• May 1, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    White-Collar Crime

    Hard cases sometimes make bad law. When bad law was made in hard cases involving drugs or organized crime, it did not engender a universal hue and cry. Indeed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for th

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  • Levitan v. Ashcroft

    Publication Date: 2002-03-15
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    Date Filed: 2002-03-08
    Court: D.C.Cir.
    Judge: Edwards, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 00-5346

    Argued January 17, 2002Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge Edwards.Appellants are federal prisoners who are practicing Catholic Christians. They challenge a prison rule preventing them

  • EOG Resources Inc. v. Hurt

    Publication Date: 2011-12-20
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    Date Filed: 2011-12-15
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 2
    Judge: Bill Meier Justice
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    Case Number: NO. 02-11-00093-CV

    OPINIONI.INTRODUCTIONAppellant and Cross-Appellee EOG Resources, Inc. appeals from an adverse judgment in favor of Appellee and Cross-Appellant James R. Hurt, Jr. Hurt appeals a post-ve

  • January 20, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act: Habeas Petitions

    Since the enactment of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) of 1996, the bringing of a "second or successive" petition for habeas corpus relief in federal district court,

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  • February 23, 2006 | The Recorder

    Copyright Laws Can't Keep Up

    Howard Stern and Oprah Winfrey might have lent some serious star power to subscription-based satellite radio networks XM and Sirius, but that doesn't mean the fledgling medium is ready for pri

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  • Tackett v. Pine Richland School District

    Publication Date: 2002-03-15
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    Date Filed: 2002-03-14
    Court: Pa. Commw. Ct.
    Judge: Senior Judge Kelley
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    Case Number: 2374 C.D. 2001

    Argued: February 11, 2002Sean A. Tackett (Tackett) appeals from a final order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (trial court) which granted the Motion for Summary Judgment filed by P

  • People v. Makeda Benjamin, 2008NY081024

    Publication Date: 2008-07-07
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    Date Filed: 2008-06-26
    Court: Criminal Court, New York County
    Judge: Marc Whiten
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    Case Number: 2008NY081024

    Judge Marc J. Whiten NEW YORK COUNTY Criminal Court For the People: ADA Emily Orfinger For the Defense: Rudolph Silas, Esq.

  • February 1, 2012 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Supreme Court Reverses Chancery Decision on Dismissal Standards

    The Delaware Supreme Court reversed a decision from Delaware Chancery Court Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster, ruling that the vice chancellor erred by applying the federal "plausibili

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  • Phelps-Roper v. Strickland

    Publication Date: 2008-09-02
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    Date Filed: 2008-08-22
    Court: 6th Cir.
    Judge: Suhrheinrich, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 07-3600

    RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206Argued: February 5, 2008Before: SUHRHEINRICH, COLE, and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges.OPINIONThis case involves a facial c

  • Raquel v. Education Management Corp.

    Publication Date: 1999-11-09
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    Date Filed: 1999-11-09
    Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: SLOVITER, ALITO and ALARCON, Circuit Judges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kim M. Watterson, et al.
    for defendant: Dennis J. Mulvihill, et al.

    Case Number: No. 98-3321

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. OPINION OF THE COURT SLOVITER, Circuit Judge. Before us is an appeal from the order of the