If regulators reject Google's bid, it stands to lose all that cash and face costly settlements in ongoing legal attacks.

如果联邦交易委员会（Federal Trade Commission）否决了谷歌的出价，它不仅有可能损失25亿美元的现金，而且还要为眼下的官司支付高昂的和解费用。

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Even Clint Bolick of the Goldwater Institute, a conservative think-tank co-ordinating many of these legal attacks, has admitted that this assault on Obamacare "faces very tough odds".

金水协会是保守智库，其成员克林特波立克协调过许多这样的法律诉讼，他甚至已经承认，对奥巴马医改法案的诉讼胜算很低。

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I welcome the media Legal Defence Initiative, which will help the media to fight these attacks and fills an important gap.

我对媒体法律保护倡议的成立表示欢迎。它将填补这一空白，为媒体反击对新闻自由压制提供有效帮助。

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who has become one of the most prominent Republican critics of the Obama White House, said the Bush administration acted within legal guidelines to keep America safe after the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States.

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Lacking a real lobby, the press is vulnerable to legal attacks.

ECONOMIST: A spider's web of hidden controls

On top of this, the fact that a relatively small group of people are actually sharing files makes Gnutella and similar systems more vulnerable to legal attacks than is generally assumed.

ECONOMIST: Online file-sharing

But no fewer than 28 states, not to mention various other organisations such as the National Federation of Independent Business, have launched legal attacks on the bill, claiming the mandate is unconstitutional.

ECONOMIST: American health care in limbo