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TODAY'S NEWS Collectors hound consumers for a million disputed debts per year, FTC study finds The Federal Trade Commission gets more complaints about debt collectors than any other industry, with consumers claiming that they're being hounded for debts they don't owe or for the wrong amount of money. SEC not liable for sleeping through Madoff fraud A federal appellate court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by two Southern California attorneys against the U.S. government for failing, through the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, to stop Ponzi scheme operator Bernard Madoff from bilking investors out of more than $60 billion. In milestone, group of gay-identified lawyers sworn in to Supreme Court bar A group of openly identified gay lawyers was sworn into the U.S. Supreme Court bar at a court session earlier this month, an apparent first. 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