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Installing solar panels on a residential roof in San Diego. REUTERS/Mike Blake (Reuters) - California nonprofit Vote Solar and several owners of solar arrays in Farmington, New Mexico, can challenge the city utility’s “standby fees” on alternative energy systems in federal court, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Monday. The 10th Circuit said a federal judge in Albuquerque erred in ruling that he lacked jurisdiction because the challengers and their lawyers at Earthjustice had alleged only that the fees were “inconsistent” with an antidiscrimination rule ado...

Arthur Perrault, a former Roman Catholic priest, argued that the federal court erred by allowing other victims to testify. (CN) — The 10th Circuit upheld a federal grand jury’s conviction of a former priest on seven counts of sexual abuse against a 10-year-old boy dating back to the 90s. Arthur Perrault, a former Roman Catholic priest who served at several parishes in Albuquerque, New Mexico, fled the country in 1992 to Canada and then Morocco after learning of a local reporter’s investigation into allegations that Perrault sexually abused young boys. “After a two-week sojourn in Cana...