• 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

  • People v Lynk

    Publication Date: 2010-06-08
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    Court: Appellate Division, 2nd Dept
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    Case Number: 2008-09435

    Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department STEVEN W. FISHER, J.P. JOSEPH COVELLO L. PRISCILLA HALL SANDRA L. S

  • January 29, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Limiting, Clawing Back Executive Pay in the Wake of Financial Bailout

    Shareholders and the general public are livid that former executives of failed companies received, or continue to receive, exorbitant pay and bonuses in the aftermath of the implosion of the su

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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

  • December 5, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    New Deals

    ST. JUDE MEDICAL INC. TO ACQUIRE ADVANCED NEUROMODULATION SYSTEMS INC. Kenneth Hawari, general counsel of Advanced Neuromodulation Systems Inc. of Plano is using Baker Botts for the co

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  • June 18, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Judge Pfaelzer Raises Questions About $624 Million Countrywide Shareholder Settlement

    Not so fast. That's what Los Angeles federal district court judge Mariana Pfaelzer told lawyers for Countrywide Financial Corporation and a class of shareholders on Wednesday. Last month we told you t

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  • December 22, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Accolades

    For the first time in its 18-year history, the Mexican Bar Association has bestowed its National Jurisprudence Prize to a foreigner - Donald Francis Donovan. A litigatio

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  • United States of America v. Yusef Tareek Stroud

    Publication Date: 2012-03-16
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    Date Filed: 2012-03-14
    Court: 8th Cir.
    Judge: Wollman, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 10-3621,, No. 11-2119

    Submitted: December 14, 2011Before WOLLMAN, MELLOY, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.Yusuf Tareek Stroud was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, *fn1

  • January 16, 2007 | The Recorder

    Alschuler Grossman's Great Divide

    Marshall Grossman and Stanton "Larry" Stein may be in for some awkward elevator rides. The two heavyweights at Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan officially divorced Jan. 1 after a yearlon

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  • Brooks v. Northglen Association

    Publication Date: 2002-04-19
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    Date Filed: 2002-04-18
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 6
    Judge: Chief Justice Cornelius
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    Case Number: 06-01-00028-CV

    Dissenting Opinion by Justice GrantOPINIONGeneva Brooks and other lot owners (lot owners) appeal from the trial court's summary judgment granting declaratory relief in favor of Northglen Associa