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Federal District Court Denies Preliminary Injunction in SpeechNow case
In an important ruling, a federal district court today denied SpeechNow's request for a preliminary injunction barring the FEC from enforcing the $5,000 individual contribution limit to its PAC...

District Court Denies Preliminary Injunction For Use of Song In Video Game Lawsuit
In Romantics v. Activision Publishing, the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan denied a request for a preliminary injunction "distributor of video game and related entities from advertising or distributing game containing new recording of song,...

Washington Court Keeps Injunction Against Pharmacy Board Rules
Last November, a Washington federal district court granted a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of Washington state pharmacy rules requiring pharmacists to fill requests for Plan B emergency contraceptives even if doing so violates the pharmacists' religious beliefs...

Preliminary Injunction
A vacated pair of precedential preliminary injunction appeals put claim construction and KSR as the cruxes of justification. In Erico v. Vutec & Doc's Marketing, though hotly contested, KSR Obzilla stomps in to quash a preliminary injunction...

Delaware Chancery Court Denies Preliminary Injunction Based on Inadequate Disclosure in Merger Proxy Regarding Financial Analyses (and Other Matters)
Delaware Chancery Court Denies Preliminary Injunction Based on Inadequate Disclosure in Merger Proxy Regarding Financial Analyses (and Other Matters) From Kevin Miller of Alston & Bird: In this decision by Vice Chancellor Lamb, the Delaware Chancery Court denied a motion...

Refusal to Issue Preliminary Injunction is Appealable Order
A trial court's refusal to issue a preliminary injunction is an appealable order. Under Rule 4(a)(1)(A), a party “can appeal from ‘any interlocutory order granting, continuing, modifying, refusing, or dissolving an injunction, or refusing to dissolve or to modify an injunction...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Female Sales Reps Win Gender Case Against Novartis
Female Sales Reps Win Gender Case Against Novartis

Preliminary Settlement Reached With Soleus International
Soleus International Reaches Preliminary Settlement of Class Action

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

YTB International
Sales Agents Seek Class Action

Ticketmaster
FacesThird Class Action Alleging Fraud Related to Ticket Sales