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Daily Mail Tycoon to aid 'pirate' legal fight against extradition to the US on copyright …Daily MailInstead of putting the men on trial in the country where their alleged offences took place, the British legal system is permitting them to be bundled on a plane to America. Last month, Mr O'Dwyer's mother Julia, a paediatric [...]

Mortgage Bankers' Legal Team Reports Lawsuit Against BBVA Compass for Alleged …LoanSafe(SOURCE Lee & Braziel, LLP) – Compass systematically violated federal labor laws by denying overtime pay to its mortgage banking officers, Lee & Braziel, LLP and the Rowdy Meeks Legal Group, LLC allege in a lawsuit filed Thursday in Texas federal court …and more » [...]

Roommates.com has scored a big victory with a 9th Circuit ruling that it can collect personal information from users and match potential roommates according to traits like gender and sexual preference. The panel held that roommate selection is covered by a constitutional right to association. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

ABC News Church steps up fight against lawWorcester Telegram20 after Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, announced that the new federal health care law will require that insurance plans at many religious institutions, including colleges, hospitals, …Will Holy War Over Health Care Law Cost Obama the Catholic Vote?Fox [...]

In the face of the most comprehensive effort yet to keep Bank of America on the hook for alleged fraud in a Countrywide mortgage-backed securities case, a California federal district court judge has rejected Allstate’s successor liability claim against BofA. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

In a hearing Thursday, a federal magistrate judge seemed to agree with disability advocates that forcing CNN to provide closed captioning on its Internet videos doesn’t violate the First Amendment, since closed captioning doesn’t require the news organization to summarize, distill or change its content. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Sanctions against two attorneys who insist that former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld caused the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks have been upheld by a unanimous 2nd Circuit panel that refused to disqualify itself from the case. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

NEW ORLEANS – A former tank cleaner who alleges that his exposure to benzene caused terminal multiple myeloma moved for sanctions Jan. 30 in Louisiana federal court, saying Chevron U.S.A. Inc.’s refusal to turn over material safety data sheets (MSDS) and other materials have made it impossible to conduct meaningful depositions of corporate representatives (Bryan [...]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A federal judge in California on Jan. 31 refused to stay a coverage action against insolvent insurance companies pursuant to liquidation orders filed in a New York state court because the Uniform Insurers Liquidation Act (UILA) does not require that in personam proceedings filed in a California state court against the insolvent [...]

V3.co.uk Apple dealt legal setbacks against Motorola in GermanyCNETApple has begun removing older iPhones from its online store in Germany due to a previous legal victory won by Motorola Mobility, according to legal blog Foss Patents. Separately, the site also reported that a German court granted Motorola's request to …Motorola deals Apple pair of upsets [...]