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Arizona AG plans to appeal voter ID ruling to high court After a federal appeals court refused to reconsider its decision to forbid Arizona from implementing voter identification requirements until further notice, Attorney General Terry Goddard will petition the U.S. ...

I’ve been a little cranky in my past two columns. Money’s tight, bills are due, and people owe me. Last week, however, I got through an experience that gave me some hope that sometimes people do listen and make good ...

State law prohibits ticket scalping. But if you want tickets to a sold-out Chiefs game or playoff games in St. Louis, you can find them. The law says that you can’t resell a ticket for a higher value. And the ...

The three U.S. credit-reporting companies, TransUnion, Equifax and Experian Group, were sued by a company that claims their new consumer credit-scoring system violates antitrust and unfair competition laws. Fair Isaac Corp., a Minneapolis firm that sells the competing FICO credit-scoring ...

As in the consumer automobile industry, leasing has become a popular method for businesses to acquire office equipment. In fact, according to the Equipment Leasing Association, 80 percent of companies lease some or all of their equipment. Of the $850 ...

Arbitron, the biggest radio-ratings supplier in the United States, sued rivals Ipsos and Media Audit, claiming their plan to develop a competing service infringes Arbitron’s patents. Arbitron filed a lawsuit last week in federal court in Texas, claiming the two ...

It would be nearly impossible for an inmate undergoing a lethal injection procedure in Maryland to receive less than an appropriate dosage of anesthesia and feel pain as he died, a state medical witness testified Wednesday in a federal trial ...

A certified nursing assistant who inserts intravenous needles for Maryland executions testified this week that she examined the veins of death row inmate Vernon L. Evans Jr. three times, each time finding many suitable for lethal injection. The nursing assistant ...

Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., the maker of “curiously strong” Altoid mints, was sued by a private company that wants to sell a parody version. Munchkin says it’s been threatened over a plan to market “ferociously strong” Cattoids and Dogtoids treats. ...

Motorola must defend at trial a $30 million gender-discrimination lawsuit brought by its former chief of worldwide purchasing. U.S. District Judge David Coar in Chicago last week denied Motorola’s request to dismiss the suit, ruling that ex-Senior Vice President Theresa ...

A town could require door-to-door solicitors to register in advance and cease their activities by 7 p.m., a U.S. District Court judge has found. Arguing that its First Amendment rights were being violated, the plaintiff — a nonprofit political advocacy ...