Maryclaire Dale

February 17, 2010 | Daily Report Online

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November 15, 2010 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - Two mothers filed a free-speech lawsuit Monday against a Pennsylvania school district that suspended their daughters for wearing the popular "I heart boobies" bracelets.The American Civil Liberties Union believes the lawsuit is the first in the country over a school's ban on the $4 bracelets, which are designed to raise breast-cancer awareness among young people.

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March 22, 2007 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - A federal judge on Thursday dealt another blow to government efforts to control Internet pornography, striking down a 1998 U.S. law that makes it a crime for commercial Web site operators to let children access ''harmful'' material.In the ruling, the judge said parents can protect their children through software filters and other less restrictive means that do not limit the rights of others to free speech.

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February 19, 2010 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - A suburban Philadelphia school district used school-issued laptop webcams to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations, a family claims in a federal lawsuit.Officials at the school district can activate webcams on the computers without students' knowledge or permission, the lawsuit alleges.

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April 09, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Former NFL players trying to sue the league over concussion-linked injuries argued in court Tuesday that the NFL "glorified" violence and profited from damaging hits to the head. Players' lawyer David Frederick also accused the league of concealing the emerging science about concussions over several decades, even after creating a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury committee in 1994.

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October 26, 2007 | Daily Report Online

NORRISTOWN, Pa. AP - A 14-year-old boy accused of plotting a Columbine-style attack on a suburban Philadelphia high school admitted in court Friday that he illegally stockpiled weapons.Dillon Cossey, 14, admitted to three crimes - criminal solicitation, risking a catastrophe and possession of an instrument of crime - in Montgomery County juvenile court.

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February 03, 2009 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - A Jamaican woman who lost her American husband in the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash cannot remain in the U.S. because they were not married long enough, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.Osserritta Robinson, 31, of Mahwah, N.J., is one of about 170 immigrants who have been denied residency status because of what some call the "widow penalty": a U.

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May 27, 2008 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - A Boy Scouts chapter engaged in a long fight over gay rights has sued the city of Philadelphia to try to avoid paying $200,000 a year in rent to stay in the city-owned space that has been its headquarters for 80 years.The Cradle of Liberty Council currently pays $1 annually for the space, but the city has given it until Saturday to open their membership to gays or start being charged fair-market rent.

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October 27, 2009 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - A Philadelphia jury returned a sealed punitive-damages verdict Monday against drugmaker Wyeth Pharmaceuticals after finding a link between a woman's breast cancer and the hormone-replacement drug she took.Connie Barton's case is one of a handful of Prempro lawsuits to go to trial out of several thousand filed across the country.

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July 14, 2008 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - A 22-year-old woman will probably face six years in prison after admitting Monday that she and her boyfriend pulled off a brazen identity-theft scheme that funded trips, fancy dinners and expensive salon visits.Travel photos show Jocelyn Kirsch and ex-beau Edward Anderton, a onetime Ivy League swimmer, posing in matching red swimsuits by a luxury hotel pool and kissing near the Eiffel Tower.

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