Business

[11/07] Man attempts to pay $32 bar tab with gum wrappers
[11/06] Retiree seeks return on 10,000 Obama front pages
[10/24] No rest for dead at foreclosed Mich. funeral home
[10/24] Goof leads Wis. store to sells diesel for 59 cents
[11/11] Wartime economy boosts real estate near bases

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Real Estate

[11/14] FDIC says plan could help 1.5 million keep homes
[11/14] Freddie seeks gov't aid after $25.3B loss
[11/14] NTSB to issue final cause in 2007 bridge collapse
[11/13] Las Vegas Sands to fire up to 11,000 Macau workers
[11/13] Michael Jackson gives Neverland to corporation

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Alternative Dispute Resolution

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Civil Rights

[11/10] Texas councilman tells teens to hoist saggy pants
[11/14] Calif. clerks: When does gay-marriage ban begin?
[11/13] Gay activists rally outside Mormon temple in NYC
[11/12] NAACP: Expel NC students for racist Obama graffiti
[11/12] Gay couples to start to marry in Connecticut

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Crime

[11/11] Mass. bank robber allegedly caught 'red handed'
[11/10] Cops have tough time finding sober driver for boy
[11/06] Alleged drunk driver thinks he's driving his car
[11/04] Meth found in boy's Halloween trick or treat bag
[10/28] Accused man allegedly drives stolen SUV to court

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CPSC Recalls

[04/04] Hobby-Lobby Int'l Recalls Battery Chargers Used with Helicopters Due to Fire Hazard
[04/09] Fire Alarm Control Panel Recalled By Gamewell FCI Due to Alert Failure
[04/03] Goodman Manufacturing Co. Recalls Heating and Cooling Units Due to Fire Hazard
[04/08] Wal-Mart Recalls Charm Key Chains Due to Risk of Lead Exposure
[04/06] Push Toys Recalled by Santa's Toy Corp. Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard

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Consumer Products

[11/14] Retail sales fall by record amount in October
[11/14] Thanksgiving little blessing for turkey industry
[11/14] Abercrombie & Fitch 3Q profit falls 46 percent
[11/14] J.C. Penney 3Q profit falls by more than half
[11/13] Italy's Benetton 3Q profits up 12 percent

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Case Summaries

Family Law

[11/07] Choose Life Illinois, Inc. v. White
In a suit by an interest group seeking on First Amendment grounds to force the state of Illinois to issue "Choose Life" specialty license plates, judgment in favor of plaintiffs is reversed where: 1) specialty license plates implicate the speech rights of private speakers, not government speech; 2) specialty plates are a nonpublic forum; and 3) the state could enforce a content-based but viewpoint-neutral ban disallowing any abortion-related message, whether pro-life or pro-choice, to be displayed on its license plates.

[11/06] Aguilar v. Aguilar
Denial of petition to undo a wife's withdrawal of trust property brought by a remainder beneficiary of the trust is reversed and remanded where: 1) even though the property the wife sought to withdraw was her share of the community property, it was too late for her to withdraw it; 2) irrevocable trusts are binding, even on their trustors; and 3) as the life beneficiary, the wife could continue to enjoy the property as held by the trust.

[11/05] Humphries v. County of Los Angeles
California's maintenance of the California's Child Abuse Central Index (CACI), which is a database of known or suspected child abusers, violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because identified individuals are not given a fair opportunity to challenge the allegations against them.

[11/05] In re A.E.
Order directing both parents to participate in Department of children and Family Services (DCFS)-approved "programs of parent education [and] individual counseling addressing all issues including anger management" is affirmed where the father did not object to the order directing him to participate in counseling sessions.

[10/29] Woolard v. Woolard
In a suit alleging mismanagement of a trust established by plaintiff's father for which defendant was trustee, summary judgment for plaintiff is affirmed where: 1) defendant's disbursements of trust funds to plaintiff's father violated the express terms of the trust; 2) a statute permitting disbursements to adult relatives of beneficiaries would only apply if the trust contained no express terms forbidding such disbursements; 3) no showing of bad faith was required to overturn the disbursements, since those disbursements were not discretionary decisions but rather were expressly forbidden; 4) the monthly statements of the trust's brokerage account were not records adequate to satisfy defendant's record-keeping duty; and 5) defendant breached his fiduciary duties by failing to inquire about the use of the disbursed funds.

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