The U.S. Supreme Court reported on two cases.
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In a pension case, the justices said they will hear appeals by the Federal Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. and a Teamsters union local over a lower court ruling that invalidated part of a 1980 law designed to discourage withdrawal from multi-employer pension plans. In the second case, dubbed “King Kong Meets Donkey Kong,” the court let stand without comment a ruling that Los Angeles-based Universal City Studios must pay $1.5 million to Nintendo Co. of Japan. Universal lost a federal lawsuit that charged Nintendo with infringing the movie company’s King Kong trademark by marketing the hit video game, Donkey Kong.
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