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  • April 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Recipe for Disaster

    It had been a long day for Jeffrey Davidson. It was already past 5 p.m. on March 22, 2005, and the Kirkland & Ellis partner had spent hours questioning potential jurors. His client, Morgan

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  • In Re Wachovia Equity Securities Litigation, 08 Civ. 6171 (RJS)

    Publication Date: 2011-04-07
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Richard J. Sullivan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: The Equity Plaintiffs are represented by Ira M. Press, Andrew Martin McNeela, and Roger W. Kirby of Kirby McInerney LLP, New York, NY. The Stichting Plaintiffs are represented by Geoffrey Coyle, Jarvis, Jay W. Eisenhofer, and Michele S. Carino of Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A., New York, NY; and James Richard Banko of Grant & Eisenhofer, P A, Chase Manhattan Centre, Wilmington, DE. The FC Holdings Plaintiffs are represented by Daniel Arthur Cohen, Daniel Joseph Kornstein, and Amy Christine Gross of Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard, LLP, New York, NY; JefIrey H. Squire of Bracewell & Patterson, LLP, Washington, DC; and Paul D. Wexler of Bragar, Wexler & Eagel, P.C., New York, NY. The Bond/Notes Plaintiffs represented by John J. Gross, Christopher L. Nelson, David Kessler, John Anthony Kehoe, and Benjamin J. Sweet of Barrowav Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, P A; Nichole Browning and Eric Donald Peterson of Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP, San Francisco, CA; Ramzi Abadou, Maureen Elizabeth Mueller, Lucas F. Olts, and John J. Rice of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA; David Avi Rosenfeld of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Melville, NY; John Patrick Coffey, William Curtis Fredericks, Kurt Michael Hinciker, Christopher Chad Johnson, John James Rizio-Hamilton, and Jeroen Van Kwawegen of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, New York, NY; Jack Gerald Fruchter of Abraham Fruchter & Twersky LLP, New York, NY; Lionel Z. Glancy of Glancy & Binkow, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Michael Max Goldberg of the Law Offices of Michael Goldberg, New York, NY; Marc Ian Gross and Fei-Lu Qian of Pomerantz Haudek Block Grossman & Gross LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: The Wachovia Defendants are represented by Douglas H. Flaum, Eric A. Hirsch, Israel David, and John W. Brewer of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York, NY. The Underwriter Defendants are represented by Alfred Robert Pietrzak, Patrick Michael McGuirk, Owen Harris Smith, and Saima S. Ahmed of Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY. Defendant KPMG is represented by Emmet Thomas Flood of Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC and Marshall Beil of McGuireWoods LLP, New York, NY.
    Case Number: 08 Civ. 6171 (RJS)

    Cite as: In Re Wachovia Equity Securities Litigation, 08 Civ. 6171 (RJS), NYLJ 1202489220302, at *1 (SDNY, Decided March 31, 2011)District Judge Richard J. Sull

  • United States of America v. William J. Jefferson

    Publication Date: 2012-03-28
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    Date Filed: 2012-03-26
    Court: 4th Cir.
    Judge: King, Circuit Judge:
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    Case Number: 09-5130

    PUBLISHEDArgued: December 9, 2011Before NIEMEYER, KING, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge King wrote the opinion, in

  • James L. Derosa v. Randall G. Workman, Warden

    Publication Date: 2012-08-29
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    Date Filed: 2012-05-25
    Court: 10th Cir.
    Judge: Briscoe, Chief Judge.
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    Case Number: 10-7084

    United States Court of AppealsTenth CircuitPUBLISHElisabeth A. Shumaker Clerk of CourtBefore BRISCOE, Chief Judge, O'BRIEN and MATHESON, Circuit Judges.Petitioner James DeRosa, an

  • San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority v. United States

    Publication Date: 2012-03-02
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    Date Filed: 2012-03-02
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Oliver W. Wanger, United States District Judge, Presiding Before: William A. Fletcher and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges, and George H. Wu, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Birmingham, Fresno, California; and Daniel J. O?Hanlon and Andrew P. Tauriainen, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Sacramento, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Cynthia L. Koehler, Environmental Defense Fund, San Francisco, California; and Paul A. Peters, Hines & Thomas, San Francisco, California; and Katherine S. Poole and Jason Malinsky, Natural Resources Defense Counsel, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs-appellees.
    for defendant: Kevin Tanaka, Department of the Interior, Office of Regional Solicitor, Sacramento, California; and Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General, Environmental & Natural Resources Division, and Charles Shockley, Andrew C. Mer gen and David S. Shelton, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.
    Case Number: No. 09-17594

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 2570 SAN LUIS & DELTA-MENDOTA WATER AUTHORITY; WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and p

  • Raniola v. Bratton

    Publication Date: 2001-03-28
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    Date Filed: 2001-03-19
    Court: 2nd Cir.
    Judge: Sotomayor, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 00-7215

    Argued: November 9, 2000Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Alvin K. Hellerstein, Judge) granting defendants' motion for judgment as a

  • Keith Prost v. Carl anderson

    Publication Date: 2011-02-27
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    Date Filed: 2011-02-22
    Court: 10th Cir.
    Judge: Gorsuch, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 08-1455

    PUBLISHFILEDUnited States Court of Appeals Tenth CircuitElisabeth A. Shumaker Clerk of CourtBefore O'BRIEN, SEYMOUR, and GORSUCH, Circuit Judges.Nearly a decade after Keith Prost pleade

  • Farber v. Jefferys, 106399/2009

    Publication Date: 2011-11-08
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    Court: Supreme Court, New York County, Part 2
    Judge: Justice Louis B. York
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    Case Number: 106399/2009

    Cite as: Farber v. Jefferys, 106399/2009, NYLJ 1202528148080, at *1 (Sup., NY, Decided November 2, 2011)Justice Louis B. YorkDecide

  • BP America Production Co. v. Marshall

    Publication Date: 2008-12-11
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    Date Filed: 2008-12-10
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 4
    Judge: Steven C. Hilbig, Justice
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    Case Number: 04-06-00478-CV

    OPINION ON REHEARINGSitting: Karen Angelini, Justice, Rebecca Simmons, Justice, Steven C. Hilbig, Justice.AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED AND REMANDED IN PART; APPELLANTS' MOTION FOR REHEARING GRANTE

  • USA v. Cromitie, 11-2763(L)

    Publication Date: 2013-08-27
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Jacobs, CJ, and Newman and Raggi, CJJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellee: Preet Bharara, U.S. Atty., Patrick Ian McGinley, Jason P.W. Halperin, Iris Lan, Asst. U.S. Attys., New York, NY, on the brief, Adam S. Hickey, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Appellant James Cromitie: Calhoun & Lawrence, LLP, White Plains, NY, on the brief, Clinton W. Calhoun, III, White Plains, NY. For Appellant David Williams: Green & Willstatter, White Plains, NY, on the brief, Theodore S. Green, White Plains, NY. For Appellant Onta Williams: Mark B. Gombiner, New York, NY, on the brief, David A. Lewis, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc. Appeals Bureau, New York, NY. For Appellant Laguerre Payen: Jennifer B. Arlin, Bronx, NY, on the brief, Sam Braverman, Bronx, NY.
    Case Number: 11-2763(L)

    Cite as: USA v. Cromitie, 11-2763(L), NYLJ 1202616996290, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided August 22, 2013) 11-2763(L) Before: Jacobs, CJ, and Newman and R