Cases in the court's upcoming session include two suits to determine the legitimacy of patents, a case that will help determine the scope of federal jurisdiction in civil lawsuits, and a challenge by Waste Management to a Mississippi ordinance limiting where it can dispose of solid waste.
Cases in the court's upcoming session include two suits to determine the legitimacy of patents, a case that will help determine the scope of federal jurisdiction in civil lawsuits, and a challenge by Waste Management (nyse: WMI - news - people ) to a Mississippi ordinance limiting where it can dispose of solid waste.
"These people would redesign Microsoft products, confiscate Microsoft intellectual property and extend of the scope of the decree to markets not in this case or are in the infancy of innovation, " he said with more than a little emotion.
The scope of such schemes, in any case, is limited to solving environmental problems caused by, and felt by, the community itself.
In seeking to balance the supposed necessity of finality against the obvious need to protect the innocent from all-too-frequent errors, the case probes the viability and scope of the constitutionally-protected writ of habeas corpus, the procedural device for reviewing otherwise final judgments based on newly-discovered evidence.
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In a ruling issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard said this was no longer the case, citing case law that had narrowed the scope of the Privacy Act over the ensuing three decades and no longer supported such a broad injunction.
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It would be for the courts to decide case by case whether alleged offences fell within the scope of the bill, he said.
The Siemens case was a compliance scandal of unprecedented scope.
The answer in almost every case is for such institutions to redefine their scope based on clear measures of effectiveness--in other words, work where you can add value.
"Sometimes charges get made that exceed the scope of the actual events, " Garland said, adding that he and his client plan to resolve the case without it going to trial.
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