January 30, 2010
The Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 decision that rolled back long-standing restrictions on corporate campaign finance donations has generated a lot of Sturm und Drang from proponents of campaign reform and the White House itself. At the crux of the decision was a determination that corporations have a right to free speech. The court ruled that limiting the amount that companies can spend promoting their favored candidates is tantamount to denying First Amendment rights.
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The sober, sprawling State of the Union address that President Obama delivered last week was marked by one extraordinary moment. It came when the president looked down at six robed members of the Supreme Court, seated directly in front of him, and criticized their recent 5 to 4 decision that he said “will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.”
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Gene Weingarten’s Jan. 24 Outlook commentary, “The police couldn’t hide their lying eyes,” provided a single anecdote about police dishonesty in a courtroom hearing a drug case. I would like to provide a counter-anecdote exemplifying the honesty of the Alexandria Police Department.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s decision on campaign finance has jumbled a seemingly simple rule of American politics - foreigners should play no role in U.S. elections.
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January 29, 2010
ROCK HILL, S.C., Jan. 29, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — 3D Systems Corporation (Nasdaq:TDSC), a leading provider of 3-D Printing, Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing parts and systems solutions, announced that the German Federal Supreme Court has issued a final decision revoking the German part of DSM Desotech’s European Patent No. 0 830 928. DSM had filed a complaint in Germany in 2005 claiming that 3D Systems’ Accura(r) BluestoneTM stereolithography material infringed this German patent. Following DSM’s appeal of prior decisions, the German Federal Supreme Court issued its decision invalidating this patent on January 28, 2010. As a result of this decision, a related 2005 decision that DSM obtained in an infringement action before the Frankfurt District Court should be dismissed based upon this complete revocation of DSM’s patent.
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January 28, 2010
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President Obama called out the Supreme Court. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. winced at the accusation and muttered, “Not true.” And then official Washington and the legal community went to the tape, and examined it frame by frame.
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A District man who told a jury in the fall that he shot a landscaper four times in the face because the worker had gotten grass on him was sentenced to 61 years in prison Thursday by a D.C. Superior Court judge.
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Sensing a clear political opportunity, congressional Democrats are rushing to craft legislation to counter a Supreme Court ruling that they fear could lead to a flood of foreign spending on U.S. elections.
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