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3 min ago | Reuters

SUMMIT-Rating agencies alert to Argentina debt ruling, souring economy

Argentina's dismal credit ratings might get a boost if U.S. courts rule in the country's favor in a long-running dispute with creditors over a 2002 default, but souring economic conditions could hold the ratings back, credit analysts said.

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Related Topix: US News, Financial Markets

Thu May 23, 2013

Broadcasting & Cable

Broadcasters Seek Injunction Against Aereokiller in D.C. Court

Fox, ABC, NBC and Allbritton Communications have filed suit against Film On's Aereokiller TV station streaming service in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia .

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Family Research Council

The Social Conservative Review: The Insider's Guide to Pro-Family News--May 23, 2013

Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to determine whether or not prayers can be offered at government meetings .

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Related Topix: US Supreme Court, US News, Greece, NY

ABC News

Borders Card Holders Left With Squat

A judge ruled on Wednesday that customers who hold $210.5 million in gift cards from the defunct Borders chain aren't eligible for refunds.

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Related Topix: Economics News, Bankruptcy, US News, Barnes & Noble, Retail, Barnes and Noble

JD Supra

Mihalik v. Credit Agricole Cheuvreux: Second Circuit Clarifies...

On April 26, 2013, the Second Circuit held that New York City Human Rights Law claims must be analyzed separately from federal and state discrimination claims and that the severe or pervasive standard of liability no longer applies to NYCHRL claims.

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New York Post

'Cats' in jam over legal fees

Mayoral hopeful and supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis has to fork over nearly $3.9 million to the lawyers of workers who sued him for shortchanging them at his Gristedes stores, a Manhattan appeals court ruled yesterday.

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Wed May 22, 2013

INDOlink

Rajat Gupta seeks overturning of conviction in insider-trading

NEW YORK: India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta today sought overturning of his insider- trading conviction in a US court here by arguing that the wiretap evidence used by the prosecution in the case should not have been introduced at trial stage.

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JD Supra

Copyright Law Reform Engages Both Courts and Congress

Big changes may be afoot in copyright law these days, via both litigation and legislation.

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Related Topix: WebMD, US News, DMCA News

JD Supra

The Second Circuit's Aereo Math: One Copy + One Subscriber ? Public Performance

On May 14, 2013, the controversial broadcast television streaming service filed a motion for summary judgment in the Southern District of New York on copyright claims brought by broadcast television networks that Aereo's service directly infringes the networks' public performance rights and directly and secondarily infringes their reproduction ... (more)

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Examiner.com

NYC officials spar over right to worship in public schools

City officials took to the podium Tuesday airing grievances against a proposed resolution calling on Albany lawmakers to pass legislation allowing houses of worship in public schools and less than two hours later, a New York City Council committee passed the resolution.

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Related Topix: North Yorkshire County, England, World News, East Riding of Yorkshire County, England, United Kingdom, US News

KTVN Reno

Supreme Court to Weigh in on Legislative Prayers

The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open public meetings.

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Related Topix: US News, Pagan/Wiccan

Tue May 21, 2013

Indiana Law Blog

Courts - Still more on 'SCOTUS Takes Case on Prayer at Town Board Meetings'

Updating yesterday's ILB entry , that includes links to prior coverage of the Indiana legislative prayer case, Dan Carden reports today in the NWI Times , in a story headed "Prayer case set for U.S. Supreme Court similar to Ind.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Mike Pence, Indiana, US Supreme Court, us Travel, Travel, Mitch Daniels, US Governors

Connecticut Post

Gupta challenges insider conviction and use of wiretaps

Rajat Gupta , former Goldman Sachs director and former senior partner at McKinsey & Co., exits Federal court with his lawyer Gary Naftalis after being sentenced to two years in prison on Oct.

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KKLA-FM Glendale

Supreme Court to Hear Public Prayer Case

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case during its next term about whether a town that opened its public meetings with prayer violated the Constitution.

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The Miami Herald

Ex-Goldman exec seeks insider trading retrial

A lawyer for a former board member at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. has told a federal appeals court that his client deserves a new trial.

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Mon May 20, 2013

Law.com

Section 1983 and State Criminal Convictions

In his Civil Rights Litigation column, Ilann M. Maazel, a partner at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, writes: May a non-incarcerated plaintiff assert Section 1983 claims that call into question the validity of a state criminal conviction? In the recent case of 'Poventud v. City of New York,' the Second Circuit answered: yes.

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Law.com

Changing Course, Judge Revives Suit Against Bank

Little more than one month after eviscerating a $774 million suit filed by Dexia S.A. against JPMorgan Chase, Southern District Judge Jed Rakoff has resurrected the case following a Second Circuit ruling on the Edge Act.

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WBIR-TV

Supreme Court will rule on prayer at government meetings

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether prayers can be offered at government meetings -- a practice that's been common in Congress and throughout the states for more than two centuries.

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WKRN

High court to weigh in on legislative prayers

The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open public meetings.

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Sat May 18, 2013

Forbes.com

Judge Grudgingly Lets Donziger's Lawyers Out Of Chevron Case

A skeptical federal judge in New York allowed lawyers to withdraw from defending Steven Donziger in a civil racketeering suit Chevron But in so doing, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan issued a point-by-point refutation of the lawyers' claims that they were forced to withdraw because of Chevron's "endless drumbeat of motions" designed to "crush ... (more)

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