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  • August 18, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Transgender Bias Suit Against Library of Congress Could Change Federal Policy

    A transgender job bias suit against the Library of Congress moves to trial Tuesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., with potentially major implications for federal anti-discrimination policy.

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  • United States v. Barbara Renor Jasper

    Publication Date: 2003-11-21
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    U.S. District Court Southern District of New York Judge Leisure On March 21, 2003, following a two-week jury trial, defendant Barbara Renor Jasper was convicted of on

  • March 27, 2007 | Alm

    Judge: Cablevision System Violates Copyright Laws

    A federal judge in New York has sided with entertainment producers who claimed that Cablevision's network-based remote-storage digital video recorder (DVR) system violated copyright infringeme

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  • United States v. Outen

    Publication Date: 2002-04-15
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    Date Filed: 2002-04-12
    Court: 2nd Cir.
    Judge: Sotomayor, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 97-1103

    Argued: March 13, 2001On direct appeal from a judgment of conviction entered by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Frederic Block, Judge), defendant argues that

  • November 5, 2009 | The Recorder

    People v. Stevens

    Ca.Sup.Ct. S158852 The California Supreme Court affirmed a judgment. The court held that no showing of manifest need was required to justify the placement of uniformed security personne

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  • Leatherbury v. Dep't of the Army

    Publication Date: 2008-05-07
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    Date Filed: 2008-04-29
    Court: Fed. Cir.
    Judge: Dyk, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For petitioner: David Giggs, Dolan Giggs, Portland, Ore.
    for defendant: For respondent: Hillary Stern, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: 2007-3261

    Published opinionBefore BRYSON, Circuit Judge, CLEVENGER, Senior Circuit Judge, and DYK, Circuit Judge.Richard A. Leatherbury ("Leatherbury") appeals a final decision of the Merit Systems Protec

  • Continental Insurance Co. v. Atlantic Casualty Insurance Co.

    Publication Date: 2011-01-01
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    Date Filed: 2010-04-29
    Court: 2d Cir.
    Judge: Gerard E. Lynch, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 09-2882-cv

    Argued: March 5, 2010Before: LIVINGSTON AND LYNCH, Circuit Judges.*fn1In 2004, employees of Wodraska Brothers, Inc. ("Wodraska"), a roofing contractor, inadvert

  • May 1, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Delivering Justice in a New Reality

    Former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Warren E. Burger once observed that "[c]oncepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet

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  • July 22, 2010 | The Recorder

    Caveat Emptor

    An office manager in charge of a company's books embezzles funds to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. An employee of a brokerage house obtains client funds on the promise of a conservat

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  • June 15, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    8th Circuit Case Shows That Not All Directors Are Insiders

    Section 101(31) of the Bankruptcy Code, the provision of the code that defines those who are "insiders" of a debtor, continues to generate litigation almost 30 years after its enactment. Last

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