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By Ilyce R. Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin | December 21, 2008
Can a company put a lien on your house or property if you're incarcerated? My brother has been in jail for 10 years. He returned his car to the finance company and they in turn auctioned it off for $4,000 less than what he owed on it. Can they sue or take his house? Whether a person is incarcerated or not isn't the issue. If a creditor is able to get a judgment against the person who owed it money, that creditor can then try to satisfy that judgment anyway it can. One of those ways is to go after assets owned by the debtor: his bank accounts, cars and even real estate.
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By Jill Zuckman and John McCormick | September 27, 2008
OXFORD, Miss. - In a momentous first meeting, the two presidential candidates sparred intensely and at times heatedly last night over the financial crisis consuming Wall Street and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The first of three televised presidential debates at the University of Mississippi came at the end of an already dramatic week in Washington and on Wall Street, as the administration, congressional leaders and the two candidates wrestled over a bailout package for the financial industry.
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By Tricia Bishop | December 29, 2007
A civil court case filed last month in U.S. District Court in Baltimore - alleging racketeering by Sparrows Point shipyard owner Vincent F. Barletta and others - has been settled for an undisclosed amount, according to the plaintiff's attorney. The suit was filed by ship-breaking company Clean Venture Inc., which had won a $750,000 judgment earlier from the North American Ship Recycling company, or NASR, where Barletta was a vice president. NASR disappeared from its Sparrows Point location before the judgment - money owed for contracting work - was paid, leading Clean Venture to sue Barletta along with his brother, their attorney, multiple colleagues and affiliated businesses.
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By Sara Neufeld | December 1, 2007
The Baltimore school system has dropped its appeal in a lawsuit alleging that a 12-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in math class five years ago, and it will pay the girl and her mother a $100,000 judgment ordered by a lower court. The system's action came after a Sun article Sunday detailed the family's plight. The girl, now 17, has been hospitalized in psychiatric facilities 21 times since the incident on Nov. 27, 2002, and she is now living in a residential facility for vulnerable adolescents.
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By Matthew Dolan | November 14, 2007
The Kansas-based anti-gay church that was smacked with a $10.9 million jury award against its members has asked a federal judge in Baltimore to review the judgment. The father of a Marine killed in Iraq successfully sued Westboro Baptist Church and three of its leaders for invading his family's privacy when church members waved anti-gay signs at his son's funeral in Westminster. The verdict late last month in U.S. District Court in Baltimore was the first against Westboro Baptist Church, a small but vocal Christian group based in Topeka that has protested military funerals with placards bearing shock-value messages such as "Thank God for dead soldiers."
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By Roger Moore | July 28, 2007
Any lingering doubts that Lindsay Lohan's judgment isn't all that it should be are answered with I Know Who Killed Me, forever hereafter known as the movie that came out the week her personal life may have hit rock bottom. It's an unintentionally hilarious disaster, a movie seemingly built on wickedly ironic prescience. What else would you call a film about a woman who loses a leg and is fitted with a rechargeable one that beeps, a movie starring an actress infamous for wearing (and ignoring)
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July 8, 2007
The president defended his decision last week to commute the 2 1/2 -year prison term of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. in the CIA leak case. Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. "I rule nothing in or nothing out," Bush said when asked about whether he might pardon Libby before leaving office in January 2009. Democrats and the prosecutor in the case were sharply critical of the move. ?I made a judgment, a considered judgment. I stand by it.? President Bush
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By Leonard Pitts Jr. | January 21, 2007
President Obama? No, not yet. But the intention of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois to move toward that goal seems clear with last week's news that he is forming an exploratory committee to raise money toward a possible White House bid next year. Count me among those who regard it as a foregone conclusion. Strike while the iron is hot. Isn't that what the axiom says? And whose iron has ever been hotter than Mr. Obama's? The man is a combination plate of handsome, intelligent and charismatic that has his supporters giddy.
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By MICHAEL HILL | March 19, 2006
Back in the 1990s, when Francis Fukuyama spoke, the emerging neoconservative movement listened. This Johns Hopkins University professor was often saying - especially in his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man - what the neocons wanted to hear. Now he is not. His new book, America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy, takes the neocons to task for, among other things, getting the United States involved in the Iraq war. That judgment from someone once considered a neocon icon appears to be cementing a consensus among both experts and the general public - as expressed in recent polls - that the United States made serious errors when it invaded Iraq three years ago this week, errors in intelligence, in strategy and in tactics.
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August 21, 2005
Dear Mr. Azrael: I loaned my daughter $1,600 to close on her house and $1,500 to put a boiler in it. I also let her use a credit card of mine which she took to its $5,000 limit. Now she has become angry with me because I asked her to start paying me back. How can I go about putting a lien on her house? I am 65 years old, and I need my money. Dear Reader: A lien is a claim on a home or other property. If a validly recorded lien is not paid, the lien holder can institute a legal proceeding to sell the property.