A bankruptcy lawyer said that the judge who has handled General Motors CO's 2009 Chapter 11 case will need to determine whether the automaker was aware of the defects in its small cars prior to filing for bankruptcy before deeming that the "new" GM is liable to the 37 lawsuits filed against the company regarding the vehicle recall.
US Court of Appeals had refused to overturn a district court ruling against secure mail service provider Lavabit as it had deemed that the new arguments presented by Ladar Levison's company were not raised in the original case, ZDNet said.
First reported by newspaper the Bergen Record, CBS News said that Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, whom New Jersey Governor Chris Christie tapped to conduct an internal probe on "Bridgegate," has made a $10,000 donation to a political group the governor chairs.
US District Judge Daniel Hovland said that the North Dakota law on abortion, which allows women to terminate pregnancies as early as into their sixth week, is unconstitutional and invalid, The Bismarck Tribune said.
