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  • June 28, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Patent Reform Bill Amendment Could Save Wilmer and its Insurers $214 Million in Medicines Co. Deadline Spat

    We've been keeping an eye on the patent reform bill's interminable slog through Congress, but maybe we should be watching t

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  • March 31, 2005 | National Law Journal

    GCs Call for Greater Diversity Among Top-Tier Firms

    General counsel have some advice for law firms that say they are trying to diversify their ranks by hiring minorities: Try harder.Although many firms vow that diversity is a top priori

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  • The Wilderness Society v. United States Forest Service

    Publication Date: 2011-01-14
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    Date Filed: 2011-01-14
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Edward J. Lodge, District Judge, Presiding Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Mary M. Schroeder, Harry Pregerson, Stephen Reinhardt, Pamela Ann Rymer, Barry G. Silverman, Susan P. Graber, M. Margaret McKeown, Kim McLane Wardlaw, Johnnie B. Rawlinson and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Bahr, Megan O?Reilly (argued), and Erik Schlenker-Goodrich of Western Environmental Law Center (Taos, New Mexico and Eugene, Oregon), and Scott W. Reed (Coeur d?Alene, Idaho) for the appellees.
    for defendant: Paul A. Turcke (argued) of Moore Smith Buxton & Turcke (Boise, Idaho), for the appellants. Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General, Aaron Avila, and Katherine W. Hazard of the U.S. Department of Justice (Washington, D.C.) for amicus United States. Paul L. Gale (argued), Erik M. Pritchard, and Jacqueline S. Treu of Troutman Sanders LLP (Irvine, California) for amici Motorcycle Industry Council and Specialty Vehicle Institute of America. Jeffrey W. Leppo and Jason T. Morgan of Stoel Rives LLP (Seattle, Washington) for amicus The Alaska Oil and Gas Association. Ronald S. Yockim (Roseburg, Oregon) for amici Coos County, Grant County, Harney County, and Wallowa County. Roger R. Martella, Jr., Peter R. Steeland, Jr., and Matthew D. Krueger of Sidley Austin LLP (Washington, D.C.), for amici American Petroleum Institute, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Croplife America, National Association of Manufacturers, and National Petrochemical and Refiners Association. Michael B. Wigmore and Sandra P. Franco of Bingham McCutchen LLP (Washington, D.C.), for amicus Western States Petroleum Association. Elizabeth E. Howard and Dominic M. Carollo of Dunn Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue LLP (Portland, Oregon) for amici Steens Mountain Landowner Group, Oregon Cattlemen?s Association, Oregon Cattlemen?s Public Lands Committee, Oregon Farm Bureau Federation, Public Lands Council, and National Cattlemen?s Beef Association. Anna M. Seidman and Douglas S. Burdin of Safari Club International (Washington, D.C.), for amicus Safari Club International. Murray D. Feldman and William G. Myers III of Holland & Hart LLP (Boise, Idaho) and Dana R. Walsh of Southern Nevada Water Authority (Las Vegas, Nevada), for amicus Southern Nevada Water Authority. Albert M. Ferlo, Donald C. Baur, and Guy R. Martin of Perkins Coie LLP (Washington, D.C.), for amicus Western Urban Water Coalition. Julie A. Weis and Christopher Lundberg of Haglund Kelly Horngren Jones & Wilder LLP (Portland, Oregon), William K. Barquin, Attorney General of Kootenai Tribe of Idaho (Bonners Ferry, Idaho), Stuart M. Levit and John Harrison of Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (Pablo, Montana), Brett Kenney of Coquille Indian Tribe (North Bend, Oregon), David C. Bonga of Kalispel Tribe (Airway Heights, Washington), William Bacon of Shoshone-Bannock Tribes (Fort Hall, Idaho), and Catherine Tufts of Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians (Siletz, Oregon), for amici Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Coquille Indian Tribe, Kalispel Tribe, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, and Metlakatla Indian Community. David F. Hensley, Counsel to the Governor (Boise, Idaho) and Thomas C. Perry of Idaho Governor?s Office of Species Conservation (Boise, Idaho), and L. Michael Bogert and Amy B. Chasanov of Crowell & Moring LLP (Washington, D.C.), for amici C.L. ?Butch? Otter, Governor of Idaho and Idaho Governor?s Office of Species Conservation. Daniel S. Sullivan, Attorney General of State of Alaska, and Lance B. Nelson of Office of the Alaska Attorney General (Anchorage, Alaska), for amicus State of Alaska. Scott W. Horngren of American Forest Resource Council (Portland, Oregon), for amici Alaska Forest Association and Douglas Timber Operators. Mark C. Rutzick of Mark C. Rutzick, Inc. (Oak Hill, Virginia), for amicus American Forest Resource Council.
    Case Number: No. 09-35200

    Cite as 11 C.D.O.S. 591THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY; PRAIRIE FALCON AUDUBON, INC., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v.UNITED STAT

  • March 24, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Thwarting Requests by Research Universities and Biotechs, Federal Circuit Reaffirms 'Written Description' Requirement for Patents

    When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided to hear Ariad Pharmaceuticals v. Eli Lilly en banc, it called for amici to submit briefs addressing the question of whether patent applic

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  • February 22, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Ugly Racial Slurs Not Enough to Force $10M Payout for DynCorp

    Exactly how bad does corporate race discrimination have to be before it merits punitive damages? Shockingly bad, if an unpublished 67-p

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  • April 8, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Nicolaou v. Horizon Media, Inc.

    Decided March 28, 2005Before Pooler, Sack, and Raggi, C.JJ. Appeal from a decision and order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Barbara S. J

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  • September 13, 1999 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Paper Company Settlement Approved, But Fees Slashed

    Vice Chancellor Stephen Lamb approved Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.'s settlement of shareholders' lawsuits over the $5.8 billion acquisition that created the U.S.'s fourth-largest paper company las

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  • January 6, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Judge Posner Tweaks Twombly in Seventh Circuit Refusal to Dismiss Text Message Price Fixing Class Action

    Boy was Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit eager to weigh in on antitrust pleading standards in the post-Twombly age! A mere four weeks after several wirele

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  • January 5, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Eighth Circuit to Baycol Plaintiffs: There Are No Do-Overs in the Class Action Game

    You can't go running to state court for class certification after a federal MDL judge denies certification of your class. So ruled the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in a href="http://d

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  • July 3, 2012 | Litigation Daily

    Schulte Roth Loses Bid to Wipe Out $20.6 Million Goldman Arbitration Award

    Eighteen months after U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff set off alarm bells on Wall Street by concluding that Goldman Sachs must pay mor

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