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By Commentary by Amanda McGovern and Daniel Alvarez Sox | June 26, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of a trademark for The Slants means disparaging terms are worth defending, write attorneys Amanda McGovern and Daniel Alvarez Sox.
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By Greg Land | June 26, 2017
The 11th Circuit ruled the shooting, while intentional, constituted an accident under the wife's insurance policy because it was unforeseen to her.
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By Marcia Coyle | June 26, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday partially allowed President Donald Trump's executive order suspending immigration from six Muslim-majority nations and the U.S. refugee program to take effect and agreed to hear arguments on the order's legality in the fall.
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By Marcia Coyle | June 26, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived a Mexican family's attempt to hold a U.S. Border Patrol officer liable for the shooting death of their unarmed teenage son on foreign soil, and ordered reargument next term in two unrelated immigration cases. The justices, in an unsigned opinion in which three justices dissented for different reasons, vacated an appellate court ruling that had protected the border agent in the family's lawsuit.
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By Ross Todd | June 26, 2017
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with MLB and its lawyers at Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Monday, finding that Congress explicitly exempted minor league baseball from the federal antitrust law in the Curt Flood Act of 1998.
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By John Council | June 26, 2017
The Texas Supreme Court will decide this issue of whether a payday lender waived the civil litigation arbitration agreements it had with its customers by filing criminal charges against them and landing some of the borrowers in jail.
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By Erin Mulvaney | June 26, 2017
Fifty major companies, including Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and S&P Global Inc., urged a New York federal appeals court Monday to embrace sexual orientation protection under civil rights laws, arguing that discrimination against gay and lesbian workers "takes a heavy toll" on bottom lines.
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By Marcia Coyle | June 26, 2017
The final day of the U.S. Supreme Court term almost always brings some drama with it—a rumored or surprise retirement, a landmark decision. The focus on this Monday was on Justice Anthony Kennedy and whether the court would say something about President Donald Trump's travel ban.
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By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | June 26, 2017
Taxpayers supported by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Anti-Defamation League and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State have lost their challenge to a tuition tax credit for private and religious schools.
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By Marcia Coyle | June 26, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court, declining to step back into the contentious arena of gun regulation, refused on Monday to review the constitutionality of California's restrictions on the concealed and open carry of guns. Justice Clarence Thomas, with Neil Gorsuch, had urged the court to take up the challenge.
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