Recent Updates
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Court declines to block drug ruling in patent case
Legal News Center 04/21/2014Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday declined to temporarily block a lower court ruling that opens the world's best-selling multiple sclerosis drug to competition from generic rivals next month. The decision is a victory for rivals chal...
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High court to hear dispute about TV over Internet
Headline News 04/21/2014Thirty years ago, big media companies failed to convince the Supreme Court of the threat posed by home video recordings. Now they're back — and trying to rein in a different innovation that they say threatens their financial well-being. The battle ha...
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GM to ask bankruptcy court for lawsuit protection
Class Action News 04/17/2014General Motors revealed in court filings late Tuesday that it will soon ask a federal bankruptcy judge to shield the company from legal claims for conduct that occurred before its 2009 bankruptcy. The automaker's strategy is in a motion filed in a Co...
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Oklahoma gay-marriage case before US appeals court
Legal News Feed 04/17/2014Court arguments over Oklahoma's ban on same-sex marriage will center on whether voters singled out gay people for unfair treatment when they overwhelmingly defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Judges at a federal appeals court i...
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India's top court recognizes third gender category
Headline News 04/15/2014India's top court on Tuesday issued a landmark verdict recognizing transgender rights as human rights, saying people can identify themselves as a third gender on official documents. The Supreme Court directed the federal and state governments to incl...
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SC Supreme Court hears appeal in fatal dog attack
Headline News 04/15/2014Prosecutors want South Carolina's highest court to reinstate the conviction of a Dillon County man whose dogs attacked and killed a 10-year-old boy in 2006. The state Supreme Court on Tuesday hears an appeal in the case of Bentley Collins. In 2012, t...
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Salvatore Scanio – Ludwig & Robinson PLLC.
Attorneys News 04/13/2014Salvatore Scanio, AttorneyMr. Scanio has extensive experience in complex domestic and international litigation and regulatory matters, involving federal and state banking, financial transactions, insurance coverage, and contract and other commercial ...
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Lawmaker Yee due back in court for arraignment
Headline News 04/08/2014Suspended state Sen. Leland Yee is due back in federal court for his alleged role in a San Francisco political corruption and organized crime case. Yee could enter pleas Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to traffic in firearms without a license and ...
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EU court nixes government bulk data collection
Headline News 04/08/2014The European Union's top court says key legislation allowing governments to collect data on citizens' communications for law-enforcement purposes is invalid. The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg on Tuesday ruled the so-called data retention di...
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U.S. Supreme Court voids overall contribution limits
Class Action News 04/03/2014The Supreme Court struck down limits today in federal law on the overall campaign contributions the biggest individual donors may make to candidates, political parties and political action committees. The justices said in a 5-4 vote that Americans ha...
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The Law Offices of Tenecia P. Reid, PLLC
Lawyer News 04/03/2014The Law Offices of Tenecia P. Reid, located in Northern Virginia and is here to provide you the best legal service to you and your loved one. With years of experience in divorce cases and family matters, Tenecia is both strategic and aggressive. We w...
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Appeals court sides with Alaska on roadless rule
Attorneys News 03/28/2014A divided federal appeals court panel on Wednesday sided with the state of Alaska in reversing a decision that reinstated prohibitions on road-building and the harvesting of timber in the nation's largest national forest. A three-judge panel of the 9...