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Judge Strikes Down Williams Cos.s Poison Pill Takeover Defense
2021-02-27 00:20:00| OGI
Williams poison pill was found by a Delaware judge to be a disproportionate response to the threat that an activist investor might swoop in when the stock was at a low point during the start of the pandemic.
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Judge strikes down Michigan aid to private schools
2018-05-01 03:24:48| American School & University
Ruling states $2.5 million earmarked for private schools in both 2016 and 2017 violates constitutional ban on aid to non-public schools.
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Obama-Nominated Judge Strikes Down Fracking Rule
2016-06-22 13:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
US News: An Obama-appointed federal judge Tuesday rebuked one of the administration's first and most visible efforts to implement new environmental regulations for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the oil and gas drilling technique that helped unleash the nation's energy boom. Judge Scott Skavdahl, of the U.S. District Court of Wyoming, found an Interior Department rule released in March 2015 exceeded the administration's executive authority, siding with Republican critics who saw the regulation as overreach...
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Judge strikes language from lawsuit
2015-07-08 02:50:30| Food - Topix.net
Lawyers must edit out references to the Chinese government, the Communist Party and the country's People's Liberation Army from a lawsuit complaining that North Carolina neighbors of industrial hog farms have endured terrible smells for decades, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge W. Earl Britt agreed with industry lawyers that the references to Chinese ownership of a major U.S. pork producer are inflammatory and don't belong in the lawsuit.
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Judge strikes down another Colorado towns ban fracking
2014-08-07 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Business Journal: A Larimer County district judge on Thursday struck down a voter-approved, 5-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, and the storage of waste produced by the technique, within the borders of Fort Collins. Larimer County District Judge Gregory Lammons on Thursday ruled in favor of the summary judgment requested by the Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA), which had sued the city of Fort Collins after voters approved a ban on fracking in November 2013. The judge also denied a request for summary...
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