Senior government officials, including the former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, cannot be held liable for claims they unlawfully used electronic surveillance to spy on a CBS television reporter because such conduct did not violate a clearly established right. Background ...

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A housekeeper who was repeatedly raped by the husband of a U.S. State Department employee while working at the U.S. embassy in Yemen obtained a $3 million judgment against the wife. Although the wife argued that, because the abuse occurred ...

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Where insurance policies provided coverage for any organization other than a partnership or joint venture over which the insured had a majority interest in and the insured demonstrated that it had a majority financial interest in a company, the insurers ...

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Conviction for assault, battery or wounding an officer while resisting arrest could not serve as a predicate offense under the violent felony clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act because it is possible for a person to be convicted of ...

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After Congress set a specific deadline for the Department of Energy to remove a specific amount of plutonium from South Carolina, the district court correctly determined that it was required to order the DOE to remove the plutonium. Affirmed. Congress ...

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A numismatics lobbying group that intentionally imported ancient coins under international trade restrictions was unsuccessful in challenging forfeiture of the coins. Abuse of discretion is the appropriate standard for reviewing lower-court decisions to strike pleadings. Background In 1970, the U.S. ...

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BY HEATH HAMACHER BridgeTower Media Newswires One of the men responsible for the Beltway sniper attacks of 2002 that left 10 dead and three injured has won an appeal to have four life sentences reconsidered by the Virginia courts that ...

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After credit cards were fraudulently opened in their names, a class of optometrists alleged an injury in fact traceable to their professional organization. Background In July 2016, optometrists across the nation noticed that Chase Amazon Visa credit card accounts had ...

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Federal prosecutors had a change of heart last month about a convicted drug dealer who claimed his sentence was too long because of a mutual mistake about his status. The government dropped its opposition and agreed to a lesser sentence ...

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Debtors who moved from Louisiana to West Virginia could apply Louisiana bankruptcy exemptions to property located in West Virginia, because federal law allowed the debtors to choose a state exemption scheme, and Louisiana law is not limited to in-state property. ...

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