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Mexico Asks Court To Reject Ariz. Immigration Law
Posted on 23 Jun 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

PHOENIX - (AP) Mexico on Tuesday asked a federal court in Arizona to declare the state's new immigration law unconstitutional, arguing that the country's own interests and its citizens' rights are at stake. Lawyers for Mexico on Tuesday... Read More

Utah Supreme Court: Online Petition Signatures OK
Posted on 23 Jun 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

SALT LAKE CITY - (AP) The Utah Supreme Court said Tuesday that state election officials must accept online petition signatures to qualify individuals for the ballot. "A signature under (Utah law) does not require a signor to physically handle... Read More

Union Pacific Says EPA Destroyed Records It Wanted
Posted on 24 Jun 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

OMAHA, Neb. - (AP) Union Pacific Corp. asked a federal judge Wednesday to order the Environmental Protection Agency to stop destroying records the railroad requested about lead contamination in Omaha. The EPA and Union Pacific have been trying for... Read More

Ore. Trial Court To Reconsider $100M Tobacco Case
Posted on 25 Jun 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

PORTLAND, Ore. - (AP) The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that Philip Morris does not have to pay $100 million in punitive damages to the family of a smoker who sued the tobacco giant over its low-tar cigarettes. The case, however, is going to another... Read More

Judge Hands Google Victory In $1B Viacom Lawsuit
Posted on 24 Jun 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

SAN FRANCISCO - (AP) A federal judge handed Google Inc. a major victory Wednesday by rebuffing media company Viacom Inc.'s attempt to collect more than $1 billion in damages for the alleged copyright abuses of Google's popular YouTube service... Read More

NY Comptroller Wants Lead Status In BP Lawsuit
Posted on 24 Jun 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

ALBANY, N.Y. - (AP) New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has hired outside lawyers in an effort to become the lead plaintiff in a federal class-action lawsuit by investors against BP over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. DiNapoli, as trustee of the state's... Read More

Judge To Limit Expert Witnesses In Toyota Cases
Posted on 24 Jun 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

SANTA ANA, Calif. - (AP) A federal judge overseeing sprawling litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. indicated Wednesday he will not allow plaintiffs' attorneys to call expert witnesses who work for the carmaker's competitors. In tentative opinions... Read More

Judge Lifts Offshore Drilling Ban As `Overbearing'
Posted on 23 Jun 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW ORLEANS - (AP) A federal judge struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico as rash and heavy-handed Tuesday, saying the government simply assumed that because one rig exploded, the others... Read More

Vatican: Ky. Abuse Lawsuit Lacks Link To Rome
Posted on 25 Jun 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - (AP) The Vatican is asking a federal judge to reject an attempt to question Pope Benedict XVI under oath in a Kentucky sex abuse lawsuit on the grounds that there has been no evidence of a link to church officials in Rome. The arguments... Read More

$716M WTC Settlement For 1st Responders, Rubble Removal Workers Approved
Posted on 24 Jun 2010 by Bill G Lowe

NEW YORK - (Mealey's) U.S. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York on June 23, 2010 approved a $716 million settlement for first responders and workers who cleared the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center towers after... Read More

High Court Sides With Aussie Bank In Fraud Lawsuit
Posted on 25 Jun 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

WASHINGTON - (AP) The Supreme Court has put new limits on foreign investors who want to use U.S. securities law and U.S. courts to sue foreign firms for fraud. The court said Thursday that foreigners may not sue American or foreign firms for misconduct... Read More

Judge: UC Illegally Searched Journalist's Camera
Posted on 23 Jun 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

BERKELEY, Calif. - (AP) A judge has ruled that the University of California police illegally searched the camera of a photojournalist covering a protest outside the chancellor's campus home, attorneys said Monday. Alameda County Superior Judge... Read More

NY's Top Court Upholds Columbia U. Expansion Plan
Posted on 25 Jun 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

ALBANY, N.Y. - (AP) New York's top court has upheld a state redevelopment agency's use of eminent domain so Columbia University can expand its Ivy League campus over 17 acres in Manhattan's West Harlem neighborhood. The Court of Appeals... Read More

Group Will Sue Mcdonald's Over Happy Meal Toys
Posted on 23 Jun 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

WASHINGTON - (AP) Are the toys in your child's Happy Meal making him fat? The Center for Science in the Public Interest says they are. The Washington-based consumer advocacy group threatened to file a lawsuit against McDonald's Tuesday, charging... Read More

Judge Orders Mediation For Texas Rangers, Lenders
Posted on 25 Jun 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

FORT WORTH, Texas - (AP) A federal bankruptcy judge ordered the Texas Rangers and their angry creditors into mediation Thursday, pushing any resolution of the long-delayed sale dangerously close to a deadline that could be crucial to the team's playoff... Read More