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Penn State abuse scandal likely to spawn lawsuits (AP)

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2011 file photo, former Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald 'Jerry' Sandusky sits in a car as he leaves the office of Centre County Magisterial District Judge Leslie A. Dutchcot in State College, Pa. Sandusky, who is charged with sexually abusing eight boys in a scandal that has rocked the university, said in an telephone interview with Bob Costas Monday night on NBC News' 'Rock Center' that there was no abuse and that any activities in a campus shower with a boy were just horseplay, not molestation. (AP Photo/The Patriot-News, Andy Colwell, File)AP – Legal experts say it’s probably going to take civil litigation to get out the full story about what occurred in the Penn State child sex abuse scandal.


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Federal court tosses lawsuits over health reform (AP)

AP – A federal appeals court in Virginia dismissed two lawsuits Thursday that had challenged the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.

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Conservatives limit consumer, rights lawsuits (AP)

FILE - In this June 21, 2001 file photo, demonstrators gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington to protest the court's Wal-Mart sex discrimination class action lawsuit decision .  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP – The Supreme Court’s conservative majority made it harder for people to band together to sue the nation’s largest businesses in the two most far-reaching rulings of the term the justices are wrapping up on Monday.


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Trustee for Madoff victims files 40 lawsuits in NY (AP)

AP – Relatives of both Bernard Madoff and his wife are among those being targeted in 40 lawsuits announced Friday by the trustee endeavoring to recover money for victims fleeced by the disgraced financier.

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Deal settles most lawsuits over WTC toxic dust (AP)

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2001 file photo, firefighters and emergency personnel remove debris from the site of the World Trade Center towers' collapse in New York. More than 10,000 people have joined a legal settlement that will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to workers exposed to the tons of toxic dust that blanketed Lower Manhattan after the World Trade Center fell, officials announced Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, File)AP – A deal reached by New York City and workers exposed to toxic dust that blanketed ground zero after Sept. 11 will resolve an overwhelming majority of the lawsuits over the city’s failure to provide protective equipment to the responders.


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Republican senator says he backs birther lawsuits (AP)

President Barack Obama listens during his meeting with Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez, not shown, Monday, July 12, 2010, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP – Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana says he supports conservative organizations challenging President Barack Obama’s citizenship in court.


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Lawsuits challenge new Arizona immigration law (AP)

Day laborers stand along Arizona Ave. in Chandler, Ariz. on Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Arizona's sweeping immigration bill allows police to arrest illegal immigrant day laborers seeking work on the street or anyone trying to hire them. It won't take effect until summer but it is already having an effect on the state's underground economy. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP – An Arizona police officer and a Latino group filed the first legal challenges of Arizona’s sweeping new law cracking down on illegal immigration Thursday.


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