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WASHINGTON - The long-running legal fight over whether former Playmate Anna Nicole Smith should have gotten part of the fortune left behind by her elderly Texas billionaire husband landed at the Supreme Court on Tuesday as justices announced new cases to be argued in the upcoming 2010 term.

AUSTIN, Texas - Former Lance Armstrong teammate Floyd Landis has filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit, The Wall Street Journal is reporting.

DALLAS - Gay couples legally married in other states cannot get a divorce in Texas, where same-sex marriage is banned, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

HOUSTON - Lawyers for R. Allen Stanford say the Texas financier did not take out $1.7 billion in deposits made to his now defunct Caribbean bank and use them for loans to himself.

DALLAS - American Airlines has agreed to pay $5 million and provide evidence against other airlines to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by freight shippers who were victims of a price-fixing cartel.
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