Court: Microsoft OK to sell Word during appeal

The U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit says Microsoft Corp. can keep selling its Word desktop software as it appeals an unfavorable patent ruling.

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Dismissal of lawsuit over Sudan strikes upheld

An appeals court on Friday upheld a decision to dismiss a $50 million lawsuit against the United States over President Bill Clinton's 1998 decision to order missile strikes in Sudan.

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The Obama Administration wanted to send a message with the President's first nomination to a federal court. "There was a real conscious decision to use that first appointment to say, 'This is a new way of doing things.

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A state appellate court ruled Friday that Leo Schofield, convicted in 1989 of murdering his wife, deserves a hearing so that a judge can review important new evidence to decide if Schofield should get a second trial.

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Florida's strict ban on adoptions by gay people is going before a state appeals court.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Days before the start of Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings, a new national poll indicates that by a narrow margin, Americans would like the Senate to confirm her as the next Supreme Court justice.

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EXCERPT: In the first ruling of its kind, the California 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento held Wednesday that medical marijuana patients and growers can sue police for illegally raiding their properties and destroying their plants. The ruling came in County of Butte v.

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U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court U.S. SENATOR TOM COBURN (R-OK): Can you comment just about Sam Alito, and what he cares about, and let us see a little bit of your heart and what's important to you in life?

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A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a lawsuit brought by five men who say they were tortured as part of the Central Intelligence Agency's "extraordinary rendition" program could proceed, dealing a blow to efforts by both the Bush and Obama administrations to claim sw …

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A US government lawyer argued against revoking a high-profile travel ban on leading Oxford University Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan in a court appeal on Tuesday.

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just ordered Federal Health Insurance Benefits for same sex married couples. The case involves Deputy Federal Public Defender Brad Levenson, who married Tony Sears last July 12, and 9th Circuit staff lawyer Karen Golinski, who married Amy Cunni …

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New York Gov. David Paterson said on Wednesday he was "outraged" that no women were nominated to lead the state's Court of Appeals, its highest court, forcing him to choose from seven men recommended by a panel.

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The federal appeals court in Atlanta on Friday halted Troy Anthony Davis' execution, the third time his life has been spared shortly before he was to be put to death.

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A former Mississippi police officer, James Ford Seales, convicted in the 1964 kidnapping and conspiracy in the deaths of 2 African-American teenagers, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore from Franklin County has been set free by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Remember the Jena High School Beating of a White student, and the controversy it created? Well the controversy still rages as a Louisiana appeals court recuses Judge J.P. Mauffrey Jr the Lasalle Parish judge from the remaining "Jena Six" cases.

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It's not every day that Harry Pregerson and N. Randy Smith line up on the same side.

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After the first court review of the basis for holding a Guantánamo detainee, the federal appeals court in Washington has overturned the Pentagon's decision and ordered that the man be released or given a new military hearing.

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"The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit that a Texas girl's family filed against MySpace and its parent company, News Corp. The family said MySpace didn't protect young users from sexual predators.

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A woman born out of wedlock to a direct descendant of the family that struck it rich marketing Jell-O more than a century ago has been denied what she considers her just desserts.

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FindLaw guest columnist and U. Richmond law professor Carl Tobias criticizes the Bush Administration for failing to fill an open seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, despite the fact that the state's two U.S.

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Appeals Court Reverses Ruling Requiring Closure of Effective Prisoner Rehabilitation Program and Repayment of $1.5 Million to Iowa

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Judge Leslie Southwick to the federal appeals court in New Orleans after Republicans overpowered objections by Democrats who said he wasn't sensitive enough to the region's history of race relations.

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Just in case you're not clear on the difference: pornography is legal, protected speech, while obscenity has no protection. However, obscenity has to be determined in a court based on prevailing community standards.

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Kenny Richey, the Scottish national who has sat on Ohio's death row for more than 20 years, came one step closer to freedom yesterday when an American federal appeals court ruled - for the second time in two years - that he must be retried or released within the next 90 days.

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If President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney can blurt out vulgar language, then the government cannot punish broadcast television stations for broadcasting the same words in similarly fleeting contexts.

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Insurer Must Pay For Boy's Breast Reduction Surgery

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In 2004, two Florida adolescents--16-year-old Amber and 17-year-old Jeremy--took digital photos of themselves nude and engaged in some sort of sexual contact. They then sent the photos from a computer at Amber's house to Jeremy's email address.

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