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U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Wednesday ordered two Jan. 6 defendants pardoned by President Donald Trump to be refunded in full for restitution payments made and fines incurred as part of their earlier criminal cases. It was a reversal from just months earlier, when the same judge rejected their bid for repayment. Boasberg used a memo order Wednesday to outline the fairly complex case history for Cynthia Ballenger and her husband, Christopher Price, both of whom had been tried and convicted on misdemeanor charges in connection with events of Jan. 6, 2021, and ordered to pay hundreds of dollars...

RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of an American Muslim civil rights group's defamation lawsuit against former U.S. Rep. Cass Ballenger, who linked the group to terrorists in a 2003 interview. The Council on American-Islamic Relations sued Ballenger for $2 million, saying the congressman's comments damaged its reputation and good name. The group has denied any links to terrorism. In the October 2003 interview with The Charlotte Observer, Ballenger blamed the breakup of his 50-year marriage partly on the stress of living near CAIR's headquarters, which was so close to the U.S. Capitol that...

Muslim Group Sues Congressman for Defamation 12/3/03 11:25:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Arsalan Iftikhar, 202-488-8787, 202-415-0799; Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726, cair@cair-net.org; or Rabiah Ahmed, 202-488-8787 or 202-439-1441, rahmed@cair-net.org, all of CAIR WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights organization today announced that it has filed a defamation lawsuit against a congressman from North Carolina who falsely claimed the group is "the fund-raising arm for Hezbollah." The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed the lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in response to an October 2003...