Sentences with phrase «early federal case law»

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That seems doomed to fail, as more than a century of case law dating back to the early days of the railroad suggests that provincial measures that directly thwart interprovincial infrastructure may be overruled by federal jurisdiction using 92 (10)(c) and this would be a prime example of when it should be (and has historically) been used.

I reported here in November that 1.8 million pages of federal case law would go public early in 2008 through an agreement between Carl Malamud's nonprofit organization Public.Resource.Org and the legal research company Fastcase.

The Federal Circuit, to which Apple appealed certain parts of the ruling earlier this month, is the circuit for all cases arising under U.S. patent law, while contract cases brought in the Western District of Wisconsin would usually be appealed to the Seventh Circuit.

In an earlier ruling on the merits of the case, the Federal Circuit upheld Judge Matsch's decision setting aside the jury's verdict in favor of Medtronic and granting judgment as a matter of law in favor of BrainLAB.

2) Early U.S. case law suggests that federal copyright law pre-empts any attempt by state contracting or licensing law to restrict or modify the federal copyright law.

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an important securities case addressing the scope of federal securities law claims based solely on omissions of material information.

In a case previously summarized in the The Letter of the Law, a New York federal court has considered whether a jury properly awarded damages to a handicapped individual who was alleging discrimination against an apartment - locating service - click here to read the earlier decision in this case.