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WhatsApp Goes Through Judicial Revolving Door in Brazil
2016-05-03 23:59:52| TechNewsWorld
A Brazilian court on Tuesday overturned a different court's Monday order that blocked WhatsApp, the messaging site owned by Facebook, amid a criminal investigation into drug trafficking in the state of Sergipe. The earlier judicial demand that WhatsApp provide data considered critical to the investigation came soon after a ramp-up in the level of encryption built into the app.
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Feds Defend Fracking Rule Against Judicial Hold
2016-03-23 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Obama administration is fighting in federal court to defend its hydraulic fracturing (fracking) rule, saying a lower court committed a legal error when it put the regulation on hold. Lawyers representing the Interior Departments Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are asking the Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver to overturn a Wyoming-based courts decision last year to halt the rule and allow regulators to enforce it. That judicial injunction stemmed from the arguments from various...
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U.S., Alaska close judicial actions from 1989 Exxon Valdez spill
2015-11-30 23:25:45| Chemicals - Topix.net
Wildlife recovery in Prince William Sound has been extensive enough to warrant closing federal and state legal actions against Exxon Mobil from the 1989 crude oil spill from the Exxon Valdez tanker, the Justice Department and Alaska Department of Law say. A 1991 civil settlement required XOM to pay the U.S. and Alaska governments $900M over 10 years to reimburse past costs and fund restoration of injured natural resources.
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Judicial Follies
2015-04-12 19:31:35| Air Courier - Topix.net
Last month, New York federal District Judge William Pauley filed an order in a dispute between United Parcel Service and several members of a family who operated eleven UPS franchises in New York State. Judge Pauley spent part of his order discussing and resolving the various legal issues between the parties - and a lot of it complaining about the sheer size of the documents that the two sides' lawyers kept filing in his court.
Judicial Follies
2015-04-12 19:11:50| Trucking - Topix.net
Last month, New York federal District Judge William Pauley filed an order in a dispute between United Parcel Service and several members of a family who operated eleven UPS franchises in New York State. Judge Pauley spent part of his order discussing and resolving the various legal issues between the parties - and a lot of it complaining about the sheer size of the documents that the two sides' lawyers kept filing in his court.