Appeals Court Rejects ABB Asbestos Plan
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ZURICH/NEW YORK  - A U.S. appeals court on  Thursday rejected ABB's ABBN.VX ABB.N bid for a $1.2  billion asbestos settlement that would end years of legal  wrangling and put a cap on asbestos claims filed by thousands  of former workers.
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A federal appeals court has rejected the Bush administration&#39;s request for a new hearing on Attorney General John Ashcroft&#39;s attempt to shut down Oregon&#39;s assisted-suicide law by punishing doctors who prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients.
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The US Supreme Court Monday rejected a challenge to the Massachusetts Supreme Court&#39;s ruling in favor of gay marriage. The rejection of review by the nation&#39;s highest court
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Refusing to wade into the debate over gay marriage in Massachusetts, the US Supreme Court yesterday rejected a bid to overturn a landmark court ruling legalizing gay marriage in the Bay State.
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A federal judge has rejected efforts by International Business Machines Corp. to dismiss a major portion of a lawsuit brought by SCO Group accusing the computer giant of copyright infringement.
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Sports promoters failed to overturn an NCAA rule limiting tournament appearances involving Division I basketball teams when an appeals court rejected their antitrust suit Monday.
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A federal appeals court rejected a bid to free Barry Bonds 's personal trainer, who has been jailed for refusing to testify to a grand jury.
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A federal appeals court yesterday threw out the Environmental Protection Agency's approach to limiting mercury emitted from power-plant smokestacks, saying the agency ignored laws and twisted logic when it imposed new standards that were favorable to plant owners.
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A U.S. federal appeals court denied a petition from music webcaster associations for an emergency stay of new royalty rates.
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A state appeals court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by a boy who wanted to compete on his high school's girls' gymnastics team.
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The High Court has turned down an appeal by Air New Zealand and Qantas over their proposed merger. The airlines had appealed to the court over the Commerce Commission&#39;s earlier decision to decline Qantas&#39;s
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A federal judge in Dallas rejected a US$6 million settlement proposal on Friday in a securities class-action lawsuit against the Halliburton Co, expressing concern that it was neither fair nor adequate.
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Michael Stone loses his appeal against his convictions for the murders of Lin Russell and her daughter Megan.
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Lawyers for the father of Misbah Rana lodge an appeal against a court order to send her back to Scotland.
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A compensation fund for Australian asbestos victims of embattled James Hardie Industries NV said it was filing for liquidation, rejecting a last-minute multi-million dollar cash injection.
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A Hong Kong court has rejected an appeal by a man who had been jailed in what was the world's first prison sentence for distributing movie files over the popular online BitTorrent Internet network.
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ABB Ltd., the Swiss-Swedish electrical engineering giant, said Thursday it had lost its bid to have a U.S. appeals court partially review its $1.2 billion asbestos-claims settlement.