A Wells Fargo bank in Helena is under fire after six women filed a federal lawsuit claiming they were wrongly fired and discriminated against because of their gender. [News Source]

Judges say they cannot preside in Va. Tech lawsuit (NBC 12 Richmond) BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - The circuit judges in Montgomery County say they cannot preside over the civil lawsuit filed by families of 2 slain students in the Virginia Tech mass shootings. [News Source]

Judges say they cannot preside in Va. Tech lawsuit (WRIC 8 News Richmond) Associated Press - July 30, 2009 11:15 PM ET BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - The circuit judges in Montgomery County say they cannot preside over the civil lawsuit filed by families of 2 slain students... [News Source]

Lawsuit: Inmate at Jeffco jail not a suicide (9 News Denver) DENVER (AP) - A federal lawsuit claims a Jefferson County inmate found dead in his jail cell with tube socks tied around his neck was killed by another inmate, not by suicide as authorities contend. [News Source]

Trenton settles lawsuit, agrees to pay more than $580K (Middletown Journal) TRENTON — The City of Trenton has settled a lawsuit with a sheet metal company that worked on its wastewater treatment plant, agreeing to pay the company $587,500. City Council legislated the settlement during a special meeting held Thursday, July 30. City Manager John Jones said the company Orbit Sheet Metal, based in Dayton, sued the city in 2006, alleging nonpayment. . . . [News Source]