Nicole Kidman headlines 39th Mill Valley Film Festival
Nicole Kidman headlines 39th Mill Valley Film Festival The Mill Valley Film Festival revealed its biggest coup as it unveiled its full lineup Monday night for the 39th festival, which runs Oct. 6-16 at...
View ArticleUnited States: Louisiana Supreme Court Adopts Pro Rata Allocation Of Defense...
The Louisiana Supreme Court has held that an insurer's responsibility for defense costs in a long-latency disease case is limited to a pro rata share based on its time on the risk. Reported by Mondaq 2...
View ArticleUnited States: California Supreme Court Approves Attorney Fee Awards...
The California Supreme Court held that when attorney fees are awarded to class counsel from a common fund, the award is not per se unreasonable because it is calculated as a percentage of the common...
View ArticleDespite A Century Of Women's Rights Progress, Hillary Clinton Still Faces...
*I*t has been 100 years since the voters of Montana elected Jeannette Rankin as the first woman in Congress and Margaret Sanger opened the nation's first birth control clinic in Brooklyn (1916); 96...
View ArticleCauvery row: 30 buses torched, K'taka on edge
The Centre on Monday rushed ten companies comprising 1,000 personnel of the special anti-riot paramilitary force RAF to Karnataka as widespread violence broke out at several places in the state over...
View Article#CauveryIssue: How Twitter condemned the violence in Bengaluru
As the Cauvery water sharing row raged, violence flared up in the city with rampaging mobs setting fire to at least 30 buses and trucks with Tamil Nadu registration number plate and bringing the...
View ArticleJayalalithaa writes to Siddaramaiah urging protection of Tamilians in Karnataka
Describing the violence in Karnataka as "alarming", Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday wrote to her counterpart in the neighbouring state, Siddaramaiah, seeking protection to Tamil...
View ArticleBrazil's former speaker faces ouster from Congress over Swiss accounts
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Two weeks after the removal of Dilma Rousseff as Brazil's president, the lower house of Congress will meet Monday to vote on whether to expel the lawmaker who engineered her...
View ArticleArunachal Governor Rajkhowa dumped as he didn't execute BJP's agenda: Congress
Congress on Monday said BJP government has "dumped" Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa, who was removed as Arunachal Pradesh Governor this evening, after his "utility was over" and he did not execute the "insidious...
View ArticleBengaluru burns over Cauvery: One dead as Rajnath Singh assures Centre’s...
What started as a sporadic and an isolated incident, became a raging and a fiery protest by the end of Monday in Bengaluru. The IT-capital witnessed frenzied mobs vandalising public property and...
View ArticleOne killed in police firing in Bengaluru
One person was killed and five others injured when police opened fire on a rioting mob in northwest Bengaluru on Monday evening. Widespread violence broke out at several places in Karnataka over the...
View ArticleCauvery row: Police open fire on mob, one dead in Bengaluru
One person was killed and five others injured when police opened fire on a rioting mob in northwest Bengaluru on Monday evening. Widespread violence broke out at several places in Karnataka over the...
View ArticleColorado Supreme Court set to hear appeal over legal services being treated...
The Colorado Supreme Court will decide whether volunteer legal help to those engaged in political speech must be treated as political contributions under state campaign finance laws. Reported by Denver...
View ArticleRematch in Alaska: Daddy's Girl vs. Sarah Palin's Boy
After serving as Alaska's junior United States Senator for twenty-two years, in 2002 Frank Murkowski was elected governor of Alaska. As governor, Frank's first action was to dumbfound Alaskans by...
View ArticleViolence Erupts in Southern India Over Order to Share Water
Protesters in Bangalore threw rocks and set fire to vehicles after the Indian Supreme Court ordered Karnataka State to release river water to neighboring Tamil Nadu. Reported by NYTimes.com 13 minutes...
View ArticleAustrian court refers Facebook privacy case to European court
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's Supreme Court on Monday referred to the European Court of Justice a class action case brought against Facebook by an Austrian law student over privacy issues. Reported by...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court leaves Ohio voting restrictions in place
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to reinstate for the Nov. 8 general election Ohio’s so-called Golden Week voting procedures, when people could register and cast ballots in the same week, that...
View ArticleSupreme Court Won't Rescue 'Golden Week' Of Early Voting In Ohio
The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away an effort by Ohio Democratic groups that sought to restore a special week that allowed voters to register and vote early on the same day. In a brief order, the...
View ArticleSupreme Court turns down Ohio Democrats' bid to restore 'golden week' of...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a plea from Ohio Democrats who had sought to restore an extra week of early voting that was used by more than 80,000 people in their state to cast ballots...
View ArticleCanada: Becker v. Becker: Testamentary Capacity - Miller Thomson LLP
In Becker v. Becker, the Supreme Court of British Columbia considered whether a testator who had been hospitalized with an inoperable brain tumour had the requisite testamentary capacity Reported by...
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