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  • In re C.M.

    Publication Date: 2017-09-18
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-09-15
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Montgomery, County Counsel, John E. Phillips, Chief Deputy County Counsel, and Paula J. Roach, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Jamie A. Moran, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. D072056

    Conditional removal order contravened dependency scheme and violated family's due process rights (Huffman, J.)

  • September 14, 2017 | New York Law Journal

    Words Matter, Facts Matter and So Does Leadership

    Michael A. Hardy writes: In a Sept. 1 perspective, Sol Wachtler, New York state's former Chief Judge, discussed his concern over the debate regarding statues, monuments and memorials that honored Confederate general's and the nation's founding fathers. While the topic is certainly worthy of speech and debate, Professor Wachtler strays far from the relevant argument when he attempts to equate Reverend Al Sharpton to the neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville.

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  • Corbett v. State of Texas, 08-15-00300-CR (TexApp Dist 08/23/2017)

    Publication Date: 2017-09-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-08-23
    Court: Court of Appeals of Texas, Eighth District
    Judge: ANN CRAWFORD MCCLURE, CHIEF JUSTICE
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 08-15-00300-CR

    Earnest Lackey was brutally murdered at a house where several guests were using drugs and where at least one guest, appellant Staten William Corbett Jr., belonged to the Aryan Brotherhood gang. Lac

  • September 8, 2017 | National Law Journal

    DC Judge's Best Trial Tips, Government Lawyers Flock to Firms, Mueller's Hotline

    Washington Wrap is a weekly roundup of Big Law hires and other Washington, D.C., legal industry news.

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  • United States v. $11,500.00 in United States Currency

    Publication Date: 2017-09-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-09-05
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Michael W. Mosman, Chief District Judge, Presiding Before: Jay S. Bybee and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges, and Jed S. Rakoff,*District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alexis Lien (argued) and Annemarie Sgarlata, Assistant United States Attorneys; Kelly A. Zusman, Appellate Chief; United States Attorney's Office, Portland, Oregon; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Frank de la Puente (argued), Salem, Oregon, for Claimant-Appellant.
    Case Number: No. 14-35717

    Mere intent to use cash to facilitate drug transaction insufficient to support judgment of forfeiture (Bybee, J.)

  • Grotheer v. Escape Adventures, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-09-05
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Transportation
    Industry: Transportation | Entertainment and Leisure
    Date Filed: 2017-08-31
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: The Law Office of Robert J. Pecora and Robert J. Pecora for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Agajanian, McFall, Weiss, Tetreault & Crist and Paul L. Tetreault for Defendants and Respondents.
    Case Number: No. E063449

    Hot air balloons not common carriers (Slough, J.)

  • People v. Daniels

    Publication Date: 2017-09-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-08-31
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Ward A. Campbell, Stephanie A. Mitchell, Sean M. McCoy, Larenda R. Delaini and Christopher J. Rench, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Gail R. Weinheimer, Kate LaGrande Chatfield and Gary D. Garcia, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.
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    No showing of "knowing and intelligent" waiver of defendant's right to jury at penalty phase of trial (by the court)

  • Kou v. State of Texas, 04-16-00346-CR (4th COA. 08/16/2017)

    Publication Date: 2017-09-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-08-16
    Court: United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
    Judge: LUZ ELENA D. CHAPA, JUSTICE
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 04-16-00346-CR

    Appellant Steve Kou was indicted for continuous sexual abuse of his granddaughter. The granddaughter, shortly before her ninth birthday, told appellant's ex-wife about the abuse and told her mot

  • August 31, 2017 | New York Law Journal

    Be Careful What You Wish For

    I lived my youth in the rural south. I was educated at a Southern university where Robert E. Lee is entombed, located in a Virginia town where Stonewall Jackson is also buried and memorialized. Being a Jew, I witnessed and personally suffered the pain inflicted by anti-Semites. But we are a forgiving people. I hope Mayor de Blasio can find it in his heart to forgive the sins of some others whose "hateful" monuments his commission will consider removing.

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  • Cazares v. State of Texas, 08-15-00266-CR (TexApp Dist 08/16/2017)

    Publication Date: 2017-08-31
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    Date Filed: 2017-08-16
    Court: Court of Appeals of Texas, Eighth District
    Judge: GINA M. PALAFOX, JUSTICE
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 08-15-00266-CR

    In a two-count indictment, appellant was charged with felony murder and contained an enhancement paragraph asserting he had prior, final convictions for the offenses of robbery and aggravated robbe