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  • December 3, 2012 | National Law Journal

    IN BRIEF

    BP BANNED The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has suspended BP PLC from future government contracts, citing its "lack of business ­integrit

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  • April 12, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Deal Watch: PoGo's client lifts off with Global deal

    Correction appended: See below for a correction to this story. A GEORGIA AIRLINE that specializes in transporting military troops looked to Powell Goldstein partners for advice on bein

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  • June 12, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Judge Kaplan Rules Against Hedge Funds In CSX Case

    Corporate America may want to write a thank-you note to the Cravath lawyers--Rory Millson, Francis Barron, and David Marriott--who represented CSX in its closely-watched showdown with two hedge funds

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  • September 8, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Character Committee Interviews Set for Tuesday

    The Committee on Character and Fitness for the Appellate Division, First Department, is scheduled to interview candidates on Tuesday, Sept. 13. See a target="new" href="http:/

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  • July 10, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, Third Edition

    Published by Westlaw, 2011, 2012; $1,351 When now Southern District Judge Katherine Forrest and I reviewed the first edition of this extraordinary treatise in 1998, we

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  • March 8, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Score: Proskauer Reigns Supreme Atop Pro Sports

    UPDATE: 3/11/2013, 10:00 a.m. EDT. Information on outside counsel for the NFL's Carolina Panthers has been added to the second-to-last paragraph of this

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  • March 2, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Atlanta firms slow flow of M & A deals to New York

    By Andy Peters, Staff Reporter Alston & Bird partner J. Vaughan Curtis has practiced corporate law in Atlanta for 28 years, but he doesn't have a single local client. Curtis

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  • Disability Advocates, Inc. v. New York Coalition for Quality Assisted Living, Inc., 10-235(L)

    Publication Date: 2012-04-10
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Cabranes and Parker, C.JJ., and Korman, D.J. **
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellee Disability Advocates, Inc: Andrew G. Gordon (Julie E. Fink, Geoffrey Chepiga, Elizabeth Seidlin-Bernstein, Lindsey Weinstock, and Francine Murray, on the brief), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Cliff Zucker (Timothy A. Clune, on the brief) Disability Advocates, Inc., Albany, NY; Ira A. Burnim, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Washington, DC; Mara A. Kuns, Urban Justice Center, New York, NY; Roger Bearden (Aditi Koethekar, on the brief), New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, New York, NY; and Jeannette Zelhof (Jota Borgmann, on the brief), MFY Legal Services, Inc., New York, NY. For Plaintiff-Appellee United States of America: Samuel R. Bagenstos, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General (Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General, Jessica Dunsay Silver and Terese Kwon, Attorneys, on the brief), Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC. For amici curiae States of Connecticut, Arkansas, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming, in support of New York State Appellants: Hugh Barber, Assistant Attorney General of Connecticut (on behalf of Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General of Connecticut, Dustin McDaniel, Attorney General of Arkansas, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General of Tennessee, Mark L. Shurtleff, Attorney General of Utah, Bruce A. Salzbury, Attorney General of Wyoming), Hartford, CT. For amici curiae Americare Certified Special Services, Inc. et al., in support of Appellants: Christopher Murray (Matthew F. Didora, on the brief), Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, PC, Uniondale, NY. For Movant Empire State Association of Assisted Living, in support of Appellants: David T. Luntz (Lori A. Sievers, on the brief), Hinman Straub, PC, Albany, NY. For amicus curiae Families of Current Adult Home Residents, in support of Appellants: Jordan W. Siev (Christopher A. Lynch, Cameron G. Van Tassell and David J. De Jesus, on the brief), Reed Smith LLP, New York, NY. For amici curiae American Association of Community Psychiatrists et al., in support of Appellees: Carla Christofferson (Justine M Daniels and Christopher A. Adams, on the brief), O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA. For amici curiae Dick Thornburgh (former United States Attorney General) and 30 former state mental health commissioners, in support of Appellees: Steven J. Schwartz (Mollie Richardson, on the brief), Center for Public Representation, Northampton, MA; and Robert J. Alessi (Gregory G. Nickson and Jeffrey D. Kuhn, on the brief), Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, Albany, NY. For amici curiae C.C. et al. (current and former residents of Adult Homes), in support of Appellees: Elizabeth B. McCallum, Howrey LLP, Washington, DC. For amici curiae The National Disability Rights Network et al., in support of Appellee Disability Advocates: Antony L. Ryan (Rebecca R. Silber and Alejandro H. Cruz), Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY. For amici curiae The Coalition of Institutionalized Aged and Disabled et al., in support of Appellees: Peter K. Vigeland (Michael Bongiorno, David F. Olsky, Omar Kahn, Natalie Rastin, Leizel A. Ching, on the brief), Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Movant-Appellant New York State Coalition for Quality Assisted Living: Patricia A. Millett (Steven M. Pesner, Robert H. Pees, James P. Chou, and Christopher M. Egleson, on the brief), Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington DC. For New York State Defendants-Appellants: Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General of the State of New York (Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, Benjamin Gutman, Deputy Solicitor General, Cecilia C. Chang, Laura R. Johnson, Steven C. Wu, Assistant Solicitors General, on the brief), New York, NY.
    Case Number: 10-235(L)

    Cite as: Disability Advocates, Inc. v. New York Coalition for Quality Assisted Living, Inc., 10-235(L), NYLJ 1202548402238, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided April 6, 2012)p class="

  • April 27, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Dialing for Dollars

    Has it really been 25 years since we started asking large law firms about the money they make? Actually, if you count from the first iteration of our annual financial survey, The Am Law 50 [J

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  • February 9, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    In re: American Express Merchants? Litigation

    Decided Jan. 30, 2009 Before Pooler, Sack, and Sotomayor, C.JJ. The plaintiffs seek review of the March 16, 2006 decision of the United States District Court for the S

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