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Teen Detained In Kuwait Sues U.S. Over No-Fly List
Posted on 18 Jan 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - (AP) Attorneys for a Virginia teenager have filed a federal lawsuit, claiming he was detained and tortured in Kuwait after being arbitrarily placed on the United States' no-fly list. Lawyers for Gulet Mohamed, 19, argued in their... Read More

Tags: Muslim , citizen , due process , Mohamed , Kuwait , Council on American-Islamic Relations , Abbas , no-fly list , Litigation , lawsuit

Constitutional Challenge To Insurance Requirement Of Health Care Reform Act Dismissed
Posted on 8 Oct 2010 by Cheryl Keely

DETROIT - (Mealey's) A Michigan federal judge on Oct. 7 dismissed a constitutional challenge to the health insurance mandate/federal income tax penalty of the Health Care Reform Act, saying Congress has a right to try to eliminate cost-shifting by... Read More

Tags: Commerce Clause , Thomas More Law Center , Equal Protection , health care , Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act , health insurance provision , due process , U.S. Constitution , Judge George Caram Steeh , Salina Hyder , Health Care Reform Act , Fifth Amendment , Obama , Jann DeMars , Litigation , Insurance , 10th Amendment , lawsuit , Thomas More Law Center v. Barack Hussein Obama , U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan , uninsured Americans , John Ceci , states' rights , Steven Hyder , Congress

Florida Supreme Court Upholds $2.5 Million Verdict In Engle Tobacco Case
Posted on 14 Mar 2013 by Michael Lefkowitz

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - (Mealey's) Florida's Supreme Court on March 14 affirmed, with one dissent, a trial court's application of its landmark decision in Engle v. Liggett Group, Inc. (945 So. 2d 1246 [Fla. 2006]) [ enhanced version available... Read More

Tags: Engle , Phillip Morris USA v. James L. Douglas , due process , 14th Amendment , Florida Supreme Court , smoking , R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Liggett Group LLC v. Finna Clay , Litigation , Engle v. Liggett Group , U.S. Supreme Court , verdict , res judicata , tobacco

U.S. Supreme Court Refuses To Take Up Due Process Challenge To EPA Orders
Posted on 7 Jun 2011 by Shane Dilworth

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on June 6 declined review of a District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling holding that the Environmental Protection Agency's use of unilateral administrative orders to enforce... Read More

Tags: Supreme Court , Lisa Jackson , Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act , due process , GE , Environmental Protection Agency , General Electric , PRP , potentially responsible party , unilateral administrative orders , Litigation , CERCLA , EPA , General Electric Co. v. Lisa Jackson , UAOs

High Court's Goodyear, McIntyre Rulings Limit Jurisdiction Over Foreign Manufacturers
Posted on 19 Jul 2011 by johnlwatkins

By John L. Watkins, Partner, Barnes & Thornburg LLP On June 27, 2011, the United States Supreme Court issued two decisions that limit the ability of U.S. courts to assert jurisdiction against foreign manufacturers if their contacts with... Read More

Tags: Supreme Court , Barnes & Thornburg , foreign companies , J. McIntyre Machinery , due process , John L. Watkins , personal jurisdiction , Litigation , Ltd. v. Nicastro , Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations Brown