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Photo courtesy of wikipedia.comWell folks, it’s Civil War week! There is a ton of good will around the country directed towards the Beavers. Our guys and their run to Rose Bowl has garnered a good bit of attention. Governor Kulongoski who attended University of Missouri has declared his allegiances:Gov. Ted Kulongoski tipped [...]

Moscow - Prosecutors called for the dismissal of the judge in the trial of three men for the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Russian news agencies reported Tuesday. Evgeny Zubov, the presiding judge at a Moscow Military Court, ...

The family of a prominent Washington lawyer who was stabbed to death in 2006 filed a $20 million lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court today, charging three men with causing his 'wrongful death.'

Copenhagen - The Danish Supreme Court was set to try the convictions of six people sentenced for supporting terrorist groups by selling T-shirts, an appeals board said Tuesday. The Eastern High Court in September sentenced two persons to six- month j...

SINGAPORE -- Singapore's High Court ruled the Wall Street Journal Asia in contempt of court for publishing two editorials and a letter to the editor that the government says damaged the reputation of the country's judicial system.

The wide-ranging discretion in federal sentencing given to district judges by the U.S. Supreme Court allows a tougher prison term to a gun offender in New York City than in other parts of the country in part because of the unique problems guns pose in urban areas and the city's efforts to stem handgun violence, the 2nd Circuit has ruled. The court also used its opinion to expand on the degree of discretion given trial judges and the approach the circuit takes in reviewing sentences for reasonableness.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a recent case of firstimpression, considered whether a securities fraud complaint brought byforeign plaintiffs against foreign issuers based on foreign stockpurchases -- a set of circumstances sometimes dubbed a 'foreign-cubedsecurities case' -- could be heard by a U.S. federal court. The answerprovided by the 2nd Circuit: under the right circumstances, yes.Chadbourne & Parke's Douglas R. Jensen analyzes the ruling.

In the 30th anniversary year of the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the 'second generation of pregnancy discrimination' has arrived at the U.S. Supreme Court, say some civil rights and women's rights lawyers The four women at the center of AT&T v. Hulteen entered the work force and took maternity leaves before the PDA was enacted. The case, which will be argued on Dec. 10, could affect thousands of female workers, retired or about to retire, as well as company pension plans.

After years of motion practice and a five-week trial, a federal jury in San Francisco took roughly two days to exonerate Chevron Corp. for a decade-old bloody debacle in Nigeria. Villagers-turned-plaintiffs came away completely empty-handed Monday as the seven-man, two-woman jury denied all of their claims, including those for torture and wrongful death. The case was one of the first brought in an american court under the Alien Tort Claims Act.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed Monday that Qualcomm should be punished for what has in other cases been called a 'patent ambush' -- not disclosing patents to a standards-setting body and then suing adopters of the standard. In this case, Qualcomm's target was Broadcom. Patent and antitrust law observers called the opinion one of only a few in the area of standards-setting organizations and said it helps clarify legal behavior in that murky area.