• September 24, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

    2010 Ineligible List

    Attorney Ineligibility Order Pursuant to Rule 1:28-2(a) SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEY Pursuant to Rule 1:28-2, the Trustees of the New Jersey Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection (Fund)

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  • February 27, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    Redistricting Revisited: U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Challenges to Texas Congressional Map

    With two new justices on board, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments March 1 on whether the Republican-dominated Texas Legislature went too far in 2003, when it redrew the state's congre

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  • Guggenheim v. City of Goleta

    Publication Date: 2010-12-22
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    Date Filed: 2010-12-22
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Florence-Marie Cooper, District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted June 22, 2010—Pasadena, California Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Alfred T. Goodwin, Stephen Reinhardt, Pamela Ann Rymer, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Ronald M. Gould, Richard R. Clifton, Consuelo M. Callahan, Carlos T. Bea, Sandra S. Ikuta, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert S. Coldren, Hart, King & Coldren, Santa Ana, California, for the appellants.
    for defendant: Andrew W. Schwartz (argued), Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, LLP, San Francisco, California, and Amy E. Morgan (briefed), Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for appellees. David J. Bradford (briefed), Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for amicus curiae Equity Lifestyle Properties. Michael M. Berger (briefed), Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for amicus curiae Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. Gordon C. Atkinson (briefed), Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, San Francisco, California, for amicus curiae Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners League. John J. McDermott (briefed), Arlington, Virginia, for amici curiae National Apartment Association, National Multi Housing Council, Apartment Association of California Southern Cities, Inc., and the Apartment Association of Orange County. Grant Habata (briefed), California Association of Realtors, Los Angeles, California, for amicus curiae California Association of Realtors. R. S. Radford (briefed), Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California, for amici curiae Pacific Legal Foundation and Manufactured Housing Institute. Amy E. Margolin (briefed), Bien & Summers, Novato, California, for amicus curiae Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association. Karen K. McCay, Sonia S. Shah, Anthony J. Adair, and Stepanie M. Vaughan, (briefed), Pahl & McCay, San Jose, California, for amicus curiae California Apartment Association. Meaghan McLaine VerGow (briefed), O?Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae Manufactured Housing Educational Trust, Goldstein Properties, Inc., and Morgan Partners, Inc. Michael von Loewenfeldt (briefed), Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP, San Francisco, California, and Jeff M. Malawy (briefed), Aleshire & Wynder, LLP, Irvine, California, for amici curiae League of California Cities, and California State Association of Counties. Terry R. Dowdall (briefed), Dowdall Law Offices, Orange, California, for amicus curiae California Mobilehome Parkowners Alliance. Elizabeth B. Wydra (briefed), Constitutional Accountability Center, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae American Planning Association, APA California, Constitutional Accountability Center, and Western Center on Law and Poverty. Meliah Schultzman (briefed), National Housing Law Project, Oakland, California, for amici curiae AARP, California Coalition for Rural Housing, Housing California, Legal Services of Northern California, Non-Profit Housing, Association of Northern California, R. Keith Traphagen, and Tenants Together.

    Case Number: No. 06-56306

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 15843DANIEL GUGGENHEIM; SUSAN GUGGENHEIM; MAUREEN H. PIERCE, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY

  • In Re: MTBE Products Liability Litigation, 10-4135-cv (L)

    Publication Date: 2013-07-29
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Parker, Hall, and Carney, CJJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants the City of New York, the New York City Water Board, and the New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority: Susan E. Amron, Assistant Corporation Counsel, New York City Law Department, New York, NY; Victor M. Sher, Sher Leff LLP, San Francisco, CA, on the brief, Paul M. Smith, Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC.
    for defendant: For amicus curiae Natural Resources Defense Council, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants: Michael E. Wall, Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, CA, Johanna Dyer, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, NY. For amicus curiae New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants: Paula T. Dow, Attorney General of New Jersey, George N. Cohen, Richard F. Engel, Deputy Attorneys General, Trenton, NJ; Michael Axline, Miller, Axline & Sawyer, Sacramento, CA. For Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees Exxon Mobil Oil Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, and Mobil Corporation: Traci L. Lovitt, Nicholas W. Haddad, Jones Day, New York, NY; Peter John Sacripanti, James A. Pardo, Lauren E. Handel, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, New York, NY, on the brief, Paul D. Clement, Bancroft PLLC, Washington, DC. For amici curiae American Chemistry Council, American Coatings Association, the National Association of Manufacturers, the NFIB Small Business Legal Center, and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, in support of Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees: Donald W. Fowler, Eric G. Lasker, Hollingsworth LLP, Washington, DC; Donald D. Evans, American Chemistry Council, Washington, DC; Thomas J. Graves, American Coatings Association, Inc., Washington, DC; Quentin Riegel, National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, DC; Elizabeth Milito, NFIB Small Business Legal Center, Washington, DC; Robin S. Conrad, National Chamber Litigation Center, Inc., Washington, DC. For amici curiae, National Petrochemical and Refiners Association and American Petroleum Institute, in support of Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees: Joseph R. Guerra, James R. Wedeking, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC. For amicus curiae The Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., in support of Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees Michael B. Mukasey, Anne E. Cohen, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY; Hugh F. Young, Jr., Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., Reston, VA.

    Case Number: 10-4135-cv (L)

    Cite as: In Re: MTBE Lit., 10-4135-cv (L), NYLJ 1202612814095, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided July 26, 2013) 10-4135-cv (L) Before: Parker, Hall, and Car

  • November 17, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Lawyers Take Center Stage

    When historians look back on the contentious presidential election of 2000, they may surprise many of today's critics who say that too much of the titanic political struggle has been controlle

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  • August 5, 2005 | National Law Journal

    The High Court's Changing Landscape

    No individual or institution escapes change in a lifetime. After 11 remarkably unaltered years together, the Rehnquist Court has entered its own season of change.The announced retireme

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  • November 19, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    National Rankings

    National Rankings Summer Love

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  • September 17, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    Selective Execution

    On April 27, John Langley, 43, was found dead at the Innkeeper Motel in Danville, Va. A resident of North Carolina, Langley had come to Danville to do construction work. According to a police

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  • November 30, 2004 | The Recorder

    Vioxx Web Site Has Law Firms Outraged

    Kenneth Suggs, president-elect of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, is considering making a phone call to Sen. Orrin Hatch. Suggs wants to tell the Utah Republican to blame a Cana

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