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Barry Bonds has submitted court papers complaining that his chances for a fair trial could be hurt by typographical errors in a government filing wrongly accusing him of flunking a drug test in 2001.
Dozens of civil suits have already been filed by those wrongly imprisoned, and more suits are expected.
Officials say they expect more than 250 lawsuits to be filed by people wrongly accused of crimes, with potential legal costs to the city running into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
According to a lawsuit later filed by the wrongly raided family, as the police came in with guns drawn, Thomas Russell, 18, asked if he could pen up the family's black Labrador, Lady.
The company said in court documents filed Monday that the Army wrongly withheld the easement because it succumbed to "political pressure" and violence orchestrated by protesters, according to Reuters.
A judge has dismissed the final claim in a libel suit against The Atlanta Journal-Constitution filed by Richard Jewell, the former security guard wrongly linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing.
In separate civil rights lawsuits filed yesterday, five men said they were wrongly removed from commercial airline flights after Sept. 11 solely because other travelers or crew members objected to their Middle Eastern appearance.
Also at issue in the hearing Wednesday — which was the result of a grievance filed by the Major League Baseball Players Association — was whether baseball wrongly extended the deadline for another Boras client, Eric Hosmer, the No. 3 pick, who signed with the Kansas City Royals.
This week, the Players Association filed an unfair labor practice charge -- wrongly reported in the press as a "complaint" -- with the National Labor Relations Board's New York office, claiming bad faith bargaining on the part of the League.
