• May 15, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Leaking LAPD Documents Leads to Jail Time

    In 1997, a government consultant disregarded a court order and leaked documents that showed the Los Angeles Police Department had been shielding its officers from arrest and prosecution for do

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  • United States v. Velasquez-Bosque

    Publication Date: 2010-04-15
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    Date Filed: 2010-04-15
    Court: 9th Cir.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel B. Levin, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California, for plaintiff-appellee and cross-appellant the United States of America.
    for defendant: Davina T. Chen, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Santa Ana, California, for defendant-appellant and cross-appellee Fernando Velasquez-Bosque.

    Case Number: No. 09-50126

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 4658UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v.FERNANDO ALBERTO VELASQUEZ-BOSQU

  • March 29, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Court Finds Violation In Affidavit Admission

    ALBANY � In the latest application of a 2004 U.S. Supreme Court Confrontation Clause landmark ruling, the Court of Appeals yesterday unanimously held that a trial court erred when it permitted

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  • September 16, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Protecting Life Insurance Proceeds From Tax and Other Legal Landmines

    Upon the death of an individual who is the owner and insured of a life insurance policy, a death benefit is paid to the individual's designated beneficiaries. These proceeds are comp

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  • November 27, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Collateral Order Appeals

    It is with some trepidation that one ventures into a discussion of the collateral order doctrine, an arcane and complicated area of appellate law. As the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal

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  • September 11, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Surrogate's Practice and Proceedings

    With our aging population's increasing reliance on the assistance of others, we thought we would again look at some of the implications of the relationship being characterized as a confidential one

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  • April 6, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Protecting the Business Purchaser

    Though more often discussed in the context of employment contracts, restrictive covenants are also extremely important in contracts for the sale of a business. A restrictive covenant provides an im

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  • July 6, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Expectations of Privacy in E-Mail Communications

    People continue to rely on their belief that the contents of e-mails, like phone calls, are sacrosanct and what is "said" in e-mail communication remains "confidential" to every

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  • December 31, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Nurses' Disregard of Protocol Doesn't Negate Coverage

    A drug-testing company whose employees botched four clinical trials by fudging paperwork is entitled to insurance coverage under an employee dishonesty policy -- even if the employees had noth

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  • May 31, 2004 |

    Court Lacks Power To 'Freeze' Comp Benefits To Ensure Alimony

    No more than half of a lump sum payment made to a workers' compensation recipient may be placed in escrow for future alimony payments to his former wife, the state Supreme Court has ruled.

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