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San Diego’s city attorney said on Wednesday he filed a lawsuit against Bank of America Corp and its Countrywide unit to prevent the mortgage lenders from foreclosing on homes in the city, which he aims to make a “foreclosure sanctuary.” City Attorney Michael Aguirre plans to file similar lawsuits against Washington Mutual Inc, Wells Fargo & Co and Wachovia Corp in an effort to make the lenders negotiate with mortgage borrowers facing foreclosure. “We would like to see San Diego become a foreclosure sanctuary,” Aguirre said. Housing markets across Southern California, including the city of San Diego and the county of the same name, are seeing steep increases in foreclosure rates because so many homes bought there earlier this decade involved subprime mortgages and other types of risky loans. More

(UPI) — The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the Department of Justice to get details about how federal authorities are using their ability to monitor people’s movements through their cell phones without a warrant. The case highlights the controversial use by the government of investigative tools made possible by newly ubiquitous technologies in an increasingly wireless world — in this case mobile phones, which constantly update the companies that provide them with real-time information about their location. More

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A FOX NEWS employee who says she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after being bitten by bedbugs at work filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the owner of the Manhattan office tower where she worked. Jane Clark, 37, a 12-year veteran of Fox News, a unit of News Corp, said she complained to human resources after being bitten three times between October 2007 and April 2008.

She said she was ridiculed and the office was not treated for months. Clark, who says she’s been diagnosed with PTSD and can no longer work, has filed a separate workers compensation claim with News Corp, and the company is paying her medical bills and lost wages. A News Corp spokeswoman declined to comment because News Corp was not named in the lawsuit. More