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An insurance company for Penn State has asked a Philadelphia court to declare it should not have to provide coverage or pay the university’s defense costs in a suit stemming from the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal, unless the abuse in the underlying case began in what appeared to be a narrow time frame. View [...]

Politico Wash. state Senate passes gay marriage lawUPI.comWhile senators mostly followed party lines in Wednesday's vote, four Republicans supported the law, including two who had not announced their intentions in advance. Same-sex marriage is legal in six states and the District of Columbia.Indiana will become first Rust Belt state with right-to-work lawLos Angeles TimesMitch Daniels [...]

Newsday Indiana Governor Signs a Law Creating a 'Right to Work' StateNew York TimesMitch Daniels of Indiana, who had once said that he did not wish to add a “right to work” provision to the state's labor laws, signed a bill on Wednesday doing just that. The legislation, which bars union contracts from requiring non-union [...]

Politico Alabama's Immigration Law to Cost State Millions in Lost Taxes, Study SaysFox NewsAlabama employers say Latinos — including legal immigrants — are not showing up at their jobs because of the hostile environment they feel since an immigration law took effect.AP Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Related Stories New Immig.Alabama immigration law costs [...]

CONCORD, N.H. – The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) failed to show a congressional intent to preempt the New Hampshire state priority law for purposes of its lawsuit against an insolvent insurance company and its liquidator regarding classification of the DOL’s claim, a New Hampshire federal judge held Jan. 27, finding that the law is [...]

CBS Local Indiana will become first Rust Belt state with right-to-work lawLos Angeles TimesMitch Daniels on Wednesday is set to make his state the first in the Rust Belt — once the home of powerful unions — to have a right-to-work law. The measure received final legislative passage Wednesday morning, and Daniels was expected to [...]

Alabama immigration crackdown costs state up to $11 bln: studyChicago TribuneThe Alabama law, passed in June, requires police to detain people they suspect of being in the US illegally if they cannot produce proper documentation when stopped for any reason, among other measures. The cost-benefit analysis by University of …and more » View full post on [...]

EchoStar failed in its duty to preserve relevant emails leading up to a $2.5 billion contract dispute, an appellate panel has ruled, becoming the first New York state appeal court to apply the standard for spoliation of electronic evidence set forth in 2003 by a New York federal judge in Zubulake. View full post on [...]

San Francisco Examiner Measure to scale back Three-Strikes law passes state Assembly – but no vote …San Jose Mercury NewsBy Tracey Kaplan A group of Stanford University professors backing an initiative to scale back California's tough three strikes law will continue to aim for the November ballot, even as the state Assembly on Tuesday passed [...]

TAMPA, Fla. – In a case in which a plaintiff alleges that a supermarket chain charged hidden ATM fees, a federal judge in Florida on Jan. 26 denied the plaintiff’s motion to return the suit to state court, rejecting the argument that the defendant fails to establish that the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) applies [...]