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5th Circ. Revives Oil Rig Worker’s Negligence Claim
Published: 8/02/2019The Fifth Circuit revived an offshore drilling technician’s claim that the injuries he suffered after slipping and falling on an offshore oil rig deck covered in a slippery fluid could have been cause ... Read moreSource: www.law360.com -
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'Blended' OT System Doesn't Fly Under FLSA, 4th Circ. Says
Published: 8/02/2019The Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that a fire investigation company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by using a compensation system that illegally combined some workers’ regular hourly pay rate wit ... Read moreSource: www.law360.com -
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Roger Stone Says Gag Order Would Violate 1st Amendment
Published: 8/02/2019Roger Stone told a D.C. federal judge on Friday that his First Amendment rights would be violated if the judge imposes a gag order in the case alleging the conservative political operative acted as a ... Read moreSource: www.law360.com
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DOJ Fights To Overturn Rep In Duro Dyne Asbestos Trust
Published: 8/02/2019U.S. government attorneys urged a New Jersey federal judge on Friday to overturn the appointment of a trustee picked to represent future asbestos exposure victims in the Chapter 11 case for Duro Dyne ... Read moreSource: www.law360.com -
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Bank Ordered To Allow Mont. Tribal Leader To Tap Accounts
Published: 8/02/2019A Montana federal judge on Friday granted an emergency bid to allow the Crow Tribe of Indians' Alvin Not Afraid Jr. to access tribal funds a local bank had frozen amid a leadership dispute, saying not ... Read moreSource: www.law360.com -
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Kanye Didn't Pay For 'Life Of Pablo' Prayer Sample, Suit Says
Published: 8/02/2019Rapper Kanye West used an audio sample of a young girl passionately praying in his 2016 song “Ultralight Beam” and now her parents want him to pay up, according to a copyright infringement lawsuit fil ... Read moreSource: www.law360.com
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Facebook Ruling Gives Antitrust Weight To Data Privacy
Published: 8/02/2019Germany's ruling ordering Facebook to change how it collects user data is a novel recognition of data's competitive weight in today's digital economy, and could spur antitrust and data protection watc ... Read moreSource: www.law360.com -
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GAO Rejects Protest Over SEC Headquarters Lease Terms
Published: 8/02/2019Fixed-price purchase options included in the solicitation for a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters lease did not make the deal unreasonable, and the lease terms weren't unfair to ... Read moreSource: www.law360.com -
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Fed. Circ. Says Voit's Website Patent Folds Under Alice
Published: 8/02/2019The Federal Circuit said Friday that a North Carolina federal court got it right when it ruled that 17 patent claims Voit Technologies LLC was suing over weren’t eligible to be patented in the first p ... Read moreSource: www.law360.com
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Dictator's Victims Urge NY Court Forward Amid Federal Delay
Published: 8/02/2019Victims of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos asked a New York state judge on Friday to let them move forward with an effort to seize $40 million of the kleptocrat's U.S. asset stash, sayin ... Read moreSource: www.law360.com -
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Madoff Investors Lose $41M Clawback Fight At District Court
Published: 8/02/2019A group of investors that profited from Bernie Madoff’s defunct investment firm must turn over to the firm's liquidating estate $41 million in Ponzi scheme proceeds, a New York federal judge ruled Thu ... Read moreSource: www.law360.com -
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Cut $3.6M From Infringement Verdict, Supplement Co. Asks
Published: 8/02/2019Natural supplement maker Flora Inc. asked the Seventh Circuit Friday to yank $3.6 million in statutory damages from a $4 million verdict over claims that it infringed an illustrator's copyrighted work ... Read moreSource: www.law360.com
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Md. Bill Would Let College Athletes Collectively Bargain
Published: 8/02/2019Following the death of a University of Maryland football player last year, a state lawmaker is looking to allow athletes at universities in the state to collectively bargain over their scholarships, b ... Read moreSource: www.law360.com -
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Hints Of 'Sloppy' Prosecution Could Haunt Esformes Trial
Published: 8/02/2019Jurors seated Monday for the $1 billion health care fraud case against Miami businessman Philip Esformes won’t hear details about the pitched battle over prosecutorial errors that a judge called “slop ... Read moreSource: www.law360.com -
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Land Services Co. Says Ex-VP Took Client To Competitor
Published: 8/02/2019Land services company Percheron LLC has alleged its former vice president of business development violated an agreement when he left for a competing company and took a key client with him, according t ... Read moreSource: www.law360.com
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Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Hecht delivers State of the Judiciary
Published: 8/02/2019Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan L. Hecht delivered the State of the Judiciary on February 6 at a joint session of the 86th Legislature at the Texas House chamber. Hecht discussed a number of ... Read moreSource: feeds.lexblog.com -
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New FCC Commissioner To Prioritize Digital Access
Published: 8/02/2019For Geoffrey Starks, a visit to a Kansas barber shop a decade ago sparked what would become his main priority as the Federal Communications Commission's newest member: helping underserved neighborhood ... Read moreSource: www.law360.com
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