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A US appeals court has ruled that the state of Arkansas has the right to deny Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood. In 2015, the state ended its contract with the abortion provider because of controversial undercover videos. In a 2-to-1 ruling Wednesday, an Eighth US Circuit Court of Appeals panel in St. Louis vacated a […]
Enlarge (credit: Casey Fiesler) A federal appeals court has upheld a legal process that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” That process was held by a company called Personal Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in recent years. On Monday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the April 2015 inter partes review […]
Thomson Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday allowed Democratic state attorneys general to defend subsidy payments to insurance companies under the Obamacare healthcare law, a critical part of funding for the statute that President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia […]
Published time: 29 Jul, 2017 03:25 After a Christian conservative judge denied two requests by a lesbian mother to have himself recused from her divorce case for his religious beliefs, but she refused to give up and appealed to a higher state court. Alabama native Tiara Brooke Lycans, who is divorcing her husband Zachary Thomas […]
Enlarge (credit: Saul Gravy, Getty Images) A federal appeals court is giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation a big boost when it comes to secretly investigating national security affairs. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday upheld federal rules prohibiting companies from promptly disclosing to customers that the FBI is demanding a user’s […]
Newegg Chief Legal Officer Lee Cheng. (credit: Newegg) In 2010, AdjustaCam LLC filed suit (PDF) in Eastern Texas against dozens of companies, saying that they infringed US Patent No. 5,855,343, which describes a type of movable camera clip. AdjustaCam is a subsidiary of Acacia Research Corporation, the biggest public patent-holding company. The AdjustaCam lawsuit included camera makers like Gear Head […]
The horrific incident happened in the sprint finish at the end of stage four in Vittel when Sagan lifted his elbow and sent Cavendish hurtling into the barriers. The Briton spun into the road and another rider ploughed over him as he fell. Yorkshire’s Ben Swift then struck Cavendish’s front wheel and somersaulted into the […]
Published time: 4 Jul, 2017 04:23 The Environmental Protection Agency’s 90-day suspension of new emission standards on oil and gas wells has been struck down by a US appeals court. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has long sought a repeal of the Obama-era rules. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District […]
Enlarge (credit: Victoria Pickering) On Monday, a federal appeals court is ruling against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban. This decision is based, in part, on the commander-in-chief’s statement on Twitter. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, said Trump’s banning of nationals from six largely Muslim nations from entering the […]
(credit: Aurich Lawson) A US federal appeals court has upheld (PDF) a life sentence for Ross Ulbricht. He was convicted in 2015 of being the Dread Pirate Roberts who ran the Silk Road website, the largest Internet black market at that time. The three-judge panel unanimously upheld the rulings on a variety of issues by US District Judge Kathleen […]
