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Clinton presses Ukraine on former PM's legal caseSTLtoday.comAP | Posted: Saturday, February 4, 2012 8:02 am | Loading… US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pose for photographers during the 48th Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof hotel …and more » View full post on legal – Google [...]

Clinton presses Ukraine on former PM's legal caseSan Francisco ChronicleBy MATTHEW LEE, AP Jim Watson / AP US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pose for photographers during the 48th Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, …and more » View full post on legal – [...]

Boston.com Clinton presses Ukraine on former PM's legal caseBoston.comUS Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives at the Security Conference on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 in Munich, Germany. Politicians and military representatives will join for the 48. Munich Security conference from Friday, Feb.and more » View full post on legal – Google News

Atlanta Journal Constitution Clinton presses Ukraine on former PM's legal caseAtlanta Journal ConstitutionBy MATTHEW LEE AP MUNICH — US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is pressing Ukrainian authorities to quickly resolve the criminal case brought against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (YOOL'-yah tee-moh-SHEN'-koh).and more » View full post on legal – Google News

Main Justice Botched Stevens Case Costs Taxpayers $1.8 Million in Legal FeesMain JusticeIt is also costing the taxpayers, to the tune of some $1.8 million in legal fees so far to defend prosecutors from allegations of wrongdoing. The DOJ has paid about $1.6 million since 2009 to private lawyers representing six prosecutors accused of …and [...]

NEW YORK – The federal bankruptcy judge presiding over the Chapter 11 proceeding ofEner1 Inc. on Feb. 1 approved $ 13.5 million in debtor-in-possession financing to fund the bankruptcy proceeding (In Re: Ener1 Inc., No. 12-10299, Chapter 11, S.D. N.Y. Bkcy.). View full post on LexisNexis® Mealey’s™ Daily Legal News

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 YORK – Despite “serious reservations” about a perceived proliferation of ex parte applications for expedited discovery in online file-sharing cases, a New York federal judge on Jan. 30 found that good cause exists for a plaintiff to engage in “cabined, expedited discovery” with respect to several John Doe defendants (Digital Sin Inc. v. John [...]

BROOKLYN, NY – The New York federal judge overseeing the pamidronate multidistrict litigation on Jan. 30 dismissed the claims of the last nine plaintiffs in the litigation after they did not oppose a finding that their claims involving the generic version of Aredia are preempted by the U.S. Supreme Court’s generic preemption ruling in Pliva, [...]

The next Citizens United may have nothing to do with campaign finance or the First Amendment. In a case the Supreme Court will hear this month, corporations argue that they have no liability under a 1789 statute for torts committed abroad in violation of international law or U.S. treaties. View full post on Law.com – [...]