Lawyers

• 'Dusky Gopher Frog' Case Falls on Deaf Ears at Appeals Court

  News circulating around the finding of an endangered species of frog has been refused for revival by court officials, making the future for the species critical.

• Court Of Appeals Seventh Circuit Denies Petition For Fitzpatrick Who Violated Law On Voting For Federal Officials

  The United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit has sentenced Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick to leave the United States in violation of the 18 U.S.C. §611 and 8 U.S.C. §1227(a)(6) while denying review of petition from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This is due to Fitzpatrick's unlawful votes on two elections for federal officials.

• American Court orders to hold Rule Preventing Dialysis Patients from using Charitable Assistance to Purchase Private Insurance

  The unfair ruling of the new law preventing dialysis patients from using charitable assistance in purchasing insurances is put on hold. If this rule is passed, Almost all dialysis won't have full treatment anymore.

• Court of Appeals revive anti-trust lawsuit against Apple

  A long standing legal battle between iPhone users and the Apple company has been revived by the Court of Appeals. The case which was filed in 2012 is weighing in on Apple's monopolization of the marketplace.

• NFL Team Redskins Requested Supreme Court to Review Its Trademark Case

  Three-times NFL champion Washington Redskins filed petition to ask the US Supreme Court to evaluate its brand name case. The controversy surrounding the name arose in 2014.

• Budget writers to close out an agreement on courts over legal funding

  House and Senate justice budget writers appear within striking range of a deal to reconcile their proposals, which sat at $3.5 million.

• US court of appeals vacates conviction of Palestinian activist

  A US court of appeals vacated the conviction of a Palestinian activist charged with immigration fraud for failing to tell US officials she had been imprisoned in Israel for bombing a supermarket that killed two people.

• U.S. court appeals says Colorado can enforce its Amazon tax law

  Amazon declared that they will be charging sales tax to Colorado customers, starting on February 1, 2016. The U.S. court appeals decided to endorse a Colorado law that will make the collection of sales taxes on the state easier.

• U.S. court of appeals considers if drone strikes count as intelligence in ACLU case

  The ACLU has been fighting for years to release the CIA list of drone killings. With that, US court considered if the U.S. government must disclose more details about its deadly drone operations.

• Mississippi death penalty on hold; US Court of Appeals denied executions blocking

  On Wednesday, an appeals court upheld Mississippi's method of lethal injection and rejected arguments from death row inmates who is against the state's plan to use drugs not specifically approved by state law.

• Atheists want “In God We Trust” removed from U.S. currency; Lawsuit claims phrase ludicrous, legally flawed, pro-Christian bias

  A petition was filed by a dedicated group of atheists, stating that they want the phrase "In God We Trust" from all US currency.

• Appeals court upholds earlier decision to impose billion-dollar fines on BP, Anadarko over oil spill

  Bloomberg said BP Plc and Anadarko Petroleum Corp could be fined in billions of dollars after an appeals court sided with a lower court decision that would allow the US government to seek maximum fines over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

• Appeals court approves Texas prisoner's request to delay lethal execution

  The lawyers of Texas death row inmate Robert Campbell has won the postponement of their client's scheduled lethal execution following the botched execution of Oklahoma condemned inmate Clayton Lockett, Bloomberg reported.

• Oracle to revive verdict or order new trial in SAP copying case

  Oracle Corp argued in their appeal to revive a favorable 2010 verdict or new trial over the copyright claims against SAP AG that the data used to arrived at the $1.3 billion award were based on stimates about the infringed software's fair market value and the detailed financial information about the software's estimated earnings from both parties, Bloomberg reported.

• Gay couples claims Ohio marriage ban is unconstitutional

  Businessweek said six couples have recently sought legal action against the state of Ohio for its "unconstitutional" law that bans the recognition of same-sex marriages.

• NCAA files petition to delay collegiate player compensation trial until resolution of earlier cases

  According to an April 25 filing, it made sense to wait for the US Supreme Court decision on whether the appearances and images are covered under the US Constitution's First Amendment under free speech.

• Hedge fund managers' appeal questions US government's success in insider trading cases

  Should the US Court of Appeals decides to overturn the convictions of Level Global Investors LP co-founder Anthony Chiasson and ex-Diamondback Capital Management LLC portfolio manager Todd Newman, Bloomberg said that the insider trading conviction of SAC Capital Advisors LP fund manager Michael Steinberg might be in danger of getting reversed as well.

• Appeals court rejects Lavabit bid to lift Fourth Circuit sanctions

  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.

• Apple claims ignorance in e-book price-fixing by its own publishers in appeal

  In its filing with the US Court of Appeals in New York yesterday, Apple Inc claimed that it has no knowledge that the publishers mentioned in the anti-trust lawsuit lodged against them have conspired to manipulate e-book prices.