Conviction of Reid Bundler Upheld, Next Stop: SCOTUS?
A prominent Nevada lobbyist convicted of making illegal contributions to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's 2010 re-election campaign is preparing to ask the Supreme Court to revisit campaign finance...
View ArticleDrug Disposal Ordinance: Supreme Court Writ Filed
On December 29, 2014, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America , the Biotechnology Industry Organization , and the Generic Pharmaceutical Association jointly filed a Petition for a Writ...
View ArticleCalifornia Insurance Law - 2014 Year in Review
The California appellate courts issued an unusual number and variety of insurance-related opinions in 2014. The California Supreme Court issued an important and highly anticipated ruling on the scope...
View ArticleXerox Employee's Ex Loses Beneficiary Status
All it took was a phone call for a Xerox employee to change the beneficiary of his retirement plan from his ex-wife to his son, the 9th Circuit ruled Wednesday, reversing an award to the ex-wife. Asa...
View ArticleIn Rare Trademark Decision, Supreme Court Rules That "Tacking" Is A Jury Issue
On January 21, 2015, in its first substantive trademark case in over 10 years, the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously held that when a trademark owner attempts to establish priority based on an earlier...
View ArticleRomano: GOP Education On A "Free And Open Internet"
"Last year the administration announced it wants to give up oversight of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority contract. If this transition is...
View ArticleUpdated: Akron school board member Dave Lombardi is Summit County GOP's top...
The county party's executive committee met Wednesday evening to recommend three candidates to submit to Gov. John Kasich to fill the opening left by Akron Municipal Court Judge Julie Schafer's election...
View ArticleNinth Circuit Court to hear two AZ cases at U of A
TUCSON, AZ - Today the Ninth Circuit will be hearing two Arizona cases, and the public is invited to attend. The event is free and open to the public, and offers a chance for the public to get a look...
View ArticleFederal Appeals Judge Arthur Alarcon Dies in Los Angeles
Arthur L. Alarcon, who was the first Latino appointed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has died. He was 89. Alarcon was a judge for more than 50 years on state and federal courts.
View ArticleMust Police Officers Accomodate Mentally Ill Arrestees?
Twenty-five years after the act's passage, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether it applies to police officers arresting a mentally ill suspect who is armed and violent. In City & County of...
View ArticleShell plans to return to Chukchi Sea drilling
The circuit court reversed a decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska in favor of the agency and sent the case back to the district court for further proceedings consistent with...
View ArticleIRS Must Answer for Levy on Nevada 10-Year-Old
After taking $13,000 from a 10-year-old boy, the Internal Revenue Service cannot claim that he waited too long to sue, the 9th Circuit ruled Friday. Logan Volpicelli says he was 10 when the IRS...
View ArticleBill to Restore Second Amendment to Corps Land Introduced
Idaho Senator Mike Crapo has introduced legislation to remove federal infringments on second amendment rights from lands controlled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers . From the press release: The...
View ArticleLet There Be Discounts! Copyrights Cannot Be Used To Control Importation Or...
Who does not like a good discount? Well, manufacturers, like Omega, for one. Fortunately for consumers, in Omega S.A. v.
View ArticleArizona Tried To Keep KRS-One Out Of Classrooms, So He Went There Himself
The American rapper KRS-One pictured giving the hip-hop fans a lecture of rap at the German outdoor festival Splash Festival 2013. Germany 2013..
View ArticleBaylen Linnekin: Supreme Court Gets Another Chance to Kill Crazy Raisin...
Last week the Supreme Court announced it would revisit the important case of Horne v. USDA .
View ArticleMedical pot in Oakland: Appeals court weighs fate of 'superstore'
Even with dozens of states such as California now allowing the sale of medical marijuana and a handful of others legalizing weed altogether, Oakland's Harborside Health Center, the nation's largest...
View ArticleU.S. judges see 'epidemic' of prosecutorial misconduct in state bar
Federal judges called upon state Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris to respond to reports of a pattern of prosecutorial misconduct going undisciplined in state courts.
View ArticleABA to hold first midyear meeting in Houston since 1981
On July 2, 1964, during a live broadcast from the East Room of the White House, President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act. AP Photo Recent incidents in which black men died during...
View ArticleBail for Immigrants
Another controversial Arizona immigration policy has been struck down. In October, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that denying bail to illegal immigrants charged with Class 4 felonies was...
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