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Vest, shirt, badge - check. Pants, boots, gun belt - check. About 800 Phoenix police officers and up to 400 Mesa officers believe changing into and out of their uniforms each day is doing work, so they've sued in federal court to be paid for their time. U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake ruled in April that the Mesa Police Association shouldn't receive any money, according to court records, but the union has recently appealed the ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The lawsuit has cost Mesa more than $187,600 to fight so far, according to public...

A French court ruling has given domestic jet makers hope that their planes will once again grace the skies of foreign air shows -- without threat of seizure. Two years ago, a court in the Paris suburb of Bobigny, near le Bourget, home to the Paris Air Show, issued an injunction for the seizure of a MiG and a Sukhoi fighter as part of ongoing efforts by Swiss company Noga to retrieve $60 million it says it is owed by the Russian government from oil-for-food deliveries in the early 1990s. But on Wednesday, the court in Bobigny ruled that the...