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The Dolan Company’s proposed reorganization plan to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy undervalues the company and amounts to a hostile takeover, the shareholders committee claims in court documents made public Tuesday.

A Minnesota activist is alleging the NSA and Department of Homeland Security violated his First Amendment rights by issuing cease-and-desist letters against his merchandise.

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I was flipping through the morning talk shows (awww, look at the Scottish deerhound!) when I came across a disturbing consumer report on “Good Morning America” about toning shoes.

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John Coomer alleges one of Sluggerrr’s throws hit him in the eye and caused a detached retina. The mascot “threw the hotdog directly into” Coomer rather than throwing it in an arc “high into the stands,” Coomer wrote in his lawsuit seeking more than $25,000 in damages.

Did you know John Marshall, the former Supreme Court chief justice, kept a whoopee cushion under his desk for “special occasions”? Or that early 20th century Justice Rufus Peckham would occasionally appear on the bench as his alter ego, Doofus Peckham, complete with cockney accent?

Becoming a clerk on the U.S. Supreme Court seems to require two things: Come from a top-10 law school, and have the right (or left) ideology.

Longtime Cleveland Plain Dealer classical music critic Don Rosenberg early this month lost his lawsuit against the paper and the Cleveland Orchestra, which he alleged forced him out of his position because of negative reviews in 2008. (Rosenberg has been re-assigned on the paper's staff.)

The American Bar Association's Special Committee on the U.S. News and World Report Rankings issued its findings last month. The committee, which included University of Maryland School of Law Dean Phoebe Haddon, stated the following: