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November 6, 2006 | Legal Times

New U.S. Attorney Hopes to Be a 'Local Hero'

Jeffrey Taylor knows he's got a 68-square-mile hole in his r�sum�. Yes, the District's new U.S. attorney has some impressive credentials: four years as a narcotics prosecutor in

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July 31, 2007 | The Associated Press

County officials get angry reaction about handling of Vick case

SURRY, Va. AP - Gail P. Clayton was talking to yet another reporter about the Michael Vick dogfighting case when a co-worker handed her a letter that had just arrived at the Surry County cour

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July 8, 2011 | The Associated Press

Texas executes Mexican despite White House plea

HUNTSVILLE, Texas AP - The U.S. Supreme Court refused to block Texas from executing a Mexican citizen despite a White House-backed appeal that claimed the case could affect other foreigners a

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Ralphs Grocery Company v. United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 8

Publication Date: 2011-01-28
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Date Filed: 2011-01-27
Court: C.A. 5th
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Attorneys: For plaintiff: Morrison & Foerster, Miriam A. Vogel, Timothy F. Ryan, and Tritia M. Murata for Plaintiff and Appellant. Littler Mendelson, William J. Emanuel, Natalie Rainforth for Employers Group, California Grocers Association, and California Hospital Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.
for defendant: Davis, Cowell & Bowe, Elizabeth A. Lawrence, Andrew J. Kahn, Sarah Grossman-Swenson and Paul L. More for Defendant and Respondent. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, Solicitor General, J. Matthew Rodriguez, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Louis Verdugo, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Angela Sierra and Antonette Benita Cordero, Deputy Attorneys General, for Attorney General Edmund G. Brown, Jr., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent. Altshuler Berzon, Stephen P. Berzon, Scott A. Kronland, and P. Casey Pitts for Service Employees International Union as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.
Case Number: No. F058716

Cite as 11 C.D.O.S. 1369RALPHS GROCERY COMPANY, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS

May 18, 2009 | New York Law Journal

When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice

Edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat, New York University Press, New York, N.Y. 349 pages What do we mean when we say that we have a "ju

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July 27, 2000 | The American Lawyer

Railroaded

On the day Ellen Reasonover walked out of Chillicothe Correctional Center in northwest Missouri last August, Cheryl Pilate and Charles Rogers were there to meet her. Squeezing into Rogers's co

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March 5, 2007 | Legal Times

Keeping Score

Green EnergyLast week TXU Corp., the largest energy provider in Texas — and a pervasive polluter, say environmentalists — agreed to a $45 billion buyout.

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August 19, 2008 | The Associated Press

RI, town reach $20 million deal in club fire suits

PROVIDENCE, R.I. AP - The state of Rhode Island and the town of West Warwick have each agreed to pay $10 million to those left behind after a nightclub fire that killed 100 people, according

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December 16, 1999 | Legal Times

Fighting the Good Fight

Pillar of Fire By Taylor Branch (Touchstone; 746 pages; $17 paperback) Do you want to understand the combustibility of contemporary battles over affirmative action and race re

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Mendler v. Winterland Production, Ltd.

Publication Date: 2000-03-14
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Date Filed: 2000-03-14
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey A. Berchenko
for defendant: David M. Given
Case Number: No. 98-16061

The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge: In this case of contract interpretation we must answer the following ridd