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Supreme Court to Discuss Health Care Law Nov. 10 – ABC News
The Supreme Court will meet behind closed doors Nov. 10 to discuss challenges to the health care law. The conference will mark the first time the justices consider whether to grant one of the five pending petitions regarding issues such … Continue reading
Supporters Of Health Overhaul Look To Reclaim ‘Obamacare’ – NPR News
“Thanks Obamacare.” Sounds like sarcasm, right? Sure, opponents of the federal law overhauling health care tagged it with the “Obamacare” moniker to belittle the measure even before it had passed. To many of them, the law is an ill-considered …
The Elephant in the Patent Courtroom – Law.com
At a recent conference in Texas, Chief Judge Randall Rader of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit addressed the challenges posed by the high costs of U.S. patent litigation. Rader proposed several approaches to reducing these costs … Continue reading
Australia Will Alter Tax Laws to Spur Infrastructure Investment – Bloomberg
Australia’s government released proposals to alter tax laws as they seek to make it more attractive for private investors, including the nation’s $1.3 trillion pension fund industry, to invest in infrastructure. The changes concern the …
Thorough analysis, not platitudes, should drive tax reform debate in Oklahoma – Daily Oklahoman
Momentum is building for a phaseout. Planting the flag on the mountaintop won’t be easy. Other items on the GOP agenda faced steep, uphill climbs — tort reform and workers’ comp reform, for example. Getting those out of the way … Continue reading
Health Insurance Industry OK With ObamaCare As Long As There’s a Mandate to Purchase Health Insurance – Reason.com
The brief makes it pretty clear how the health insurance industry perceives the law—as well as what it gets out of it: AHIP, which was generally supportive of reform during the debates that led to its passage, urges the Supreme … Continue reading
EU standing behind new law on plane emissions – Wichita Eagle
Earlier this month, Europe’s top court rejected a complaint by U.S. and Canadian airlines that the legislation breaches international law. On Monday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to exclude U.S. airlines from participating in the EU program.
Alan Stout appointed new bankruptcy court judge – The Business Journal
Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University in 1981. Stout previously has served as president of the board of directors of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees. He is married to Doris Stout, and they have three children and … Continue reading
RIM outage prompts class action suit – CBC Olympics
A Montreal law firm is launching a class action lawsuit against Research in Motion Ltd. on behalf of individuals who lost the use of their BlackBerry devices during a service outage earlier this month. Consumer Law Group Inc. filed a … Continue reading
Top Republican to outline corporate tax plan – Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior Republican tax writer is set to lay out more details of a plan for tax law changes, including letting multinational corporations pay little or no taxes on their overseas profits. Representative Dave Camp …
