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Supreme Court rules that individuals can sue PA
Israel's Supreme Court just made a positive decision: The Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a 2006 decision by the Jerusalem District Court according to which the Palestinian Authority is immune from lawsuits filed by private individuals because it has the elements of a sovereign or quasi-sovereign entity. In doing so, the court accepted an appeal by the Society of the Eilon Moreh Seminary, [...]
Canada’s High Court Hears Bell Canada Appeal
The Supreme Court of Canada reserved judgment Tuesday on whether to approve the $51.8 billion leveraged buyout of Bell Canada, the country’s largest telecommunications company. The Supreme Court will announce its decision later on Bell’s appeal of a lower court decision that had blocked the buyout deal, which will be financed partly by taking on new [...] [...]
Supreme Court Restricts Securities Lawsuits
In one of the most closely watched business cases in years, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld protections for secondary players in securities-fraud schemes, as opposed to the primary engineers of those plots. The court ruled, 5 to 3, against plaintiffs who had sued two cable television equipment suppliers whose dealings with a cable television company [...] [...]
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Gitmo Detainees
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eoz5NgLhVr4 The Daily Jok
Supreme Court Justices Rediscover Constitution
By Hal Lindsey The Supreme Court ruled by a 5-4 margin that the Founding Fathers weren't really a collection of intellectual defectives incapable of understanding what they intended to say when they wrote; "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." For more than 160 years, the right of a [...]
Sen. Mar Roxas in Supreme Court for oral arguments on Neri's petition
Senator Mar Roxas and the Senate's counsels march to the Supreme Court to defend the people's right to know the truth behind the anomalous National Broadband Network (NBN) deal. Roxas co-chairman of the Joint Senate Committees investigating the ZTE-NBN anomalies, said he believes that the Supreme Court will not side with attempts to conceal a crime committed against the people. With him are Attorneys Jose Anselmo Cadiz and Carlos Medina , counsels of the Senate during the oral arguments on Tuesday on the [...]
Supreme Court Rules Against Millionaires Amendment
The Millionaires Amendment, a section of bipartisan campaign finance reform, has been struck down by the Supreme Court today. The case was brought there by Jack Davis, a millionaire running in my local Congressional District who has said he will spend $3 Million of his own money. Under the law his opponents were allowed to [...]
Kucinich Denied - Nevada Supreme Court Rules in Favor of MSNBC
The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that MSNBC can block Kucinich from participating in tonight’s debate.
Challenge to Millionaires’ Amendment Today in the Supreme Court
Today the Supreme Court will consider a case started by Jack Davis who is currently running for Congress in New York’s 26th district and who has pledged to spend $3 Million of his own money. Davis is contesting the “Millionaires’ Amendment” a part of campaign finance law that allows opponents of self financed candidates greater [...]
Canadian Supreme Court to Hear Bell Canada Appeal
From Ian Austen, DealBook’s colleague in Canada: The proposed $51.8 billion leverage buyout of Bell Canada dodged a potentially fatal blow on Monday. The Supreme Court of Canada agreed to hear the telecommunications company’s appeal of a decision by an appeals court in Quebec that reversed approval of the transaction, the largest leveraged buyout in history, [...] [...]