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Lawsuits revived by soldiers over waste disposal

2014-03-07 03:12:20| Energy - Topix.net

A federal appeals court on Thursday revived dozens of lawsuits by soldiers and others who claim they were harmed by improper waste disposal while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Lawsuits revived by soldiers over waste disposal

2014-03-07 02:59:00| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

A federal appeals court on Thursday revived dozens of lawsuits by soldiers and others who claim they were harmed by improper waste disposal while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Are federal sugar subsidies financing lawsuits over market share?

2014-02-28 08:09:54| Sugar Industry News

Everyone knows that sugar is sweet. What they don\'t know is that it is also politically powerful. As Chris Edwards, the director of tax policy studies at Washington\'s Cato Institute wrote in the fall of 2013, No industry in America is as coddled as farming, and no industry is as centrally planned from Washington. The federal sugar program is perhaps the most Soviet of all.

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DOJ files its first lawsuits over counterfeit apps

2014-01-27 13:03:32| InfoWorld: Top News

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed its first lawsuits over counterfeit smartphone apps, charging four men who now face up to five years each in prison. "These crimes involve the large-scale violation of intellectual property rights in a relatively new and rapidly growing market," Mythili Raman, acting assistant attorney general for the DOJ's criminal division, said in a statement Friday.

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