NOV
8
2018

Eyeing conservative U.S. top court, two states pass abortion measures

Voters in Alabama and West Virginia on Tuesday passed ballot measures that could pave the way for new limits or a full ban on abortion in those states if the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court overturns the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion.

NOV
7
2018

Judges named to hear government´s appeal of AT&T Time Warner deal approval

A panel of three federal appeals court judges named by former Presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama will hear the Justice Department’s appeal of a ruling allowing AT&T Inc to acquire Time Warner, court records show.

NOV
7
2018

Trump turns to Supreme Court to wind down ´Dreamer´ immigration program

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to allow it to end a program introduced by former President Barack Obama that protects thousands of young immigrants who live in the United States without legal status.

NOV
7
2018

German prosecutors search BlackRock in dividend-stripping inquiry: source

Prosecutors searched the Munich offices of BlackRock (BLK.N) on Tuesday, a person with knowledge of the matter said, as part of the country’s largest post-war fraud investigation.

NOV
7
2018

Democrats Capture House Control as Republicans Hold Senate: US

Trump endorsees have mixed results on midterm battlefield

NOV
7
2018

EU approves Disney buy from Fox if makes TV divestments

Walt Disney’s (DIS.N) $71.3-billion offer to buy Twenty-First Century Fox Inc’s (FOXA.O) entertainment assets won approval from the European Commission on Tuesday, subject to Disney selling interests in factual TV channels in Europe.

NOV
7
2018

The heirs of deceased workers have the right to collect their vacations not enjoyed : Germany

The heirs of a deceased worker are entitled to receive financial compensation from employers on account of vacations not enjoyed by the deceased. This has been ruled by the Court of Justice of the EU in response to a German court in the case of two widows who claimed the employers of their deceased husbands for the part of their vacations not enjoyed.

NOV
6
2018

Justices revisit Spokeo standing at oral arguments over cy pres settlements

A funny thing happened on the way to a U.S. Supreme Court determination of the propriety of paying charities instead of class members in so-called cy pres class action settlements

NOV
6
2018

Canada top court rules against Churchill Falls Corp. in dispute over energy deal

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 7-1 on Friday that two Canadian electric companies, Hydro-Quebec and Churchill Falls Corporation, had no obligation to renegotiate a contract from 1969.

NOV
6
2018

Bayer CEO says would consider glyphosate settlement depending on costs

Bayer AG’s chief executive said this week the company might consider settling lawsuits over Monsanto’s glyphosate-containing weed-killers depending on how high court costs rise, but stressed it remained focused on defending the combined company against claims they cause cancer.

NOV
6
2018

U.S. SEC collects nearly $4 billion in fines, disgorgement in fiscal 2018

The Securities and Exchange Commission assessed $3.945 billion in disgorgement and penalties across 821 enforcement actions in fiscal 2018, the agency’s enforcement division said in its annual report on Friday.

NOV
6
2018

U.S. Supreme Court ends fight over Obama-era net neutrality rules

The legal fight over a 2016 lower court ruling upholding Obama-era net neutrality regulations aimed at ensuring a free and open internet - rules that have since been repealed by President Donald Trump’s administration - came to a formal end on Monday, with the U.S. Supreme Court declining to take up the matter.

NOV
6
2018

Judge rejects Native American challenge to North Dakota voter law

Chief Judge Daniel Hovland of the US District Court for the District of North Dakota on Thursday rejected a request by Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe to prevent the enforcement of a voter address rule requiring a residential street address in order to vote.

NOV
6
2018

Federal judge blocks Georgia ‘exact match’ voter ID law : USA

A federal judge ruled Friday that the “exact match” requirement for voter identification in Georgia will not apply to Tuesday’s midterm election as it “places a severe burden” on prospective votes.

NOV
6
2018

Federal court overturns California law that limited transfer of federal lands

The US District Court for the Eastern District of California declared California’s SB 50 to be unconstitutional on Thursday because it regulated the federal government’s right to sell federal property in violation of intergovernmental immunity.

NOV
5
2018

Japan’s Cabinet approves bill to introduce new visa categories for foreign workers

Justice Minister Takashi Yamashita told the same committee that the government does not plan to cap the number of workers to be admite.

NOV
5
2018

Mitsubishi Materials near to finalizing compensation fund for wartime forced labor in China: Japan

The fund represents the final hurdle in a settlement that the Japanese company reached with the main groups of Chinese claimants

NOV
5
2018

Supreme Court to decide if War Memorial Cross violates First Amendment: US

The original 2012 case argued that the use of religious imagery in a monument maintained by a local government violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment,

NOV
5
2018

Harvard defends admission policy as Asian-American bias trial ends: US

Harvard’s lawyers conceded that Asian-Americans indeed had on average received lower personal rating scores in recent years

NOV
5
2018

Trump Orders Sanctions on Venezuela Gold to Pressure Maduro

President Donald Trump signed an executive order authorizing new sanctions on Venezuela’s gold sector, in a bid to disrupt trade with Turkey that U.S. officials fear is undermining efforts to pressure the South American nation’s president, Nicolas Maduro.

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