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In re GSC Group, Inc.
Declaration of Peter Frank in Support of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy First Day Pleadings
Post Date: 09/01/2010 | Filing Date: 08/31/2010
On Tuesday evening, GSC Group, Inc. and affiliates GSCP, LLC, GSC Active Partners, Inc., GSCP (NJ), Inc., GSCP (NJ) Holdings, L.P., GSCP (NJ), L.P., and GSC Secondary Interest Fund, LLC voluntarily filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy more...
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Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Homeland Security
Freedom of Information Act Appeal on TSA10-0674
Post Date: 08/31/2010 | Filing Date: 08/27/2010
EPIC Presses for Release of Government Documents on Health Risks of Airport Body Scanners
EPIC has filed an appeal with the Transportation Security Administration, challenging the agency's denial of expedited processing and fee more...
Contributor: Electronic Privacy Information Center [Full Profile | Docs Posted]
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Interval Licensing LLC v AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo!, and YouTube
Interval Licensing v AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, et al - Complaint for Patent Infringement
Post Date: 08/27/2010 | Filing Date: 08/27/2010
Full-text copy of Paul Allen's Interval Licensing patent infringement complaint against AOL, Apple, eBAY, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, Officemax, Staples, Yahoo!, and YouTube.
"Interval Research Corporation (“Interval more...
Contributor: Adrian Lurssen [Full Profile | Docs Posted]
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Bright et al. v. United States
Opposition to Government's Petition for Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc
Post Date: 08/24/2010 | Filing Date: 08/24/2010
Earlier this year, the U.S. Court of Appeals held that the statute of limitations in a class-action takings case was tolled by the filing of the complaint. 603 F.3d 1273 (Fed. Cir. 2010). The Federal Circuit thus reversed the trial more...
Contributor: Nancie G. Marzulla [Full Profile | Docs Posted]
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Mildenberger (Rivers Coalition) v. United States
Reply Brief
Post Date: 08/23/2010 | Filing Date: 08/23/2010
This brief responds to the Government's arguments against takings liability for destroying the water quality in the St. Lucie River and Estuary. For years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been dumping polluted, toxic river into a more...
Contributor: Nancie G. Marzulla [Full Profile | Docs Posted]
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SGEU and SB v, Saskatchewan Social Services
Punitive Damages for malicious manner of dismissal
Post Date: 08/23/2010 | Filing Date: 08/23/2010
SB, a Social Services supervisor, was accused of sexual misconduct by an unreliable client of Social Services seeking to discredit him in order to regain custody of her apprehended children.The Department immediately terminated the more...
Contributor: Larry Dawson [Full Profile | Docs Posted]
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USA v. William R. Clemens a/k/a Roger Clemens
Roger Clemens Indictment accusing him of lying to Congress
Post Date: 08/19/2010 | Filing Date: 08/19/2010
Indictment of Roger Clemens, a former pitcher for the New York Yankees, Houston Astros, and Toronto Blue Jays, on charges that he obstructed Congress, gave false statements, and perjured himself about his use of steroids, performance more...
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Bruce W. Boudreaux v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company and Larry Brazile
Final Judgement Asserting Defense Verdict After 5-day Jury Trial
Post Date: 08/17/2010 | Filing Date: 08/17/2010
David Strauss and Adam Massey defended a national insurer and its insured in a casualty case involving both liability and medical causation issues in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans.
The plaintiff (who was an more...
Contributor: King, Krebs & Jurgens, PLLC [Full Profile | Docs Posted]
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UMG Recordings, Inc., et al. v. VEOH Networks, Inc., et al
Reply Brief of Appellants
Post Date: 08/20/2010 | Filing Date: 08/16/2010
Like many other companies that host content on behalf of users, video-hosting service Veoh has been bedeviled by copyright lawsuits. The copyright owners make the same argument in each of these suits: the hosting service should be more...
Contributor: Electronic Frontier Foundation [Full Profile | Docs Posted]
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Connick, et al., v. Thompson
Brief of Amici Curiae Alliance Defense Fund and CATO Institute In Support of Respondent
Post Date: 08/16/2010 | Filing Date: 08/13/2010
If a man is wrongfully convicted and held on death row for 18 years — 14 in solitary confinement — because prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence in his case, is there any reason that courts should keep him from recovering damages more...
