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Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- A U.S. Supreme Court case may prompt Congress to scale back the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley law, the measure that tightened oversight of financial disclosure after the Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc. collapses.
A House judiciary subcommittee has scheduled a hearing for Thursday on the recusal of judges. Lawmakers have shown a renewed interest in the issue, with plans to examine the process that federal judges use to decide recusal motions. The hearing will mark the first time Congress has addressed recusals in a significant way since 2004, when Democrats criticized Justice Antonin Scalia for declining ...
Supreme Court justices fired hard questions at attorneys on both sides of the aisle Wednesday, but the state left feeling that they had a slight edge over the property owners. “I think the judgment will be in favor of the state,” said Yale law...
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court considered bolstering the rights of oceanfront property owners, as justices questioned a Florida program that protects against erosion by adding sand and creating new strips of public beach.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- To hear waterfront homeowners tell it, the state of Florida embarked on a scheme to create a public beach alongside their private property, smack between their land and the Gulf of Mexico.
While attorneys on both sides of the sandbox argued the beach restoration case before the U.S. Supreme Court, a higher power was delivering a definitive closing argument. As pundits and reporters scrambled to analyze the hearing, a winter storm that...
Florida homeowners argued Wednesday before the U.S. Supreme Court that they should be compensated for a beach restoration project that leaves their private beachfront property open to the public.
A lawyer for waterfront landowners encountered both skepticism and support at the US Supreme Court on Wednesday while urging the justices to wade into a long-running dispute over the effect of erosion-control efforts on seaside property rights in Florida.
Tennessee executed a man Wednesday who had served nearly three decades on death row for killing three people during a shooting spree at a Nashville convenience store.
ALBANY — Jurors will begin a sixth day of deliberations today in the federal corruption trial of former Sen. Joseph L. Bruno after spending much of Thursday focused on whether Bruno received the proper clearance to do consulting work and if he publicly disclosed his business relationships.
As the Supreme Court weighs a challenge to beach renourishment, the ownership of pricey strips hangs in the balance.
In a constitutional challenge involving a Minnesota law firm, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed troubled by a federal restriction on legal advice to potential bankruptcy clients, but less concerned about the requirement that lawyers advertise as a "debt relief agency" if they give bankruptcy advice.
An interesting case came before the U.S. Supreme Court today: Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida. It may sound more like a trendy diet than a case for the nation's highest court, but the issue at stake is a serious ...
The Supreme Court is considering the validity of business method patents, but there's a more fundamental question for entrepreneurs: should one exercise one's patent rights?
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Supreme Court voiced skepticism Monday of Merck & Co. Inc.'s (MRK) arguments that shareholders waited too long to file securities lawsuits alleging the drug maker misrepresented the safety of painkiller drug Vioxx, which it removed from the market in 2004.
U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed reluctant Monday to give the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. a "statute of limitations" way out of defending against a securities fraud class action involving Vioxx.
