Lawyers for Alcoa said in court filings Friday that lawsuit involves a foreign dispute beyond the scope of the civil racketeering law. They point to the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Morrison v. National Australia Bank, which held that if a "statute gives no clear indication of an extraterritorial application, it has none."
A federal appeals court has revived a three-year old lawsuit involving a former Eastern Michigan University student that addresses whether counselors who refuse to work with gays and lesbians on religious grounds are in breach of professional ethics.
Empirical Creative supports Boies Schiller and Gibson Dunn in historic case challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the California ballot measure banning same-sex marriage. Read More...
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