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AUSTIN — America’s next great battle over civil rights could hardly have a less controversial flash point: the benign decision to move the neighborhood polling place from Jack Stueber’s garage to the local
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Justice Department lawyers concluded in an unpublished opinion earlier this year that the historic D.C. voting rights bill pending in Congress is unconstitutional, according to sources briefed on the issue. But Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who supports the measure, ordered up a second opinion from other lawyers in his department and determined that the legislation would pass muster.
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The Supreme Court dealt a blow to Philip Morris yesterday, ending the cigarette maker’s challenge of an award now worth more than $150 million to the widow of a longtime smoker.
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AUSTIN — America’s next great battle over civil rights could hardly have a less controversial flash point: the benign decision to move the neighborhood polling place from Jack Stueber’s garage to the local
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Justice Department lawyers concluded in an unpublished opinion earlier this year that the historic D.C. voting rights bill pending in Congress is unconstitutional, according to sources briefed on the issue. But Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who supports the measure, ordered up a second opinion from other lawyers in his department and determined that the legislation would pass muster.
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The Supreme Court dealt a blow to Philip Morris yesterday, ending the cigarette maker’s challenge of an award now worth more than $150 million to the widow of a longtime smoker.
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NEWARK, N.J. - The insurance brokerage antitrust multidistrict litigation judge on March 3 granted an insured’s motion to lift the stay of its case against Marsh USA Inc. regarding claims for the insurance broker’s illegal use of contingent commissions for the limited purpose of suggesting that the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transfer the case back to a Western federal court (In re Insurance Brokerage Antitrust Litigation, No. 04-4184; Cameron Offshore Boats Inc., et al. v. Marsh USA Inc., No. 05-05696, D. N.J.; 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17019).
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on March 2 granted certiorari in a long-running case about the copyrights associated with freelance contributions to written publications that are subsequently reproduced in electronic databases (Reed Elsevier Inc., et al. v. Irvin Muchnick, et al., No. 08-103, U.S. Sup.; See December 2007, Page 12).
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - An ad hoc committee on March 5 ordered that the stay of enforcement of an arbitration award given by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) will continue if the Argentine Republic places $75 million in an escrow account, which will be collectible by a natural gas distribution company in partial discharge of Argentina’s obligation under the award against it (Sempra Energy International v. Argentine Republic, No. ARB/02/16, ICSID; See October 2007, Page 15).
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MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Democrat Al Franken’s bid for a U.S. Senate seat received a boost from a Minnesota court opinion on Tuesday limiting the number of votes still to be counted, but his Republican rival promised to appeal.
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