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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.
Two very different cases, the Jose Padilla case and the "balloon boy" case, cast new light on a legal issue that has been simmering for years: when, whether and how defendants should be informed about the collateral consequences of pleading or being found guilty. A model law tackling the issue will go before the American Bar Association for endorsement in February, and then would be put before ...
From the marbled corridors of Congress to the tony salons of Georgetown, liberal lawmakers are abuzz with ideas on how to rein in U.S. corporations. Yet over in the courts, two conservative lawyers are mounting a serious challenge to a law, enacted earlier in the decade, that imposed tough restrictions on American businesses. A ruling in their favor could deal a serious blow to the pro ...
Back when the Constitution was being drafted, there was no way to account for modern issues like abortion or sodomy, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said on Tuesday.
BENNINGTON — Brandeis University professor Anita Hill, who rose to national prominence in 1991 during the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has been appointed to serve as a member of Southern Vermont College's board of trustees, the independent college announced on Thursday. ... - By PATRICK McARDLE Staff Writer
COLUMBUS -- The Constitution is best treated as an original document within the context of its historical creation, not as a text subject to modern reinterpretation, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Tuesday.
By JIM PROVANCE BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU CHIEF COLUMBUS - Even North Carolina state Rep. Chris Heagarty knows the name Alice Resnick and can recite the attack ad allegations made against the former Ohio Supreme Court justice nine years ago. "I'm from almost a time zone away, and I saw how awful those ads were," he told a crowd of justices, judges, lawyers, politicians, and citizen group ...
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts visited the University of Oklahoma College of Law Tuesday."This is the first time in history that a sitting chief justice has come to Oklahoma," Dean Andrew Coats said.
"Don't resolve your dispute in the street, bring it to court."Judge Timothy C. Evans has spent the better part of his professional career championing that point of view, first as a litigator and assistant corporate counsel for the city of Chicago, then as deputy commissioner and alderman, later as a judge and finally as chief judge of the Cook County Circuit Court.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia plans a speech at Ohio State University on the interpretation of the Constitution.
A pending Supreme Court case could ease flow of corporate money in campaigns. United States Supreme Court - Supreme Court - United States - Government - Judicial Branch
When Cook County's Chief Judge Timothy Evans is honored at the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday, it will be a landmark moment for the once-disgraced local Circuit Court. CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports.
Somewhere between horse-training tricks and Amazon's 1-Click ordering lies the answer the Supreme Court is seeking. To wit, when is a good idea worth a patent?
Comments made by Justices during a Nov. 9 hearing on Bilski v. Kappos — a case that could end up impacting the patentability of genes — suggest that the US Supreme Court is struggling to define the circumstances under which processes not linked to a machine or to the transformation of physical matter are patentable.
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 19, 2009 - Based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, 22,295,000 Americans with disabilities are of working age; however, only 36.9 percent were employed, compared to the 79.7 percent of the non-disabled.
Since becoming the first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor has mamboed with movie stars, exchanged smooches with musicians at the White House and thrown out the first pitch for her beloved New York Yankees. A famous jazz composer even wrote a song about her: "Wise Latina Woman." Few Americans can name most of the justices, but Sotomayor has become a celebrity -- all without ...
