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Search results for "disputes" ...
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Supreme Court Spat
This story, produced by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and Wisconsin Public Radio, was first to report on a June 13 altercation in which Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser placed his hands on the neck of fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley in a dispute in her office in front of other members of the court. The article reported that the argument concerned the timing of the court's release of a decision upholding Republican Gov. Scott Walker's controversial bill to curb the collective bargaining rights of the state's public employees, and that the Capitol Police Department and the Wisconsin Judicial Commission were informed of the incident. The story also revealed that the Capitol police chief had come in to speak to the court's seven members about it. Although the initial story relied on anonymous sources, all of the facts were subsequently confirmed by on-the-record interviews, and later by police reports.
Tags: Wisconsin Supreme Court; police
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Debt Settlement/Abusive Debt Collection
Debt settlement company complaints are on the rise. The story shows how one family in Minnesota turned to a debt settlement company for help and ended up with increased debt as a result.
Tags: debt settlement; scam; credit card debt; debt; consumer; credit solution disputes
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Storm World
"In the wake of Katrina, the book follows the careers of leading scientists on either side of the argument over the relationship between hurricanes and global warming, tracing how the media, special interests, politics, and the weather itself have skewed and amplified what was already a fraught scientific dispute."
Tags: global warming; hurricane; Katrina; environment; science; politics; media;
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Fatal Flight - The Mystery at Marlboro Airport
Seven years after a seemingly accidental private airplane crash, the Asbury Park Press found evidence that forced the reopening of the federal investigation. The original NTSB investigation of a fatal 1998 plane crash in Marlboro Township, New Jersey, determined that the accident was caused by a bird strike, but the Asbury Park Press consulted experts who determined that sabotage was the most likely cause. The pilot, who died in the crash, had previously testified in a lawsuit that he suspected his planes were being sabotaged. A disputed land deal involving the township's airport provided a motive for murder.
Tags: airports; aviation; airplanes; murder; sabotage; plane crashes; lawsuits; NTSB; bribes
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'Mess' for Ware
This story is an in-depth report on Green Farm Resort, a 2,300 acre development in Kentucky, where a dispute between developers -- including colorful Dallas personality Sam Ware -- resulted in broken promises for owners of 400 lots.
Tags: land; development; real estate; investment; fraud
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Dallas/Fort Worth Contractors' Dispute
This story is about the failure of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to pay subcontractors in a timely manner for the airport's largest capital development project since it was built, a 2.7 billion dollar project.
Tags: business; construction; contractors; travel; airplanes; 9/11; airline industry; travel; Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
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Battered Justice
This extensive investigative series examines the methods used to deal with domestic violence cases in Colorado. While domestic violence and assault laws have changed drastically over the past 15 years to help victims of abuse, advocacy groups are still unsure as to whether the laws are helpful or causing more harm to victims. Others don't want to dispute these laws for fear that old beliefs will return about domestic violence not being a crime.
Tags: assault and battery; domestic abuse laws; mandatory arrest
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Falling Apart/Licensed, Bonded, Unaccountable
The Oregonian revealed that new residential structures across the Northwest are suffering sometimes catastrophic damage from moisture not just due to poor workmanship, but also to shoddy construction, trouble-prone building materials, inappropriate design and unanticipated complications caused by energy efficient building codes. The stories detail the financial and emotional impact on homeowners, how their dispute with builders has clogged the legal system and how builders have turned to the Legislature for protection from a rash of litigation. In addition, the investigation reveals that the Oregon Construction Contractors Board, the state agency charged with protecting consumers from bad contractors, has allowed builders with histories of incompetence, insolvency and unethical behavior to continue building, without notifying consumers of the dangers.
Tags: CAR; Oregon Construction Contractors Board; Northwest; Portland; construction defect litigation; builders; Oregon Legislature; Construction Claims Task Force; regulation
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Was Furor over AFA scandal justified? Women's stories on Oprah disputed.
The Gazette gathered documents and did interviews suggesting that "senior Air Force leaders succumbed to accusations without collecting all the facts. Case files showed the cases at the heart of the scandal to be clearly questionable from a prosecutor's standpoint. These findings challenge the actions taken by senior leaders and claims made by the women making some of the allegations."
Tags: assault; abuse; air force; rape; Senate Armed Services Committee
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Deadly Moves
The Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Tranformation was an effort to demolish the city's public housing buildings and replace them with mixed-income neighborhoods. But the demolition puts competing street gangs and drug dealers in small public housing spaces. The number of murders has increased since 2000. The reporters uncover whether this plan has a negative or positive impact, and what the city plans to do about the growing conflict.
Tags: Chicago Housing Authority; Plan for Tranformation; public housing; mixed-income neighborhoods; territorial disputes