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• Author: Oliver, Charles
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Police in Merseyside, England, have agreed to pay [pounds sterling]5,000 to settle a false arrest claim by George Wilson. Wilson was arrested forgiving a homeless man [pounds sterling]1 by a police officer who thought it was a drug deal.

Albuquerque firefighter Matthew Sanchez has resigned after snapping at a 911 caller trying to keep a teenage shooting victim alive. Sanchez was working as an emergency dispatcher at the time. The caller got angry when he repeatedly asked if the boy was breathing. "He is barely breathing, how many times do I have to [expletive] tell you?" she said. "OK, you know what ma'am? You can deal with it yourself," Sanchez responded. Then he apparently hung up the phone. The victim later died.

The state of Georgia has sued Carl Malamud, owner of government watchdog website, for publishing the annotated state code online. The state contends that its legal code is copyrighted.

Josh Goetz bought a 2006 Trailblazer from a used car dealer back in March. Two months later, New York state police seized it as part of a murder investigation and tore it apart. Goetz says when he asked the cops to reimburse him, they said he'd have to hire a lawyer.

The Law Society of Alberta is threatening to sanction journalist and attorney Ezra Levant for a newspaper column calling the Alberta Human Rights Commission "crazy." Levant could be fined, suspended, or disbarred.

The Christian owner of an Olympia pharmacy says that forcing him to sell the morning-after pill, which he considers an abortifacient, violates his religious freedom. Butthe U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals...