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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Hasbro hit back Friday in a lawsuit over who owns the rights to The Game of Life, flatly denying claims by a toy inventor's widow who says her husband created the board game and that she is owed $2 million or more in royalties.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A third-grader was taken off a school bus and questioned for hours by police because another girl falsely reported the 8-year-old had chemicals in her backpack, her family said in a lawsuit Thursday. The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, which filed the federal lawsuit
Abortion
WASHINGTON – As Congress gears up for a fresh investigation into the practices at Planned Parenthood clinics around the nation, Susan Thayer awaits a court decision on her fraud lawsuit against the nonprofit women's health-care organization's Iowa branch. Thayer's case, stemming from her more than
Massachusetts
BOSTON (AP) — A Salem witch has won a protective court order against a warlock she accuses of harassing her. The Boston Globe reported that a judge granted the order to witch priestess Lori Sforza, who accused self-proclaimed warlock Christian Day of harassing her over the phone and Internet for years.
police
PHILADELPHIA — A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim groups in New Jersey after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying any resulting harm came from the city's tactics, not the media's reporting of them.
Massachusetts
BOSTON (AP) — The owner of a Massachusetts dumpling restaurant has sued three people she says stole her secret family recipe and opened a nearly identical eatery. Nadia Liu Spellman, owner of Dumpling Daughter in Weston, says in her lawsuit filed in federal court this week that only three people knew
Abortion
DETROIT (CNA/EWTN News) — Trinity Health Corporations, one of the largest Catholic health care operations in America, is seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union over its refusal to provide women with abortion services at their medical facilities. "This case has no merit.
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BOSTON — Plans for a casino in Everett face a new roadblock after both Somerville and Boston sued to block the Wynn Resorts project on the shores of the Mystic River, claiming that the developer failed to adequately address environmental impacts, particularly traffic congestion it is likely to cause in Charlestown
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