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High court sides with Samsung in patent dispute with Apple
Intellectual Property 01/09/2017The Supreme Court unanimously sided with smartphone maker Samsung on Tuesday in its high-profile patent dispute with Apple over design of the iPhone. The justices said Samsung may not be required to pay all the profits it earned from 11 phone models ...
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Texas affirmative action plan survives Supreme Court review
Immigration Law 01/09/2017The University of Texas admissions program that takes account of race has survived another round at the Supreme Court. The justices on Thursday upheld the Texas program by a 4-3 vote. The university considers race among many factors in admitti...
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Court: Asylum not automatic for former gang members
Immigration Law 01/09/2017Immigrants in the United States illegally are not automatically eligible for asylum on the basis that they are former gang members who risk persecution if they return home, a federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday. Three judges from the 9th U.S....
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South Korean executives jailed for humidifier cleaner deaths
Consumer Rights 01/09/2017A South Korean court sentenced the former head of Oxy Reckitt Benckiser to seven years in prison Friday after the company's disinfectant for humidifiers killed scores of people and left hundreds with permanent lung damage. The Seoul Central District ...
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Ohio's high court dismisses media lawsuit over bodycam video
Breaking Legal News 01/04/2017The Ohio Supreme Court dismissed a public information lawsuit Tuesday without ruling on its argument that video from police body cameras are public record and should be released on request. In not taking up the issue, the court noted that the video h...
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Court: Star Chinese investor pleads guilty in stock case
Corporate Governance 12/23/2016A Chinese court says a star securities trader who was arrested following last year's stock market collapse has pleaded guilty to insider trading and manipulating share prices. The court in the eastern city of Qingdao said in a statement Tuesday that ...
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US Supreme Court could hear Charleston company, Lexmark case
Intellectual Property 12/13/2016A small Charleston company that refills and resells empty toner cartridges could soon be defending itself before the U.S. Supreme Court in a dispute that could affect huge tech companies and pharmaceutical firms. Lexmark, a Lexington, Kentucky-based ...
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Man who fired shots in DC pizza parlor expected in court
Personal Injury 12/09/2016Family members noticed a change in the man charged with firing an assault rifle in a Washington pizza parlor after he hit a 13-year-old pedestrian with his car in October, his parents said. Edgar Maddison Welch shifted from energetic and outgoing to ...
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Robyn Brody wins Idaho Supreme Court seat
Attorneys in the News 11/23/2016Twin Falls attorney Robyn Brody saw victory in a close statewide race by securing a seat on the Idaho Supreme Court in Tuesday's election. Brody beat Republican Sen. Curt McKenzie in Tuesday's election. It was the state's first high court runoff elec...
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Federal court: No back pay for ex-central Indiana marshal
Tax Law 10/24/2016An Indiana federal court has ruled against a former central Indiana marshal who is seeking back pay from the town of Summitville. The (Anderson) Herald Bulletin reports the federal court in southern Indiana ruled state minimum wage law says former Su...
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Supreme Court won't hear challenge to FBI fitness test
Practice Focuses 10/23/2016The Supreme Court won't hear a dispute over whether a physical fitness test for FBI special agents is biased against men. The justices on Monday turned down an appeal from an Illinois man who failed the test after completing 29 out of 30 untimed push...
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Court grants full parental rights to unmarried gay woman
Family Law 10/23/2016The same court that paved the way for same-sex marriage in the United States ruled Tuesday that an unmarried gay woman whose former girlfriend gave birth to two children through artificial insemination has the same parental rights as their biological...