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35 Votes
Jurors banned from blogging about criminal cases
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The Florida Supreme Court has issued an opinion that states that trial judges must tell jurors not to use electronic devices or computers to talk about cases, "including tweeting, texting, blogging, emailing, posting information on a website or chat room, or any other means at all."
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29 Votes
Federal Circuit Will Hear Judges' Back-Pay Challenge
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A group of federal judges who charge that Congress violated the Constitution by withholding pay increases will get a hearing before the full Federal Circuit. The six judges seek to overturn a 2001 decision that future judicial salary adjustments by the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 are not "compensation" protected from diminishment.
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28 Votes
Second Circuit Rebuffs Madoff Feeder Fund Investor Trying to Sue PWC
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An investor who lost $60 million in the Madoff feeder fund Greenwich Sentry continues to be thwarted in his effort to sue the fund's auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers. On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a ruling that G. Philip Stephenson couldn't pursue his malpractice and fraud claims.
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37 Votes
Yankees Score Multi-Million-Dollar Home Run in Federal Circuit
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed on Friday a $159.6 million damages award to nuclear utilities Yankee Atomic Electric Co., Maine Yankee Atomic Power Co. and Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co. in the long-running spent nuclear fuel battle with the federal government.
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37 Votes
New Law Takes Canadian Spam Off the Marketing Menu
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If you think your company doesn't send spam, you may want to double-check. A Canadian anti-spam law with global reach is poised to cast a wide net for offending communications. Given the hefty fines and class action potential, the new law is sure to prompt tough conversations between in-house counsel and company marketing departments.
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34 Votes
Release of Report Would Reveal Intelligence Methods, Judge Rules
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Exemptions under the federal Freedom of Information Act allow the executive branch to withhold a classified report detailing the scope of a surveillance provision of the USA Patriot Act, a federal judge ruled Thursday, granting summary judgment to the government in a case brought by The New York Times and partial summary judgment in a case brought by the ACLU.
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37 Votes
Judge Orders Syria and Iran to Pay $332M in State-Sponsored Terrorism Case
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In what one attorney calls the first judgment of its kind, a Washington federal judge has ordered Iran and Syria to pay $332 million for their role in a 2006 suicide attack in Israel that killed 11 people. The judge found that the countries were liable under the state-sponsored terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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37 Votes
Judge Allows EEOC Disability Discrimination Suit to Move Forward
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A federal judge in Illinois has handed the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission a much-needed win, ruling that a disability discrimination suit may go forward even though the agency did not individually investigate and attempt to settle every class member's claim before filing suit.
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