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  • August 14, 2017 | National Law Journal

    Why Charlottesville Attack Might Not Be Prosecuted as a Hate Crime

    The killing of a legal assistant allegedly committed by a participant in the Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacist rally over the weekend triggered calls for the defendant to face hate crime charges. But the U.S. Supreme Court has shown hate crime prosecutions present difficult legal problems.

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  • August 10, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

    New Damages Trial Ordered in Nursing Home Liability Row

    The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ordered a new trial on compensatory damages against a nursing home management services provider, as well as on punitive damages against that company and its nursing home client in a long-running suit over a resident's death.

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  • Greenway v. Ryan

    Publication Date: 2017-08-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-08-08
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Raner C. Collins, Chief Judge, Presiding Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Therese M. Day (argued), Assistant Federal Public Defender; Jon M. Sands, Federal Public Defender; Office of the Federal Public Defender, Phoenix, Arizona; for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Laura P. Chiasson (argued), Assistant Attorney General; Jeffrey A. Zick and Lacey Stover Gard, Chief Counsel; Mark Brnovich, Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Tucson, Arizona; for Respondent-Appellee.
    Case Number: No. 14-15309

    Arizona high court properly considered all mitigating evidence (per curiam)

  • August 7, 2017 | Daily Business Review

    Q&A for the 2017 Top Women in Law: Exploring Their Careers and the Profession

    The 10 honorees were asked to describe their careers and offer some thoughts on the legal professions.

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  • August 4, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Unpublished Opinions for the Week of August 7, 2017

    07-2-3888 Glouck v. Skvortsov, N.J. Super. App. Div. (per curiam) (15 pp.) Respondent filed the underlying complaint against appellant and his defendant-mother…

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  • Watson v. United States, 16-655

    Publication Date: 2017-08-04
    Practice Area: Immigration Law | Civil Rights
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Katzmann, Ch.J., Jacobs, and Livingston, C.J.J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Davino Watson: Robert J. Burns on the brief, Mark A. Flessner, Holland & Knight LLP, Chicago, IL.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant United States of America: Varuni Nelson, James R. Cho, and Elliot M. Schachner on the brief, Joseph A. Marutollo, for Robert L. Capers, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY. For Amici Curiae National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild; American Immigration Council, in support of Davino Watson: Trina Realmuto, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Boston, MA; Mary Kenney, American Immigration Council, Washington, DC.
    Case Number: 16-655 (L)

  • Watson v. USA, 16-655

    Publication Date: 2017-08-04
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Katzmann, Ch.J., Jacobs, and Livingston, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Davino Watson: Robert J. Burns on the brief, Mark A. Flessner, Holland & Knight LLP, Chicago, IL.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant United States of America: Varuni Nelson, James R. Cho, and Elliot M. Schachner on the brief, Joseph A. Marutollo, for Robert L. Capers, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY. For Amici Curiae National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild; American Immigration Council, in support of Davino Watson: Trina Realmuto, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Boston, MA; Mary Kenney, American Immigration Council, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: 16-655

    Wrongly Detained U.S. Citizen's FTCA Claim Untimely; Government Did Not Act With

  • People v. Singh

    Publication Date: 2017-08-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-07-31
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Julie A. Hokans and Henry J. Valle, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Janice M. Lagerlof, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. C075295

    Admission of accused murder's handwritten rap lyrics not unduly prejudicial (Nicholson, J.)

  • In the Interest of J.R.P., 14-15-00912-CV (TexApp Dist 07/11/2017)

    Publication Date: 2017-07-31
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-07-11
    Court: Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth
    Judge: JOHN DONOVAN, JUSTICE
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 14-15-00912-CV

    Mother and father had joint conservatorship of their son, J.R.P, with mother holding the exclusive right to determine his primary residence. Father petitioned to modify conservatorship based on moth

  • July 27, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Unpublished Opinions for the Week of July 31, 2017

    07-2-3825 Jones v. S. Jersey Industries, Inc., N.J. Super. App. Div. (per curiam) (13 pp.) Plaintiff appealed the verdict for defendant employer in his…

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