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The PBS star attracted crowds to what appeared on the surface as a way to help black borrowers build wealth, but a lawsuit alleges it was actually just the opposite.

Few innocent victims of post-9/11 counter-terrorism policies have been able to sustain their claims against government officials in federal courts, although many have tried.  But on Friday, a federal appeals court held that a U.S. citizen detained for more than two weeks as a “material witness” and then released under severe restrictions can sue former [...]

As health care, Iran and banking reform grab the headlines and lawmakers’ attention, advocates for immigration reform are turning to prayer vigils and lawsuits that seem to have a thin legal basis but may have broad sympathetic appeal.
On Wednesday, dozens of American-born children of parents who’ve been deported gathered at a Miami nonprofit organization with [...]

… you might see your dollars sucked into a defense fund for a lawsuit that has a bit less to do with control of the Senate than the former senator’s challenges of the results of the 2008 election.
Former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) has requested permission to use his campaign funds for legal fees relating to [...]

In my quest to find former “enemy combatants” who were required to agree not to sue the United States for unlawful indefinite detention and mistreatment as a condition of their release, I’ve found another one: John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban.”

In a rare victory for torture victims, a federal judge yesterday ruled that detainees who claim they were tortured at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq can move ahead with their lawsuit against defense contractor CACI, which t the U.S. government hired to assist in interrogations of Iraqi prisoners.
CNN reports that U.S. District Court [...]

Even with the Obama Justice Department on the side of John Yoo, the former Bush administration deputy assistant attorney general at the Office of Legal Counsel, a federal judge hearing former enemy combatant Jose Padilla’s lawsuit against Yoo on Friday seemed wary of dismissing the case, The New York Times reports.
The Obama administration is now [...]

It’s hard to divine the Justice Department’s intentions on almost anything these days, given that Attorney General Eric Holder has barely been in office two weeks and doesn’t even have all of his senior staff yet. But if I were trying to read the tea leaves, I’d say we got a good sign yesterday.
As I [...]

Our siblings at The Minnesota Independent have the breakdown of the first statewide Minnesota poll taken since the recount ended and former GOP Sen. Norm Coleman’s kicking and screaming began in earnest. The results are inconclusive, colored by heavy partisanship on the part of both candidates’ supporters.
The big picture: the percentage of Minnesotans who favor [...]

The fight that neighborhoods in Cleveland are launching against banks that dump vacant and vandalized foreclosed homes back onto the real estate market received a bit of a setback, as I noted in my story Monday. A private, non-profit housing advocacy group had filed suit in local housing court to force the banks to clean [...]