SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-- Online review site Yelp's star rating system does not make it responsible for negative reviews of businesses because it is based on user input, a federal
appeals court ruled on Monday, dismissing a libel lawsuit filed against Yelp by a Washington state locksmith company owner.
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state appeals court ruled in 2009 that property owners of Stuyvesant Town had illegally raised rents because of receiving J - 51 tax breaks.
A federal
appeals court ruled Thursday that an independent conservative group supporting Republican Joe Lhota for New York City Mayor can accept unlimited donations because New York State's limit on donations to independent political committees is likely unconstitutional, as the New York Times reports.
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U.S. Appeals Court ruling in a University of Chicago case has lowered the barrier for court review of claims by postdoctoral students and junior faculty that they have been denied financial rewards from discoveries in which they have participated.
A New
York appeals court ruled last year that a less comprehensive form of teacher evaluations used by New York City's Department of Education — known as Teacher Data Reports — must be disclosed under the state's Freedom of Information Law.
Teachers have no First Amendment free - speech protection for curricular decisions they make in the classroom, a federal
appeals court ruled last week.
The six former staff members, all of them women, who sued former Assemblyman Dennis Gabryszak for sexual harassment will
appeal a court ruling dismissing all or part of their lawsuits.
But a federal
appeals court ruled yesterday that Xenon improperly tried to cut its own licensing deal with Novartis, excluding WARF, to create SCD - based drugs.
This would be consistent with an influential federal
appeals court ruling late in 2007, which found that the administration of George W. Bush improperly ignored costs from global warming in setting gas - mileage standards for sport utility vehicles and small trucks.
The Ontario Court
of Appeal court ruled in favour of a lawyer accused of breaching the deemed undertaking rule yesterday but denied him costs because of his decision to stand as counsel in a case in which he was personally involved.
A federal
appeals court ruled for the first time that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBT employees from workplace discrimination, setting up a likely battle before the Supreme Court as gay rights advocates push to broaden the scope of the 53 - year - old law.
The fiduciary standard is getting a lot of attention in the United States once again as the Department of Labour's rule requiring advisors to act in the best interests of their clients was denied by an appeals court
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio explained why he has refused to comment on the
blockbuster appeals court ruling in favor of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, claiming he hasn't «paid attention» to the state's biggest political corruption case in decades.
Stuyvesand Town and City Council member Daniel GarodnickThe New York state
appeals court ruled today that tenants in the blockbuster lawsuit at Stuyvesant Town...
In August 2009, a federal
appeals court ruled with Union Carbide, claiming the victims lacked evidence of «factual causation.»
The e-discovery landscape continues to evolve, the recent
DC Appeals Court ruling (click here) presents yet another twist in the ongoing saga of cost of e-discovery.....
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Appeals Court Rules Counsel May «Google» Potential Jurors During Jury Selection»
Law enforcement officers in Washington, D.C. violated the Fourth Amendment when they used a cell site simulator to locate a suspect without a warrant, a
D.C. appeals court ruled on Thursday.
Strengthening the earlier ruling, the
Viennese appeals court ruled on Friday that Facebook (fb) must remove the postings against Greens leader Eva Glawischnig as well as any verbatim repostings, and said merely blocking them in Austria without deleting them for users abroad was not sufficient.
He repeated that he will not decide whether to approve Keystone until a
Nebraska Appeals court rules on the pipeline's route through the state.
The Los Angeles Times: Scientology did not violate forced labor law,
appeals court rules Scientology did not violate a labor law by failing to pay for the work of two former members of the church's Sea Organization - a wing that restricts participants» outside communications, marriage and children, censors mail and monitors phone calls - a federal appeals court said Tuesday.
School District That Held Graduations in Church
An appeals court ruled against a Wisconsin school district over its usage of a church building to hold graduations due to a lack of space in public school facilities.
ORLAND HILLS — A decision by Orland Park to
appeal a court ruling allowing Orland Hills to annex land both towns want has been called «a waste of taxpayers money» by the head of Orland Hills» finance committee.
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Manhattan appeals court ruled on Thursday in two separate lawsuits that a long - established but contentious provision of the New York civil rights code prevents the disciplinary records of city police officers from being publicly released.
Mr. de Blasio's administration failed to
appeal a court ruling obstructing the shopping center's construction by a deadline Wednesday, leaving Bloomberg - picked developers Related Companies and Sterling Equities to fight it out on their own.
A total of $ 21 million was collected from the state, but the Ninth
Circuit appeals court ruled that Collins had exceeded his authority and canceled the fines.
The rejection of the uncodified breed ban was prompted, in part, by a legal opinion of the city's attorneys who cited a 2007
Oklahoma appeals court ruling.
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