He’s rising to the challenge of his rival, as the lyrics go — but Newt Gingrich might want to reconsider using the song “ Eye of the Tiger ”at rallies. A songwriter from the group Survivor has filed a lawsuit to prevent Gingrich from using the song for his entrance theme at rallies. Mitt Romney has also used the song at rallies, but he was not named in the suit. Read full article > >

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A federal judge denied a request Friday to add four presidential candidates to Virginia’s Republican primary ballot. U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney Jr. indicated he thought a provision requiring candidates to only use state residents to gather signatures was unconstitutional, but none of the candidates had collected the required 10,000 regardless. Read full article > >

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The families of four US citizens violently killed in Iraq in 2004 settle a long-running lawsuit with Blackwater, the US security firm that hired them.

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Google acquires an additional 217 patents from IBM as it continues to spend billions on bolstering its defences against lawsuits from its rivals.

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Updated at 3 p.m. AT&T and T-Mobile on Monday asked a federal judge to postpone an antitrust lawsuit as the companies were assessing “whether and how” to proceed with their $39 billion mega-merger. The announcement signals that the deal as originally conceived is all but dead. The two companies could still seek ways to retool the terms to address the concerns of regulators. Read full article > >

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TEHRAN — Iranian military experts are in the final stages of extracting data from a sophisticated U.S. drone brought down by the Iranian armed forces, a lawmaker said Monday. In Washington, President Obama said Monday that the United States has asked Iran to return the drone. Parviz Sorouri, a key member of the parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee, told Iranian state television that the extracted information would be used to file a lawsuit against the United States over the “invasion” by the unmanned aircraft. Read full article > >

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A dozen nurses in New Jersey have rekindled the contentious debate over when health-care workers can refuse to play a role in caring for women getting abortions. In a lawsuit filed in federal court Oct. 31, 12 nurses charge that the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey violated state and federal laws by abruptly announcing in September that nurses would have to help with abortion patients before and after the procedure, reversing a long-standing policy exempting employees who refuse based on religious or moral objections. Read full article > >

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Trade groups representing retailers, convenience stores and grocers filed a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve, asserting that an additional variable fee violates the law.

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Trade groups representing retailers, convenience stores and grocers filed a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve, asserting that an additional variable fee violates the law.

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SALT LAKE CITY — Microsoft’s Bill Gates took the witness stand Monday in a $1 billion antitrust lawsuit accusing the software maker of duping a competitor prior to its rollout of Windows 95. Gates, wearing a gray suit and a yellow tie, was the first witness to testify as Microsoft lawyers presented their case in the trial that’s been ongoing in federal court in Salt Lake City for about a month. Read full article > >

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The NBA ’s more than four-month long labor dispute effectively moved from debates in plush hotels to arguments in a courthouse when the players’ union disbanded in an effort to file an antitrust lawsuit against the NBA. And on Tuesday, players hit the league with separate antitrust complaints in Minnesota and the Northern District of California in an effort to prove that the lockout is illegal. Read full article > >

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A soy-based diet, which saves the Florida Corrections Department money, is endangering prisoners’ health, an inmate’s lawsuit says.

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LG agrees to pay US-based patent aggregator Intellectual Ventures for licence rights to help protect itself against lawsuits.

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