LEGAL VIDEOS

  • Cox helps thwart HMO purchase
    LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - Blue Care Network has abandoned its plan to acquire Physicians Health Plan of Mid-Michigan, a Lansing-based HMO, much to the delight of state Attorney General Mike Cox.

    Blue Care Network, which is owned by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, said it could not gain federal...
  • Ski resort settles hazardous materials suit
    MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - The owner and operator of a West Dover ski resort has agreed to pay civil penalties to the state to settle claims brought by Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell.

    Sorrell had alleged that Mount Snow, Ltd., which owns and operates Mount Snow Resort, had violated a...
  • Settlement reached with Wis. tire disposal facility
    NIAGARA, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - A tire-processing facility has agreed to take corrective actions and pay a $35,000 fine to settle claims brought by Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen under state solid waste management laws.

    American Tire & Recycling Corporation and Keary Ecklund, its operations manager, were alleged to have...
  • McKenna secures settlement with Australian e-book peddler
    SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - Sexy stories used to sell bogus health cures over the Internet have led to a settlement between two Australians and Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna.

    McKenna filed a lawsuit in 2009 against Leanne Rita Vassallo and Aaron David Smith over alleged deceptive business practices. It accused the...
  • Brief argues against liability expansion in asbestos suits
    SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - A group of business organizations and insurance companies is urging the California Supreme Court to reject a legal theory that they say holds manufacturers liable for products made by others in asbestos cases.

    An amicus brief filed by the American Tort Reform Foundation and the U.S....

Latest Decisions from the United States Supreme Court

Wyeth v. Levine

Wednesday, 04 March 2009 21:00

(U.S.S.C., Consumer Products, Consumer Protection Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury And Tort Law, Product Liability) In a tort action based on an injury due to the medical use of Defendant's drug Phenergan, judgment for Plaintiff is affirmed where Federal law does not preempt Plaintiff's claim that the drug's label did not contain an adequate warning about the IV-push method of administration.

Summers v. Earth Island Inst.

Tuesday, 03 March 2009 21:00

(U.S.S.C., Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate) In an action challenging Forest Service regulations exempting certain land management activities from the agency's review process, an injunction against the regulations is reversed where Plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the regulations absent a live dispute over a concrete application of those regulations.

Pleasant Grove City v. Summum

Wednesday, 25 February 2009 21:00

(U.S.S.C., Civil Rights, Communications Law, Government Law) In a First Amendment action claiming that Plaintiff was entitled to place a monument in a public park where Defendant city had allowed other monuments, denial of a preliminary injunction is affirmed, where the First Amendment does not apply to government speech.

Carcieri v. Salazar

Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:00

(U.S.S.C., Administrative Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate) In a challenge to the Interior Secretary's holding of lands in trust for Indians under 25 U.S.C. section 465, judgment for Defendants is reversed, where the term "now under federal jurisdiction" refers to a tribe that was under federal jurisdiction at the time of the statute's enactment.

Negusie v. Holder

Tuesday, 03 March 2009 21:00

(U.S.S.C., Administrative Law, Immigration Law) In an application for asylum, the denial of the application based on Petitioner's persecution of others is reversed, where the Board of Immigrant Appeals misapplied Fedorenko v. US, 449 U.S. 490 (1981), as mandating that whether an alien is compelled to assist in persecution is immaterial for persecutor-bar purposes. The BIA must interpret the statute, free from this mistaken legal premise, in the first instance.

Pacific Bell Tel. Co. v. Linkline Comms., Inc.

Wednesday, 25 February 2009 21:00

(U.S.S.C., Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Communications Law) In an antitrust action alleging a "price squeeze" claim, denial of judgment on the pleadings for Defendant is reversed, where such a claim cannot be brought where the defendant is under no antitrust obligation to sell inputs to the plaintiff.

Ysursa v. Pocatello Educ. Ass'n.

Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:00

(U.S.S.C., Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law) In a First Amendment challenge to a law prohibiting public employees from making payroll deductions for political activities, summary judgment for Defendant is affirmed, where the First Amendment does not confer a right to use government payroll mechanisms for political expression.

US v. Hayes

Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:00

(U.S.S.C., Criminal Law & Procedure, Family Law) Defendant's conviction for possessing a firearm under 18 U.S.C. section 921 is affirmed, where a domestic relationship between the offender and victim need not be an element of the defendant's "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" to trigger Section 921's possession ban.