Following his embittered battle against Gore in courtrooms throughout Florida and in the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court, Bush said he had a great deal for which he needed to give thanks.
Engelmayer served as a law clerk to the Honorable Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1988 to 1989 and as a law clerk to the Honorable Patricia Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1987 to 1988.
With the help of a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision they also put themselves a little further out of the reach of rapacious securities litigators.
In a matter of days the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case whose impact on innovation will be felt for decades to come.
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On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court considered a case that strikes at the core of corporate social responsibility, Kiobel v.
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EchoStar Communications (nasdaq: DISH - news - people ) lost another court skirmish this week when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider EchoStar's appeal of a lower court ruling that it cannot beam local broadcast channels to a nationwide audience.
Jamail's testimony was taken in 1999 but remained bottled up as the five tobacco lawyers-- Harold Nix , John O'Quinn , Wayne Reaud , Walter Umphrey and John Eddie Williams --fought to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep the records in the hands of a cooperative federal judge in Texarkana, Tex.
The Georgia ruling comes atop a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case involving a Connecticut case called Kelo versus the City of New London.
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Jesse Jackson said Sunday's event had a sense of urgency because the U.S. Supreme Court heard a request Wednesday by a mostly white Alabama county to strike down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act.
When the U.S. Supreme Court decides a case against Mazda Motor of America Inc. over a death allegedly caused by the lack of a shoulder strap in a minivan, it could put automakers on the hook for a wide range of state law claims that courts have long deemed preempted by federal regulation, experts say.
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That could spark a legal war among regulators, cable and broadcasters and may end up at the U.S. Supreme Court, which sometimes takes a dim view of federal statutes intended to curb indecency.
And as I noted recently, none less than the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court signed off on a quite expansive view of the Necessary and Proper Clause, the constitutional Swiss Army Knife that lets Congress do pretty much whatever it wants in the area of economic regulation.
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Last year, the game industry faced a harsh economy and increased scrutiny as the U.S. Supreme Court decided to formally consider the legality of a California law restricting the sales of violent video games.
He stood there -- again, he did not sound like someone standing before the U.S. Supreme Court to stand up for something that is a historic piece of law.
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Despite losing the national popular vote to Gore, Bush won the presidency after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that capped a contentious five weeks of legal battles and recounts.
In a ruling last week the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the argument of Matrixx Initiatives and is now allowing the lawsuit to proceed in a lower court.
The effectiveness of his leadership, however, will be determined by the U.S. Supreme Court as it considers a California ban on same-sex marriage.
In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment.
City of New London, wherein the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a city can condemn private land and hand it over to developers.
Still, not everyone is giving up on this, and the possibility of a U.S. Supreme Court case specifically on this issue, is possible.
Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay of execution, as did the state Supreme Court, while the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles similarly denied a request for clemency.
In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court found the idea of a legal right of same-sex couples to marry so outlandish that it dismissed a Minnesota case presenting the issue without bothering to write an opinion.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a pair of decisions issued today, bolstered the defenses of companies against being haled into a state court against their will.
She was referencing the group dynamics on a U.S. Supreme Court of nine justices who converse publicly during oral arguments and privately during conferences over cases.
The U.S. Supreme Court's stay Saturday of a Florida Supreme Court order to begin the hand count of disputed ballots could push a few electors to vote counter to their states' popular votes, he said.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a busy day of opinion releases, protected generic drug manufacturers from lawsuits while rejecting a Vermont law that was designed to make generics more widely prescribed.
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Its law school was constructing a replica of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Arthur Goldberg, of Northwestern, was a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
And with conservatives on the cusp of having a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, and the next president likely appointing three justices, evangelicals will hold their noses and eat their words.
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