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From Wal-Mart to hot dogs, courts important for workers

September 7, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

So you still don't think courts are important to workers? Betty Dukes and Nolan Koewler can quickly set you straight.

Judge halts “don’t ask, don’t tell”

October 13, 2010 By Pepe Lozano

U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips in Riverside, Calif., ordered the military Tuesday, Oct. 12, to immediately stop enforcing the controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, putting a halt to the 17-year-old law.

Outrage mounts over Judge Feldman’s conflict of interest

July 7, 2010 By Tim Wheeler

Calls for the impeachment of Federal Judge Martin Feldman are growing louder as outrage mounts over his June 22 decision to overturn President Obama's moratorium on deep-ocean oil well drilling.

Prosecutors target Northwestern University journalism students

January 14, 2010

CHICAGO, Ill. – Cook County prosecutors here have issued a subpoena seeking the grades and emails of journalism students at Northwestern University. The students conducted a three-year investigation that they say found a man serving a...