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FOX 4 News Judge lets songram law take effectHouston ChronicleBy Gary Scharrer AUSTIN – US District Judge Sam Sparks declined to stop a new sonogram law from taking effect in a ruling Monday that indicates his hands were tied by an appellate court. "There can be little doubt that (the law) is an attempt by [...]

BECKLEY, W.Va. – A federal judge in West Virginia on Jan. 31 granted Credit One Bank NA’s motion to compel arbitration in a case in which a plaintiff alleges that the bank’s attempt to collect a debt violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and West Virginia law (Senetha Montgomery v. Credit One Bank NA, [...]

FOX 4 News Federal judge says he can't block Texas sonogram law, says higher court forced …Washington PostAUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge in Austin said Monday that he couldn't block a Texas law requiring women to have a sonogram before having an abortion any longer because an appeals court had ordered it to take [...]

NEW YORK – A party to a reinsurance arbitration did not prove that a pair of arbitrators’ failure to disclose their participation in a seemingly related arbitration amounted to evident partiality, a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held Feb. 3, reversing a lower court decision (Scandinavian Reinsurance Company Limited v. St. Paul Fire [...]

US judge says he can't block Texas sonogram lawThe Associated PressAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge in Austin said Monday that he couldn't block a Texas law requiring women to have a sonogram before having an abortion any longer because an appeals court had ordered it to take effect. District Judge Sam Sparks …Texas [...]

NEW YORK – A shareholder has failed to plead her federal securities law claims against a company and its subsidiary for allegedly engaging in illegal short-swing profit activities, a federal judge in New York ruled Jan. 31 in dismissing the shareholder’s claims against the defendants (Donna Ann Gabriele Chechele v. Vicis Capital, LLC, et al., [...]

DAYTON, Ohio – A former employee of an Ohio accounting services company has shown that other employees are similarly situated for the purpose of notifying them that they can opt in to her collective action for unpaid overtime wages, an Ohio federal judge held Feb. 1 (Theresa M. Albert v. Janice L. Shannon, et al., [...]

NEWARK, N.J. – A health plan participants’ claim, which alleged that the plan violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by relying on flawed data in determining reimbursement rates for out-of-network treatment (ONET), did not begin to accrue on the date the participants received their explanation of benefits (EOB) because they were not aware of [...]

NEW YORK – Dismissal of federal securities law claims brought by foreign investors that purchased their shares on a foreign exchange is proper under the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Ltd. because the shares were not purchased on an American stock exchange, a federal judge in New York ruled Feb. [...]

Federal judge allows polygamous family's lawsuit challenging Utah's bigamy law …Washington PostSALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge has ruled there's sufficient evidence to allow a polygamous family made famous by a reality TV show to pursue a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Utah's bigamy law. US District Judge Clark Waddoups on Friday …and more » [...]