A court-ordered search of vaults beneath a temple in India has turned up a treasure worth at least $11 billion, according to reports from the Indian state of Kerala. An inventory of what lies beneath the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, as reported on the website Business-... Read more...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday takes up a case examining whether a Vermont law that blocks access to prescription-drug records violates the free-speech rights of pharmaceutical companies. At issue is Vermont’s 2007 Prescription Confidentiality Law. The measure bars drug companies from ... Read more...
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that people using the aloe vera plant for medicinal purposes are not exempt from federal laws prohibiting use of the naturally occurring herb, which medical experts say can ease the suffering of burn victims. "It is clear from the text of the [co... Read more...
Thursday saw the end to a 5 year copyright infringement lawsuit being settled between major record labels and the popular file sharing service Limewire. In 2006, Limewire was accused through a lawsuit filing to be a web service “devoted essentially” to piracy by allowing person to downloa... Read more...
At the beginning of the civil rights era in May 1961, a racially mixed group of men and women traveled by bus together from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans to test compliance with Supreme Court rulings that had outlawed segregated waiting rooms, lunch counters and restroom facilities for intersta... Read more...
Anybody care? Yeah, me neither. It is what it is ...And then on top of that, the obama looking dude chokes... Read more...
The issues in this case are not merely problems with paperwork or a matter of dotting i’s and crossing t’s. Instead, they lie at the heart of the protections given to homeowners and borrowers… From the ruling The Too Big To Fail banks have been waiting with trepidation for a ruling from... Read more...
Blood samples taken from motorists without their explicit on-the-spot consent can't be used to convict them of drunken driving, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Monday. The justices acknowledged Arizona has an "implied consent" law saying motorists agree to provide a sample of blood, breath or uri... Read more...
By a 5-4 vote the Supreme Court modified the well-know Miranda Rights on Tuesday assuring that suspects will have to verbally express their right to remain silent. Under the new change it is no longer good enough for a suspect to just accept that he/she has the right to remain silent by r... Read more...