Defendants who offer a diminished capacity defense cannot seek to exclude rebuttal evidence from court-ordered mental evaluations on Fifth Amendment grounds, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.
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Read More »Defendants who offer a diminished capacity defense cannot seek to exclude rebuttal evidence from court-ordered mental evaluations on Fifth Amendment grounds, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.
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Read More »The U.S. Supreme Court asked the Obama administration for advice on a bid by thousands of Sept. 11 attack victims to sue Middle Eastern companies and people who allegedly provided crucial support to al-Qaeda.
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Read More »The case of Unite Here Local 355 v. Mulhall, No. 12-99, ended not with a decision impacting the way unions and employers — particularly those in the hospitality industry — deal with one another, but rather with a dismissal that leaves in place a circuit split.
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Read More »The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to use a case involving Fifth Third Bancorp to decide how easy it will be for workers to sue when their retirement plans lose money because of a drop in the employer’s stock price.
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Read More »The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court considered on Tuesday whether an award of contractual attorney fees is part of a final judgment, or a collateral determination made after a judgment
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Read More »At oral arguments Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court scrutinized the language of federal immigration statutes to determine whether a visa applicant’s child who ages out of automatic eligibility while waiting in the queue for available visas must go to the back of the line.
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Read More »U.S. Supreme Court justices hinted they might revive one of President Barack Obama’s biggest air- quality efforts, a rule that would curb emissions from coal- fired power plants in 28 states.
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Read More »Two of President Barack Obama’s top pollution-control measures face courtroom tests today.
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Read More »The U.S. Supreme Court left intact a $142 million award against Pfizer Inc. and let two similar suits go forward with claims that the drugmaker defrauded insurers by illegally marketing its Neurontin epilepsy drug.
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Read More »The case splintered a federal appeals court in a ruling that one judge said called hundreds of thousands of patents into question.
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Read More »The U.S. Supreme Court effectively told Amazon.com Inc. this week to become a tax collector.
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