Jack Davis, at his I Squared R Element Co. plant in Akron, won his U.S. Supreme Court appeal Thursday. The court agreed with Davis that setting different campaign contribution limits for candidates is unconstitutional. FILE PHOTO

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday in an appeal brought by Akron businessman Jack Davis that federal election-law provisions that impose different campaign contribution limits on candidates competing for the same congressional seat are unconstitutional.

The so-called “Millionaire’s Amendment” in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 relaxed fundraising limits for Congressional candidates when a self-financing opponent spends more than $350,000 of his or her personal funds.

“Robert H. Jackson: His Legacy & Times,” organized by the Robert H. Jackson Center and Phillips Lytle LLP, will be held from 9 to 10 a.m. every day this week in the Hall of Philosophy.

With new advances in technology, an increased need for managing large volumes of information in electronic format and the ever-changing rules of state and federal e-discovery, the role of the traditional paralegal is being transformed to a tech-savvy one.

A bill that would allow unrelated couples to obtain civil orders of protection through Family Court is likely to pass now that Gov. David Paterson and state legislators announced their agreement on the legislation Tuesday.

WASHINGTON— The nation’s largest immigration law firm is under federal scrutiny over whether it helped major U.S. corporations disqualify American job applicants and give thousands of high-paying positions to immigrants.

WASHINGTON— The Supreme Court on Wednesday slashed the $2.5 billion punitive-damages award in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the court’s first major pronouncement on gun rights.