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Calendar Draws Supreme Kibitzers
Some of the titans of the U.S. Supreme Court bar have privately asked Chief Justice William Rehnquist to consider overhauling the court's calendar to take into account its drastically reduced docket. The reason: the court's new lean, mean docket is shaving days and weeks off the time lawyers have to brief their cases and prepare for oral arguments. But the extraordinary and unpublicized effort by more than a dozen veteran Supreme Court advocates has been politely rejected by Rehnquist.Aereo and BarryDriller.com are facing lawsuits by broadcasters, including the Disney/ABC Television Group and Fox Broadcasting Company, that claim the streaming television services are violating U.S. copyright law.
High Court Zeroes In on Alleged Voting Rights Act Violations in Texas Redistricting Case
Supreme Court justices peppered attorneys with questions during Wednesday arguments over Texas' 2003 redistricting plan, which gave Republicans an advantage in the state's congressional delegation. Justices seemed more interested in whether the state Legislature violated the federal Voting Rights Act when it drew districts in South and West Texas and the Dallas area, and less interested in the partisan gerrymandering issue that some had seen as the reason why the Court agreed to hear the dispute.Start consoling your child now. Lady Gaga-inspired Bratz dolls, complete with a zombie outfit and a removable head that reveals a bloody stump, may not be on store shelves in time for Christmas.
A judge has ordered the billionaire media entrepreneur and Greek Coca-Cola bottling heir Alki David to stop calling his new online TV service BarryDriller.com, ruling that the name is misleadingly similar to that of another much bigger media mogul, Barry Diller.
Viewing the Corporate Office as a Crime Scene
Prior to the Enron scandals, typical investigations of a corporation were civil or regulatory in nature, and individual employees' actions were far less frequently the center of attention. But nowadays, when a corporation and its employees become the subjects of a governmental investigation, whether by the Justice Department, the SEC or other regulators, trained investigators will look at a company's office as a potential crime scene. Companies need to do likewise when refining their document policies.Trending Stories
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