Challenges In The News 07/29/08

The Justice Department's $5.8 million settlement with Steven Hatfill, named a "person of interest" in the 2001 anthrax attacks, leaves unresolved his challenge to reporters' rights in protecting sources of sensitive information.

PESHAWAR, June 28: The federal government supports peace deals signed by the NWFP government with militants in violence-prone areas of the province, but it will allow no one to challenge the government’s writ, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Saturday.

LITTLE ROCK — A Jefferson County circuit judge erred in dismissing a lawsuit challenging a millage increase in the Dollarway School District because plaintiffs challenged the tax, not the millage election, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

CARSON CITY -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio, the dean of the Legislature, on Thursday became the latest of a growing number of Nevada politicians whose right to run for another term has been challenged.

ISLAMABAD, June 26: A petition was filed before the Supreme Court on Thursday challenging the payment of seven-month salaries to the deposed judges, including Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, and seeking to initiate a contempt of court case against the individual who had delivered the cheques.

"IT has an obligation to find a simplified approach to a business problem, and everyone should be challenged to find the most elegant solution."

THE Curve's outdoor Piazza was a hive of activity last Saturday with Fitness First's Community Miracle 08 challenging the public to a workout to raise funds for two non-profit organizations – Mercy Malaysia and Kirtarsh Home, a home for disabled children in Bukit Beruntung in Rawang.

Bengie Molina should have known better. The Giants' speed-challenged catcher should have been satisfied with a single to left in the third inning Wednesday against the Indians.

DIPOLOG CITY--I am still in my hometown attending to my seriously ill mother. But I was told Mayor Tomas Osmeña challenged me to produce my “reliable source” who saw him brandish a gun when he apprehended taxi drivers and owners of private vehicle illegally parked near Fuente Osmeña two weeks ago.

Pro-gun groups filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging a long-standing Chicago handgun ban only hours after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down a similar ban in the District of Columbia.

ROCKWOOD, Tenn. (BP)--Mike Winters challenged himself to read more books than ever before. Averaging more than a book per week, the Southern Baptist pastor read 68 books during 2007.