lawsuit

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 [...]

Republican party officials filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday seeking to overturn the ban on “soft money,” or unlimited campaign contributions, that is the primary law their presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, was famous for.
As the Wall Street Journal reports today, the Republicans, after losing the presidency to a Democratic candidate who’d received an unprecedented [...]

Michigan Democrats and Republicans reached a settlement Monday in a lawsuit charging that the Republican Party planned to illegally use lists of foreclosed residents to challenge voters on Election Day. The case was brought based on statements made to a reporter for TWI’s sibling publication, The Michigan Messenger.

Over at our sister site Michigan Messenger, Ed Brayton reports that the lawyer representing Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign in a class-action, voting rights lawsuit is calling a GOP tactic to prevent Michigan residents in foreclosure from voting a new form of “caging.”