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24 min ago | WBAY-TV Green Bay

Wis. appeals judge will run for election

A former legislator says he'll run to retain his seat as a Wisconsin appeals court judge in next spring's election.

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Related Topix: Jim Doyle, US Governors, US News

2 hrs ago | NOLA.com

Appeals court upholds decision to give former Tulane football player new trial in Bourbon Street stabbings

An appellate court panel has upheld a recent decision to grant a new trial to a former Tulane University football player who had been convicted of knifing four people on Bourbon Street in 2007.

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Related Topix: Tulane University, US News, Criminal Defense Law, Law, University of Houston, Life, Self Defense

Wed Jun 19, 2013

WWL-TV New Orleans

Appeals court says LSU owes another $5 million over imploded building

LSU paid less than half of what it should have when it expropriated the old Claiborne Towers property at Canal Street and Claiborne Avenue and demolished the historic hotel and apartment building as a part of the big LSU-VA medical center project, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.

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Related Topix: US News

Daily Record

Opinions - 6/20/13: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Administrative Law Injunction against reduction of services BOTTOM LINE: Where the state's health department chose to comply with a preliminary injunction requiring it to provide a hearing before terminating Medicaid benefits to the plaintiffs, the state subdivision that managed delivery of those services was barred from appealing the ruling both ... (more)

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Related Topix: US News, Healthcare Law, Law, Opinion

Ballot Access News

Virginia Does Not Ask for Rehearing en Banc, in Case over Petitioner Residency

As previously reported, on May 29, the Fourth Circuit struck down Virginia's law banning out-of-state circulators.

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Related Topix: US News

Business Journal

N.C. dental board ruling could restrict powers of licensing boards

Those in organized medicine say a recent ruling against the N.C. Board of Dental Examiners could limit the power of state licensing boards to regulate the practice of medicine.

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Related Topix: Dentistry, Medicine, US News

Tue Jun 18, 2013

JD Supra

FTC: Dentists Not Shielded From Teeth-Whitening Competition

In a ruling that may impact how professionals attempt to limit competition from alternative providers, the North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners failed to convince the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that the Board's successful effort to "expel non-dentist providers from the North Carolina teeth-whitening market" is immune ... (more)

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Related Topix: Dentistry, Medicine, US News

Mon Jun 17, 2013

South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Driver records protected from use by lawyers

The Supreme Court says lawyers may not obtain personal information from state driver license records to recruit clients for lawsuits.

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Related Topix: US News, Anthony Kennedy

The American Prospect

The Fourth Circuit's NLRB Smackdown

But depending on whom you ask, the future of labor, the First Amendment, and freedom from state interference are at stake.

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Related Topix: US News, District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

Sun Jun 16, 2013

RedState

Out of Bounds: Another Court Smack's Obama NLRB's Overreach On Union Rights Posters

In 2010, when Barack Obama's constitutionally-challenged National Labor Relations Board began proposing an edict to force private-sector, union-free employers to post so-called Union Rights posters.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Wisconsin Gazette

Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear domestic partner registry case

The registry grants same-sex couples a handful of basic legal rights. But members of the fundamentalist Christian and pro-corporate group Wisconsin Family Action filed a lawsuit in 2010 alleging that the registry violates a 2006 state constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage or anything substantially similar.

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Related Topix: Wisconsin Government, Wisconsin, Gay/Lesbian, Wedding, US News, Jim Doyle, US Governors

jdsupra.com

Court Dismisses Foreign Banks from U.S. Lawsuit Alleging Complicity...

The fight against sophisticated online schemes to sell counterfeit or otherwise illegal goods is being waged by increasingly focused efforts to identify responsible parties that may be sued in U.S. courts, and whose assets are at risk.

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Related Topix: Prison, US News, Internet, Science / Technology

JD Supra

Fourth Circuit & FTC: State Dental Board Subject to Federal Antitrust Laws in Teeth-Whitening Case

The health care industry is familiar with the FTC's enforcement presence for anticompetitive business practices in health care markets.

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Related Topix: US News, Dentistry

Fri Jun 14, 2013

Post and Courier

Another appeals court strikes down union poster rule

A second federal appeals court has struck down a rule that would have required millions of U.S. businesses to put up posters informing workers of their right to form a union.

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Related Topix: US News, District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

NBC26

June 14, 2013 4:46 p.m. State Supreme Court to Hear Collective Barganing Case

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit brought by two unions challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Scott Walker's law effectively ending collective bargaining for most public workers.

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Related Topix: Scott Walker, US Governors, US News

WOZZ-FM Appleton

WI Supreme Court to hear challenges to Act 10, Dom...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed late Friday afternoon to rule on whether the Act 10 public union bargaining limits apply to local government and school unions.

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Related Topix: US News, Madison, WI, Dane County, WI

Lake Wylie Pilot

2nd appeals court strikes down union poster rule

A second federal appeals court has struck down a rule that would have required millions of businesses to put up posters informing workers of their right to form a union.

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Related Topix: US News

Thu Jun 13, 2013

South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Criminal Practice a " No Due Process Claim from Contraband Cigarette Sting

U.S. v. Hasan The sale of untaxed cigarettes by government agents during a two-year investigation of trafficking in contraband cigarettes was not so "outrageous" and "shocking" as to violate defendant's right to due process, and the 4th Circuit affirms his convictions under 18 U.S.C. A 371 and A 2342 .

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Related Topix: US News, Transportation, Railroads, CSX Transportation, Marketing

Wed Jun 12, 2013

JD Supra

Fourth Circuit Holds State Agencies Operated by Market Participants...

On May 31, 2013, the Fourth Circuit issued an opinion upholding the Federal Trade Commission's determination that the North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners illegally expelled non-dentists from the teeth whitening market in North Carolina.

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Related Topix: US News, Dentistry, Medicine

Daily Record

Opinions - 6/13/13: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Civil Procedure Standing BOTTOM LINE: By electing to conduct their restaurant business through a limited liability company and thereby receive protection of their personal assets from liability, restaurant principals gave up their standing to claim damages to the LLC, even if they also suffered personal damages as a result.

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Related Topix: US News, Opinion