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  • February 15, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Muddying the waters

    The effort of self-proclaimed white racist Matthew Hale to become an Illinois lawyer seemed to raise a good, clear issue: Can someone's racial and religious views make him unfit to practice law?

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  • August 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    MIDLEVEL ASSOCIATES SURVEY 2007: Open Season

    It's a scary prospect, meeting with partners at a big firm about a job. But, as one law student who landed a summer position at Latham & Watkins quickly realized, the preint

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  • May 25, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Environmental Law

    Most of the legal focus on climate change has been directed to the two largest sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, motor vehicles and electric power plants. However, increasing attentio

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  • December 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    The Change Agenda: The Provocateur

    "Success is not correlated with legal quality. Because no one knows what that is." Paul Lippe is at it again, jabbing at the conventions of the legal profession.

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  • October 24, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Habeas history shows presidents, Supreme Court often at odds

    PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN had been in office less than two months when he took an executive action unprecedented in American history. He suspended the right of habeas corpus. At the ti

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  • April 25, 2005 | Legal Times

    Armed Forces: Law Schools v. Military

    Is the federal government allowed to pull funding from law schools that refuse to promote military recruiting on campus in protest of the armed forces' policy of banning gays? In

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  • April 27, 2005 | Legal Times

    Armed Forces: Law Schools vs. Military

    Is the federal government allowed to pull funding from law schools that refuse to promote military recruiting on campus in protest of the armed forces' policy of banning gays? In a 200

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  • September 15, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    The Ultimate Challenge to SEQRA

    There is a debate among those familiar with New York's State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) as to whether this law authorizes municipalities and state agencies to assess the im

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  • October 19, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Assassination of a movie

    Don't listen to the studio Warner Bros., which has already withdrawn its support, or the box-office, which is considered paltry for a Brad Pitt film, but "The Assassination of Jesse James by

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  • Blakey v. Continental Airlines, Inc.

    Publication Date: 1999-06-09
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 1999-06-09
    Court: Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division
    Judge: Judges Petrella, Cuff and Collester.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nancy S. Martin (Kenney, Schaer & Martin, attorneys; Linda B. Kenney, of counsel; Ms. Martin, of counsel and on the brief)
    for defendant: Robert H. Bernstein for respondent Continental Airlines, Inc. (Epstein, Becker & Green, attorneys; Mr. Bernstein, of counsel; Mark D. Lurie and Michael D. Markey, on the brief), Ellen M. Boyle for respondents Kaye V. Riggs, Joe Vacca, Mark J. Farrow, Dave Orozco and Thomas N. Stivala (Satterlee, Stephens, Burke & Burke, attorneys; Ms. Boyle, of counsel and on the brief), Steven H. Issacson for respondent Don Jensen (David S. Springer, attorney; and relying on the brief submitted on behalf of respondents Riggs, Vacca, Farrow, Orozco and Stivala)
    Case Number: No. A-5462-97T3

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. The opinion of the court was delivered byCUFF, J.A.D. In this appeal, we review the proprie