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Negotiating a term sheet or other preliminary document can sometimes feel a bit like the Wild West: Local laws and unintended consequences can vary from town to town.

Federal bankruptcy, district and appellate courts are tightening their collective belts and trying to make do with what’s available.

Saying he wants his daughter Veronica to have a normal childhood, Dusten Brown announced Thursday that he is ending his lengthy court battle aimed at keeping the child in Oklahoma.

Evidence obtained by a federal park ranger who arrested a defendant on suspicion of drunken driving was admissible despite the fact that the arrest took place outside the national historic park to which the ranger was assigned.

New York’s ban on outdoor smoking in state parks was blocked by a judge after a smokers’-rights group argued that the Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation exceeded its authority.

A Hearst-owned television station failed to stop the online TV service Aereo Inc. from streaming video as it faces copyright-infringement lawsuits from broadcast TV networks.

Toyota Motor Corp. wasn’t at fault in a fatal accident in which a 66-year-old woman crashed her 2006 Camry into a tree after it sped out of control in the wrong direction on a one-way road.

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New Jersey can’t block same-sex marriages while it appeals a decision that overturned a statewide ban on such unions.

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The court’s decision appears to continue its trend of deferring to federal agencies’ statutory interpretations, encouraging incremental growth of federal agency power in this area.

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The case consolidates seven individual and group lawsuits.

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In some ways, the U.S. government began to reopen almost as soon as it shut down.