injunctive relief

The Second Circuit has rejected a $150,000 cap on individual donations to political action committees and independent-expenditure groups, Newsday reports. The ruling rises out of legsl action by supporters for NYC Republican Mayoral Candidate Joe Lhota.

The court granted injunctive relief on the grounds of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United holding "that the government has no anti-corruption interest in limited independent expenditures," The New York Law Journal reported. Their story:  http://www.law.com/jsp/law/index.jsp#ixzz2ijtPbEjn

Reuters reports on a trial opening this week in which Chevron is seeking injunctive relief against a plaintiff's lawyer and some of his clients: "Chevron Corp will try to convince a U.S. judge this week that a group of Ecuadorean villagers and their U.S. lawyer used bribery to win an $18 billion judgment against Chevron from a court in Ecuador, in the latest chapter in a long-running fight over pollution in the Amazon jungle."

While Ohio bans same-sex marriages, a judge has ruled that a valid same-sex marriage entered into in another state must be recognized on a death certificate. Ohio recognizes marriages from other states that it would not allow under its own law, the judge said, so same-sex marriages must be given the same comity and full-faith credit. “This is not a complicated case,” the judge wrote, according to the Gay People's Chronicle. “The issue is whether the state of Ohio can discriminate against same sex marriages lawfully solemnized out of state, when Ohio law has historically and unambiguously provided that the validity of a marriage is determined by whether it complies with the law of the jurisdiction where it was celebrated.”