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• Judge asked to block wild horse roundup in Nevada

  —The Westerner

  An animal protection group asked a federal judge Wednesday to block a plan to round up about 2,500 wild horses to remove them from a Nevada range. The mustang roundup planned for Dec. 28 would be one of the largest in Nevada in recent years. Federal officials plan to use [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 5:45am EST
  

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• Hage estate wins again

  —The Westerner

  A federal judge has added $150,000 to the original $4.22 million judgment won by the estate of rancher Wayne Hage in a years-long battle over property rights. The federal government had asked Senior Judge Loren Smith to throw out the judgment. Instead, he increased it. Hage, a leader of the [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:34am EST
  

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• Judge: Corps' Negligence Caused Katrina Flooding

  —The Westerner

  A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval sided with five residents and one business who argued the Army Corps' shoddy oversight of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet led [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:38am EST
  

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• Federal judge orders college to allow "empty holster" protest

  —The Westerner

  A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order Friday allowing two Tarrant County College students to stage their "empty holster" protest at the community college campuses. U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means said in his ruling that Clayton Smith and John Schwertz Jr., who attend TCC Northeast Campus in Hurst, [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 3:21am EST
  

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