• July 19, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Ninth Circuit to Disney: Let disabled woman use Segway

    The Walt Disney Co. should have allowed a disabled woman to use a Segway scooter to get around in Disneyland, even though she acknowledged in three earlier lawsuits that a wheelchair could ac

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  • December 20, 2002 | The Recorder

    The Politics of Parole

    The California Supreme Court this week essentially handed Gov. Gray Davis -- the master of the court's budgetary fate -- the right to do just about anything he wants when it comes to parole.

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  • Garcia v. S.U.N.Y. Health Sciences Center of Brooklyn

    Publication Date: 2001-10-04
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    Date Filed: 2001-09-26
    Court: 2nd Cir.
    Judge: John M. Walker, Jr., Chief Judge.
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    Case Number: 00-9223

    Argued: January 25, 2001Plaintiff-appellant Francisco Garcia appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Reena Raggi, District Judge), dismissi

  • May 31, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    Applying Heightened Pleading Requirements to Non-Fraud Cases

    Since the enactment of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA),[FOOTNOTE 1] many decisions have interpreted the new pleading requirements as they ap

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  • Golz v. Shinseki

    Publication Date: 2010-01-11
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    Date Filed: 2010-01-04
    Court: Fed. Cir.
    Judge: Moore, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 2009-7039

    Before BRYSON, PROST, and MOORE, Circuit Judges.Appellant Julius J. Golz appeals from the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (Veterans Court) affirming the decision

  • April 16, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Boston Bomb Probe Will Be 'Fast-Moving and Intense'

    The investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings was in full swing Tuesday, as President Obama addressed reporters following briefings by top officials including Attorney General Eric Hold

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  • February 3, 2011 | The Recorder

    Malilia v. Holder

    9th Cir. 05-77397 The court of appeals granted a petition in part, dismissed in part, and remanded. The court held that the government’s delay in acting upon a citizenship ap

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  • Saldana v. Kmart Corp.

    Publication Date: 2001-07-26
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    Date Filed: 2001-07-23
    Court: 3rd Cir.
    Judge: Barry, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: Nos. 99-4055 and

    (Amended Per Court's Order of 3/16/01)Argued: May 18, 2001OPINION OF THE COURTThis case arises from a slip-and-fall suffered by Marie Saldana at a Kmart store on St. Croix. Ms. Saldana appeal

  • March 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Error at Home

    On September 21, 2010, Bingham McCutchen partner Lawrence Silverstein found himself living every lawyer's worst nightmare. He was on the witness stand being bombarded with questions t

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  • City of Lubbock v. Rule

    Publication Date: 2002-01-30
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    Date Filed: 2002-01-28
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 7
    Judge: Brian Quinn, Justice.
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    Case Number: 07-01-00248-CV

    In this interlocutory proceeding, the City of Lubbock appeals from an order denying its motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction. The two issues before us involve whether the trial court erred in de