Religion & Law

NY: Traveling evangelist sues Ithaca over noise ordinance
A traveling evangelist claims in a lawsuit that police in Ithaca wouldn't let him preach in a public commons even after he showed them a federal court decision saying the local noise ordinance they cited was unconstitutional.

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...

Preliminary Injunction in Tacoma Lantern Case Reversed by the CAFC
In this case for infringement of US 7,118,245, the USDC, WDWA in Tacoma granted the plaintiff's motion for preliminary injunction on July 3, 2007. In ordering the preliminary injunction, the district court (Judge Burgess) noted that expert testimony provided that the accused device was "identical in all respects (within + or - ...

Roche Agrees to Court's Conditions for Modifying Preliminary Injunction
By Kevin E. Noonan -- On Tuesday, Roche filed its brief in support of U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (Judge William G. Young, presiding) modifying its preliminary injunction granted on February 28th, barring Roche from launching its FDA-approved Mirceraź drug product...

SCHR seeks preliminary injunction for plaintiffs on the sex offender registry.
Here is the brief in support of a preliminary injunction on HB 1059.

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...

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

Clopidogrel Marketed as Plavix FDA Issues Public Health Advisory
Clopidogrel Marketed as Plavix FDA Issues Public Health Advisory

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...

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

Nursing Home Abuse
New Data Made Public