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  • October 1, 2003 |

    An Unexpected Evidentiary Battleground

    Ordinarily, the focus in a product liability case is on the defendant-manufacturer's duty to design and manufacture a safe and useful product and to warn adequately of any risks associated with its

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  • United States v. Simmons

    Publication Date: 2009-09-16
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    Date Filed: 2009-09-11
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: Tinder, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 08-2207

    ARGUED FEBRUARY 25, 2009Before FLAUM, WILLIAMS, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.Alan Simmons was convicted on three federal charges: conspiracy, armed bank robbery, and use of a firearm during a crim

  • February 21, 2005 | Legal Times

    Let a Hundred Cases Bloom

    Republican leaders claim to have "reformed" class actions � by passing a bill that will pull more of these lawsuits into federal court. Too good to be true? You bet. Congress' reform � t

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  • Surrogate's Court — Published in the Law Journal on: December 9, 2011,

    Publication Date: 2011-12-07
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    Surrogate HolzmanESTATE OF ARTHUR WILLIAMS, Deceased—In this application by an alleged creditor for the issuance of letters of administration to the dece

  • December 20, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Touched by Scandal

    On Jan. 15, 2003, lawyers in Washington, D.C., can take their pick. They can head over at noon to the Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson offices for a conference titled, "Shredding D

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  • June 21, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 09-21

    The Committee on Judicial Ethics responds to written inquiries from New York state's approximately 3,400 judges, who serve both full- and part-time. The committee's opinions interpret the Rules Gov

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  • April 17, 2006 | Legal Times

    Supreme Court to Consider the Fungibility of Lawyers

    Any self-respecting lawyer has probably said it, or at least thought it: "Nobody can represent my client better than I can."On Tuesday the Supreme Court takes up a Missouri case that could e

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  • In Re: Richard Burival, Doing Business As Burival Brothers v. Internal Revenue Service; Nebraska Department of Revenue

    Publication Date: 2011-06-15
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    Date Filed: 2011-06-10
    Court: 8th Cir.
    Judge: Federman, Bankruptcy Judge
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    Case Number: 10-6085

    Submitted: May 3, 2011Before KRESSEL, Chief Judge, FEDERMAN and VENTERS, Bankruptcy JudgesWilliam L. Needler, the Debtors' attorney, as a holder of an administrative claim for his attorney

  • Baughman v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-30
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    Date Filed: 2000-05-23
    Court: Ohio Sup. Ct.
    Judge: STRATTON, COOK, C.J., DOUGLAS, F.E. SWEENEY and PFEIFER, JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David M. Paris and Kathleen J. St. John; and Lawrence A. Sutte
    for defendant: Mark A. Johnson and Elizabeth A. McNellie; and Henry A. Hentemann
    Case Number: No. 99-556

    This is an appeal from a decision reversing the trial court's order granting certification of a class action. The action was brought by plaintiffs-appellants, Delmas and Cora Ann Baughman, on

  • June 23, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Former Refco CEO Seeks to Avoid 'De Facto Life Sentence' Former Refco CEO Philip R. Bennett is arguing that he be given a sentence similar to that meted out

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