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DISMISSED. A LAWSUIT demanding damages by 188 plaintiffs offended by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's three visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors soldiers killed in past wars, among them 14 Class-A war criminals; by the Osaka High Court; in Osaka. Although the court rejected the demands for nominal payments of $90 per plaintiff from Koizumi, the Japanese government and the shrine, its judgment also said that the prime minister's visits?which routinely roil relations with China and South Korea by rekindling resentment of Japanese wartime atrocities?violate a constitutional requirement calling for the separation of church...
...tenured professor at University of Pennsylvania Law School, Burbank is the lead plaintiff in a suit that has been placed on hold while the Supreme Court considers the FAIR case...
...nothing else, analysts say, the verdict constitutes a stern rebuke to Big Pharma. Jurors heard plenty from the plaintiff's lawyers about Merck's aggressive sales and marketing tactics and about a corporate culture that, they claimed, prizes profits over honest science. Merck, however, is hardly alone in being accused of such things. Wyeth, for one, has set aside $21 billion to pay for claims stemming from fen-phen, its faulty diet-drug combo. Analysts estimate that Merck could be on the hook for more than $18 billion in Vioxx damages...
...Violence Against Women Act and part of the Brady gun-control law. Conservatives have cheered this as a virtual revolution--although O'Connor, in keeping with her trademark case-by-case approach, has departed from an absolutist position at times. She was on the side of the plaintiff in Tennessee v. Lane, a 2004 decision upholding part of the Americans with Disabilities Act and requiring courtrooms to be accessible to those with physical disabilities. And most famously, she voted in 2000 to step into Florida's disputed presidential balloting and stop the recount, giving the election to George W. Bush...
...three years in the state's high schools. University of Missouri--Kansas City law professor Kris Kobach, counsel for 24 out-of-state students challenging the law, says this still violates the federal statute as well as the Constitution's equal-protection clause by "discriminating against U.S. citizens." Says plaintiff Heidi Hydeman, an Iowan who paid out-of-state fees (now $12,691 a year, vs. $4,737 in-state) to attend K.U.: "It's just not fair." A judge is expected to rule this month...