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The idea that a corporation can have religious beliefs seems ludicrous on its face. There’s no end to what corporations could do — or rather, not do — in the guise of religion.

Tagged with: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Kansas won an appeals court decision that lets it block federal funds for two Planned Parenthood clinics that claimed the state was punishing the organization for its support of abortion rights.

Minutes after the harrowing search for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ended, a heated dialogue began over the legal strategy prosecutors planned to pursue in the case.

At issue is whether two family-owned companies are entitled to a religious exemption from the requirement that employers cover birth control as part of worker-insurance plans.

Tagged with: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

As the final hours of Malaysian Air Flight 370 remain wrapped in mystery, the question of who bears full liability for the jet’s disappearance is also unresolved.

The case involves a joint Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing by a married couple who sought to prevent an IRA from being included among their liquid assets that could be used to pay creditors.

Tagged with: IRA U.S. Supreme Court

Five years after President Barack Obama issued an executive order barring appointees from lobbying the executive branch for the rest of his presidency, administration officials are increasingly departing to join the advocacy industry.

Tagged with: Obama administration

The Supreme Court's ruling in Rosemond v. U.S. also provided the most detailed analysis of aiding and abetting liability in decades, which will likely serve as guidance for judges and attorneys in cases involving other state and federal complicity laws.

Tagged with: Aiding and Abetting U.S. Supreme Court

The Hollywood Reporter tells us that the league has now upped its nearly-two-year-old $1.5 million lawsuit against the rapper M.I.A. to $16.6 million in damages for having flipped the bird at halftime of Super Bowl XLVI in 2012.

The dual mission of honoring God and making money is at the core of an ideological showdown over President Barack Obama’s health-care law, set for argument before the U.S. Supreme Court next week.

Tagged with: U.S. Supreme Court

Raising money is the least — and the most — Obama can do for Democratic candidates in a tough midterm election this year.