A lawsuit challenging U.S. funding for human embryonic stem-cell studies was dismissed by a federal judge after an appeals court found the government-backed research is probably lawful. S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth in Washington on Wednesday ended a lawsuit in which two doctors sought to block the U.S. Health and Human Services Department and the National Institutes of Health from spending federal funds on research involving human embryonic stem cells.
While efforts to drastically change Arizona's school finance system have not materialized in recent years at the Legislature, two lawsuits that aim to do that are creeping through Maricopa County Superior Court. One of the lawsuits, filed in September 2009 by 13 charter school students and their parents, seeks equal funding as traditional public school students, and it has a reached a pivotal point in the proceedings.
ATLANTA - Gov. Sonny Perdue has asked the Georgia attorney general to rule on whether local school districts can use taxpayer money to pay for lawsuits against the state. Mr. Perdue sent the request to Attorney General Thurbert Baker on Tuesday, a week after the Consortium for Adequate School Funding in Georgia withdrew a 4-year-old lawsuit claiming the state has an unfair system of paying for education.
Chief Judge Kitty Brennan is telling Milwaukee County supervisors that they could face a lawsuit on court funding unless they restore judicial and court staffing that County Executive Scott Walker has pegged for elimination in 2006. Brennan is offering to operate with a property-tax-freeze budget that would also restore courtroom security officers whom Walker wants cut from the Sheriff's Department. And she's open to a full- scale efficiency study of the courts.
State officials have about a week to respond to a lawsuit that could force lawmakers and the governor to overhaul California's school finance system and policies. The suit says the current education financing system is unconstitutional and asks the court to require the establishment of one that provides the proper funding for all of the state's programs.
AUGUSTA - Critics of Maine's public campaign financing program are asking the courts to suspend part of the law in a move that, if successful, could have significant impacts on this November's races for governor and the State House. Bolstered by recent court victories against other states with similar laws, two individuals and two conservative groups filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Thursday challenging the constitutionality of a key portion of the Maine Clean Election Act.
Fifty of West Virginia's 55 county school boards are asking a circuit court judge to place sole responsibility for funding retiree health-care costs on the state. The school boards filed a lawsuit Monday in Kanawha Circuit Court against the state's Public Employees Insurance Agency, the agency's finance board and the state auditor.
The Capital-Journal Shawnee County District Court Judge Franklin Theis has been named the presiding judge of a three-member panel assigned to hear a lawsuit challenging the level of state funding for Kansas public schools.
LONG BEACH - When should the city say "when" in its spending on a lawsuit? That was a question discussed by City Council members Tuesday in a split decision over how to proceed in funding a lawsuit against former Queen Mary operator Joseph Prevratil.
Dodge City clinic joins suit
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