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Second Circuit Upholds District Court Decision to Dismiss Arbitration Case
2015-12-10 06:00:01| Automakers - Topix.net
On November 19, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the Southern District of New York's decision to dismiss a case alleging that two leading credit card issuing banks schemed to require that disputes be settled in arbitration, as opposed to class action lawsuits. The plaintiffs challenged the District Court's decision on the grounds that language in United States v.
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Missouri Appellate Court Upholds Disproportionate Punitive Award...
2015-11-24 20:27:15| Auto Parts - Topix.net
As we noted in a post earlier this year, the Missouri courts seem to produce more than their fair share of opinions on punitive damages issues. About a year ago we wrote a post addressing the errors in the Missouri Supreme Court's excessiveness analysis in Lewellen v.
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Eighth Circuit Upholds FERC Rule on Co-op Avoided Cost Rates
2015-10-10 14:22:12| Energy - Topix.net
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has upheld the long-standing determination by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that the avoided cost rate paid by a distribution cooperative for energy purchased from a qualifying cogeneration or small power production facility is the same as the avoided cost rate of the distribution co-op's generation and transmission all-requirements supplier. In doing so, the Eighth Circuit did not break any new ground.
U.N. Upholds Human Rights, World Bank Dismisses Them
2015-10-09 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The United Nations has always remained one of the most vociferous and passionate advocates of human rights - exemplified in the creation in 2006 of a 47-member Human Rights Council in Geneva to uphold its mandate. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. Credit: OECD But, in its own political yard, a member of its extended family, namely the World Bank, is apparently working at cross-purposes. Philip Alston, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, has lambasted the World...
U.S. GAO upholds Harris protest about FBI contract plan Tuesday, October 6
2015-10-07 07:54:27| Telecom - Topix.net
The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Tuesday upheld a protest by Harris Corp filed against the FBI's plans to award a sole-source contract to rival Motorola Solutions Inc for two-way radios under a larger umbrella contract. The congressional agency said the FBI violated federal regulations when it notified vendors that it planned to award two contracts worth $335 million to Motorola, shutting out four other companies that were authorized to supply equipment under a bigger contract with the Department of Homeland Security.
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