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August 25, 2011 | The American Lawyer

Lehman Execs in Three-Year-Old Securities Class Action Ready to Cut $90 Million Deal

Less than a month after Manhattan federal district court judge Lewis Kaplan refused to dismiss most of the giant, three-year-ol

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September 22, 2004 | Legal Times

Supreme Tipping Point

The Supreme Court -- and who should get to name its justices -- is about to make its quadrennial cameo appearance as a presidential campaign issue. But this time around, a rarely heard questio

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January 31, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Lil Wayne Plays with Fire, Gets Burned

When we mentioned Lil Wayne in a story a few weeks back, it was just part of our doomed-to-fail campaign to be cooler in 2009. W

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Renee v. Duncan

Publication Date: 2010-09-27
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Date Filed: 2010-09-27
Court: 9th Cir.
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Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Affeldt and Tara Kini, Public Advocates, Inc., San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.
for defendant: Alisa B. Klein, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for the defendant-appellee. Lisa A. Davis, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati P.C., Palo Alto, California, for The National Coalition of ESEA Title I Parents, Inc., et al., as amicus curiae. Donald B. Verilli, Jr., Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, D.C., for Teach for America, et al., as amicus curiae.
Case Number: No. 08-16661

Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 12517 SONYA RENEE; CANDICE JOHNSON, a minor, by Sonya Renee, her guardian ad litem; MARIBEL HEREDIA; JOSE ALDANA, a minor, by Maribel Heredi

June 3, 2010 | The American Lawyer

Andrew Levander of Dechert

It's not every day that a litigator is handed the reigns of a full-service law firm with offices around the globe. We've conducted no rigorous study on the issue, but our sense is that the top jobs in

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March 12, 2010 | The American Lawyer

Linklaters' Lehman Liability? Bankruptcy Examiner Says Firm Gave Okay to Questionable Accounting Maneuver No U.S. Firm Would Bless

To obtain legal justification for the a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/tal/digestTAL.jsp?id=1202446094314&In_Detailed_Page_Report_Lehman_Examiner_Finds_Evidence_to_Support_Claims_against_JPMorgan_E

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April 19, 2013 | Litigation Daily

IP Roundup: Viacom Stymied Again in YouTube Infringement Suit

• Viacom Inc. has failed yet again to persuade a U.S. district judge to let it proceed with a massive copyright infringement suit against YouTube LLC and and parent company Google

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March 24, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

A Killer Called 'Youngster'

At age 17, Anzel Keon Jones, a high school sophomore, played football, ran track, partied on weekends -- and murdered a woman and sexually assaulted her mother.Jones, whose nickname am

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July 17, 2003 | National Law Journal

Buoyed Gay Rights Advocates Form Sweeping Litigation Plan

Gay rights advocates, energized by the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark sodomy ruling, plan litigation across a broad front.The justices' 6-3 decision in Lawrence v. Texas, No. 02

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September 30, 2013 | Litigation Daily

'Dream Team' Says Case Could End Gay Marriage Controversy

Marcia Coyle is chief Washington correspondent for The National Law Journal, an American Lawyer affiliate. A lawsuit challenging Virginia's gay marriage and civil u

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