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Road Rock, Inc. v. Florida Power & Light
Decision Awarding $20 million to Robert Elmore for FP&L's breach of a 1984 mining agreement
Post Date: 08/13/2010 | Filing Date: 08/13/2010
Judge Rosenberg, a judge in the Complex Litigation Unit of the 17th Circuit Court in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, has just rendered judgment in favor of Robert Elmore, owner of Road Rock, Inc., against the Florida Power & Light Company more...
Contributor: Nancie G. Marzulla [Full Profile | Docs Posted]
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Marchig v. Christie's Inc.
Plaintiffs' amended complaint
Post Date: 08/18/2010 | Filing Date: 08/13/2010
Judge John Koeltl denied defendant Christie's motion to dismiss the complaint, and gave plaintiffs permission to file an amended complaint. The case is about Christie's failure to attribute the drawing correctly, and auctioning it for more...
Contributor: Richard A. Altman [Full Profile | Docs Posted]
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Pearson Education, Inc. v. Textbook Discounters
Reply Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion to Dismiss
Post Date: 08/13/2010 | Filing Date: 08/13/2010
This is a reply brief on the motion to dismiss the case filed against importers of "foreign" versions of textbooks against one of the publishers of those textbooks. The main issue involves the applicability of the First Sale Doctrine more...
Contributor: Ronald Coleman [Full Profile | Docs Posted]
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Jewel, et al. v. National Security Agency & Schubert, et al., v. Bush, et al.,
Brief of Schubert Appellants
Post Date: 08/17/2010 | Filing Date: 08/13/2010
This case is a class action alleging wholesale dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans.
Please see full appellate brief below for more information. more...
Contributor: Electronic Frontier Foundation [Full Profile | Docs Posted]
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NASA v. Nelson
Brief of Amici Curiae Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) , et al. In support of The Respondents
Post Date: 08/12/2010 | Filing Date: 08/12/2010
EPIC Urges Supreme Court to Protect NASA Scientists' Privacy
EPIC filed a "friend of the court" brief in the United States Supreme Court, urging the Justices to protect the privacy of scientists working at NASA's Jet Propulsion more...
Contributor: Electronic Privacy Information Center [Full Profile | Docs Posted]
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Oracle America Inc v. Google Inc
Oracle v. Google - Complaint for Copyright and Patent Infringement
Post Date: 08/12/2010 | Filing Date: 08/12/2010
Full-text copy of Oracle's complaint against Google regarding Java patent infringement. Filed in Northern California District court 8/12/2010. Quote: "Android (including without limitation the Dalvik VM and the Android software more...
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Dr. Barry Eppley, MD, DMD vs. Lucille Iacovelli
Emergency 7th Circuit Appeals Brief (ignored) Regarding Iacovelli's Death
Post Date: 08/14/2010 | Filing Date: 08/10/2010
This is a filing the 7th Circuit court of appeals ignored in the wake of Lucille Iacovelli's death. If anyone can help with an appeal of the 7th Circuit's ruling to the Supreme Court, please contact Rich Bergeron at more...
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Viacom, et al., v. Youtube, et al
Final Judgment
Post Date: 08/21/2010 | Filing Date: 08/09/2010
In March 2007, Viacom sued YouTube and Google, alleging that they should be held responsible for the copyright infringements committed by YouTube users. The lawsuit seeks more than $1 billion in damages and came on the heels of more...
Contributor: Electronic Frontier Foundation [Full Profile | Docs Posted]
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NASA v. Nelson
Brief of Amicus Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation In Support of Respondents
Post Date: 08/12/2010 | Filing Date: 08/09/2010
EFF urged the United States Supreme Court to uphold an appeals court decision that blocks invasive and unnecessary background checks at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), arguing that the over-collection of more...
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Pestell v. American Carriage, Inc.
Abstract of Judgment
Post Date: 08/11/2010 | Filing Date: 08/09/2010
Abstract of Judgment in lawsuit where alter ego liability found as to husband and wife shareholders and their family trust. more...
Contributor: Kassandra McQuillen [Full Profile | Docs Posted]
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