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U.S. Legal Support Appoints New CFOMarketWatch (press release)Prior to joining US Legal Support, Steve held the position of chief operating officer of Ameristem, Inc., an early-stage biotech company offering consumers …and more » View full post on legal – Google News

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is set to relocate its headquarters in New York next year, in a move that will increase the firm’s New York office capacity by more than 50 percent. The news follows a number of key New York hires by the Magic Circle firm during the past year. View full post on Law.com [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Recommending that the U.S. Supreme Court deny certification of the question of whether the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) is subject to the anti-preemption provision of the McCarran-Ferguson Act, the U.S. solicitor general on Aug. 26 said, among other things, that the issue is not in conflict in the circuit courts (Louisiana Safety [...]

The National Interest Online (blog) Can the CIA Put a U.S.-Born al Qaeda Figure on its "Kill List"?U.S. News & World ReportIn this situation, legal experts say, citizenship provides no protection—and, in any event, the facts of the ACLU's case are unlikely to even get a full …Another Slippery Slope in the War on Terrorism?The [...]

Daily Mail Classifieds website Craigslist 'censors' its erotic services on U.S. sites …Daily MailOnline classifieds website Craigslist has censored its adult services section throughout America – after legal pressure from at least 17 states. …and more » View full post on legal – Google News

On Thursday, Southern District of New York Judge Lewis A. Kaplan addressed whether the government may call as a witness a man whose identity was revealed by the former Osama bin Laden bodyguard, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, when he was subjected to “extremely harsh interrogation methods” by the CIA. Ghailani moved to suppress the statements that [...]

On Thursday, Southern District of New York Judge Lewis A. Kaplan addressed whether the government may call as a witness a man whose identity was revealed by the former Osama bin Laden bodyguard, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, when he was subjected to “extremely harsh interrogation methods” by the CIA. Ghailani moved to suppress the statements that [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The nation’s largest retailer on Aug. 25 filed a petition for writ of certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a California federal judge’s decision to certify a class of more than 1 million current and former female Walmart employees who claim that the company discriminated against them based on their [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bank that contends that transportation ownership expenses are not permitted in a bankruptcy when a debtor has no car payment filed a brief on Aug. 6 in the U.S. Supreme Court, insisting that “phantom” expenses cannot be deducted from disposable income (Jason M. Ransom v. MBNA America Bank, No, 09-907, Chapter [...]

The recently rejuvenated presumption against the extraterritorial reach of U.S. laws applies to civil racketeering cases, a federal judge has ruled. Applying the logic of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision limiting the reach of securities actions, Southern District of New York Judge Jed S. Rakoff dismissed a civil RICO action alleging that individuals and [...]