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Supreme Court Slashes Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Fine to One-Ten
The Supreme Court handed corporate America a major victory this week when it sharply reduced the amount of money Exxon Mobil has to pay in punitive damages for the 1 989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska....
Obama moving toward center - Chicago Tribune
Washington — He would expand the government's wiretap powers and allow states to execute certain rapists. He talks tough against Iran. When the Supreme Court on Thursday struck down Washington, D.C.'s ban on handguns, he did not complain. This ...
The Supreme Court Rules on Money Laundering Cases
Santos, the Supreme Court significantly pared back the reach and scope of the money-laundering statute (18 USC section 1956) and has in the process reinvigorated an old and glorious defense - the rule of lenity. ...
Court blocked from case: Too many investments - Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court tossed itself off a big case Monday. The court couldn't take up an apartheid dispute involving some of the nation's largest companies because too many of the justices had investments or other ties with those ...
Supreme Court can't hear apartheid case - San Francisco Gate
The Supreme Court tossed itself off a big case Monday. The court couldn't take up an apartheid dispute involving some of the nation's largest companies because too many of the justices had investments or other ties with those corporate giants. It ...
