• August 27, 2007 | Legal Times

    15,000 at Our Gates

    History repeats. The city of Washington, D.C., has come under hostile attack three times. The most recent was on Sept. 11, 2001. The earliest was when British troops burned the capital i

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  • August 8, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Baggage Handler Entitled to Benefits for Work Injury-Related Depression

    In ruling in favor of an airline baggage handler who claims his employer is responsible for psychiatric treatment allegedly necessitated by a work-related neck injury, the majority of a split e

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  • February 11, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Schutjer Bogar Nearing Collapse, Principals Say

    Harrisburg-based firm Schutjer Bogar spent a year expanding across the country to meet the needs of a single client, but now that relationship has soured and the firm's principals say the res

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  • City Of Erie v. Pap's A. M.

    Publication Date: 2000-09-27
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    Date Filed: 2000-03-29
    Court: U.S. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: O'Connor, J., Breyer, JJ., Rehnquist, C. J., Kennedy, Scalia, J., Thomas, J., Souter, J., Stevens, J., Ginsburg, J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 98-1161

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. O'Connor, J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I and

  • February 21, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Cellphone Tracking Admissible at Trial, Federal Court Rules in Harassment Suit

    As the sole remaining plaintiff in a suit alleging widespread workplace harassment gears up for trial, a federal judge restricted the amount of evidence the plaintiff is allowed to present re

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  • In re Marriage Cases

    Publication Date: 2008-05-15
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    Date Filed: 2008-05-15
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sterling E. Norris for Judicial Watch, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants State of California and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Kuna-Jacob as Amicus Curiae.

    Case Number: S147999

    Cite as 08 C.D.O.S. 5820In re MARRIAGE CASES. [Six?consolidated appeals.]No. S147999In the Supreme Court of CaliforniaC

  • People v. Letner

    Publication Date: 2010-07-29
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    Date Filed: 2010-07-29
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fern M. Laethem, Lynn S. Coffin and Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defenders, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Alison Pease and Ronald F. Turner, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant Christopher Alan Tobin. Attorneys for Respondent: Daniel E. Lungren, Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, George Williamson and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Ward A. Campbell, Matthew L. Cate, Eric L. Christoffersen, John G. McLean and Mark A. Johnson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Appellant: J. Thomas Bowden and R. Clayton Seaman, Jr., under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant Richard Lacy Letner.

    Case Number: No. S015384

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 9537pTHE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RICHARD LACY LETNER and CHRISTOPHER ALLAN TOBIN,

  • June 4, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Texas Two-Step: Giuliani and Houston's Bracewell learn the politics of dancing

    It was a beautiful wedding. When Houston's Bracewell & Patterson called a press conference at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel two years ago to introduce its new partner, Rudolph Giuliani, the firm'

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  • Williams v. Norris

    Publication Date: 2009-09-04
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    Date Filed: 2009-08-17
    Court: 8th Cir.
    Judge: Loken, Chief Judge.
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    Case Number: Nos. 07-1984 & 07-2115

    Submitted: January 15, 2009Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, WOLLMAN and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.An Arkansas jury found Marcel Wayne Williams guilty of the capital murder of Stacy Errickson and senten

  • American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, Inc. v. Miami-Dade County School Board

    Publication Date: 2009-02-13
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    Date Filed: 2009-02-05
    Court: 11th Cir.
    Judge: Carnes, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 06-14633

    PUBLISHBefore CARNES and WILSON, Circuit Judges, and WALTER,*fn1 District Judge.Kafka advised a friend that "we ought to read only books that bite and sting us.