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  • CA court to mull expiration date for clergy abuse

    CA court to mull expiration date for clergy abuse

    U.S. Court News 01/05/2012

    California's highest court is hearing a precedent-setting case that could expose California's Roman Catholic dioceses to another round of clergy abuse lawsuits. The case being argued Thursday before the California Supreme Court involves six brothers ...

  • Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP Announces Class Action Lawsuit

    Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP Announces Class Action Lawsuit

    Recent Cases 01/04/2012

    The action alleges that the Company and its executives violated federal securities laws by failing to disclose that: (1) China Med’s acquisition of Bio-Ekon Biotechnology Co. Ltd. was from a third-party seller connected to the Company’s own chairman;...

  • Ecuador court upholds ruling against Chevron

    Ecuador court upholds ruling against Chevron

    U.S. Court News 01/04/2012

    An appeals court in Ecuador upheld an $18 billion ruling against Chevron Corp. on Tuesday for oil pollution in the Amazon rain forest more than two decades ago. The ruling confirmed a February judgment in the case. The Ecuadorean plaintiffs said in a...

  • Court delays border-crossing pollution rule

    Court delays border-crossing pollution rule

    Recent Cases 01/03/2012

    A federal court Friday put on hold a controversial Obama administration regulation aimed at reducing power plant pollution in 27 states that contributes to unhealthy air downwind. More than a dozen electric power companies, municipal power plant oper...

  • Chief justice defends court's impartiality

    Chief justice defends court's impartiality

    Recent Cases 01/02/2012

    Chief Justice John Roberts said Saturday that he has "complete confidence" in his colleagues' ability to step away from cases where their personal interests are at stake, and noted that judges should not be swayed by "partisan demands." The comment, ...

  • MT court restores corporate campaign spending ban

    MT court restores corporate campaign spending ban

    U.S. Court News 01/02/2012

    The Montana Supreme Court restored the state's century-old ban on direct spending by corporations on political candidates or committees in a ruling Friday that interest groups say bucks a high profile U.S. Supreme Court decision granting political sp...

  • Court delays border-crossing pollution rule

    Court delays border-crossing pollution rule

    Recent Cases 01/01/2012

    A federal court Friday put on hold a controversial Obama administration regulation aimed at reducing power plant pollution in 27 states that contributes to unhealthy air downwind. More than a dozen electric power companies, municipal power plant oper...

  • Court OKs immunity for telecoms in wiretap case

    Court OKs immunity for telecoms in wiretap case

    Recent Cases 12/31/2011

    A federal appeals court has ruled as constitutional a law giving telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the government with its email and telephone eavesdropping program. Thursday's unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th ...

  • Calif officials seek redevelopment compromise

    Calif officials seek redevelopment compromise

    U.S. Court News 12/30/2011

    The California Supreme Court on Thursday gave Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers the right to eliminate community redevelopment agencies in a crucial victory on the state budget. But the fate of the more than 400 redevelopment agencies remains uncl...

  • Supreme Court gay privacy case victor dead at 68

    Supreme Court gay privacy case victor dead at 68

    Recent Cases 12/28/2011

    The Texas man whose case led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that granted privacy rights to gay men and lesbians has died at age 68. John G. Lawrence died in Houston on Nov. 20, according to Sarah Wilson of R.S. Farmer Funeral Home in Silsbee...

  • Supreme Court rejects Hessler appeal

    Supreme Court rejects Hessler appeal

    Recent Cases 12/26/2011

    The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday rejected a death-row inmate’s claim that his lawyer failed to properly represent the convicted kidnapper, rapist and murderer at his sentencing. Jeffrey Hessler had argued that his trial-court lawyer should have d...

  • France ponders removing risky breast implants

    France ponders removing risky breast implants

    Recent Cases 12/22/2011

    Emmanuelle Maria's breasts were burning and globules of silicone gel were protruding into her armpits. Her implants had exploded inside her. Yet her doctors, she says, told her nothing was wrong. Now, she wants the French government to tell 30,000 wo...

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