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Four Votes for the Ten Commandments?
The U.S. Supreme Court convenes in a closed conference Sept. 27 to consider more than 1,900 new cases that have piled up on its doorsteps over the summer. Leading the list that might be granted review are several First Amendment establishment clause disputes involving the religious rights of prison inmates and Ten Commandments displays on public property?Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway chipped away at their significant antitrust exposure on Tuesday, fending off a lawsuit brought by the mining company Oxbow Carbon & Minerals.
When we first heard that Juniper Network's lawyers had moved to transfer a patent infringement suit brought against Juniper by GraphOn from Virginia to Texas, we wondered if they were crazy. Then we found out about the elaborate game of venue hopscotch they're playing. Crazy like a fox, maybe.
Georgia Law School One Step Closer to Accreditation
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School has cleared a major hurdle in its long effort to win accreditation from the American Bar Association. The school's pass rate for first-time takers of the July bar exam was 81 percent for the school's 16 new graduates, who are the first products of Dean John E. Ryan's three-year tenure. The school's overall first-time pass rate was 72 percent.Why should Andrew Cuomo have all the fun? On Tuesday, California attorney general Jerry Brown lashed out at another bank, accusing State Street of defrauding two large pension funds in a $200 million qui tam suit.
We've all heard how financial regulators ignored Harry Markopolos's warnings until Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme finally collapsed under its own weight. But until Tuesday, when federal and state prosecutors in Manhattan filed suits accusing Bank of New York Mellon of gouging banks and pension funds out of billions of dollars, we'd forgotten about another apparent Markopolos project: whistleblower litigation against BoNY and State Street Corp. over the way they handle foreign exchange trades.
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