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April 23, 2007 | The Minority Law Journal

Chart: Diversity Scorecard 2007

Diversity Scorecard 2007

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January 3, 2011 | The American Lawyer

Late Breaking Deals in 2010 Paint Rosy M&A Picture for 2011

Almost 20 deals in the $1 billion range were announced during the last weeks of 2010. Are they a sign of better times to come? Here is a quick guide to the legal adviso

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Farrakhan v. Gregoire

Publication Date: 2010-10-08
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Date Filed: 2010-10-07
Court: 9th Cir.
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Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan P. Haygood (argued), John Payton, Theodore Shaw, Norman J. Chachkin, Debo P. Adegbile, Kristen Clarke and Dale E. Ho, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, New York, Danielle C. Gray, New York, New York, and Lawrence A. Weiser, University Legal Assistance at Gonzaga Law School, Spokane, Washington, for plaintiffs-appellants.
for defendant: Robert M. McKenna (argued), Attorney General, Daniel J. Judge, Senior Counsel, and Jeffrey T. Even, Carol Murphy and William B. Collins, Deputy Solicitors General, Olympia, Washington, for defendants-appellees. Derek S. Tarson and Marianne Koh, Of Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, New York, for amici curiae Twenty-Three Leading Criminologists. Sharon L. Browne and Ralph W. Kasarda, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California, for amici curiae Pacific Legal Foundation and Center for Equal Opportunity. Thomas C. Goldstein, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, D.C., and Pamela S. Karlan and Jeffrey L. Fisher, Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford, California, for amici curiae Thirteen Law Professors. Daniel F. Kolb and Edmund Polubinski III, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, New York, for amicus curiae Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. Juan Cartagena, Community Service Society, New York, New York, for amicus curiae Community Service Society. Elizabeth B. Wydra, Douglas T. Kendall and David H. Gans, Constitutional Accountability Center, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Constitutional Accountability Center. Whitty Somvichian, Kyle C. Wong, Kelly Cooke and Tyler Onitsuka, Cooley LLP, San Francisco, California, for amici curiae Lawyers? Committee for Civil Rights, Equal Justice Society, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and American Parole and Probation Association. Sarah A. Dunne and Nancy Talner, American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Foundation, Seattle, Washington, Peter A. Danelo, Seattle, Washington, Leonard J. Feldman, P.K. Runkles-Pearson and Daniel A. Swedlow, Stoel Rives LLP, Seattle, Washington, and Laughlin McDonald and Nancy G. Abudu, ACLU Voting Rights Project, Atlanta, Georgia, for amici curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Washington and American Civil Liberties Union. Lawrence S. Lustberg and Jennifer B. Condon, Gibbons P.C., Newark, New Jersey, for amici curiae National Black Police Association, National Latino Officers Association, American Probation and Parole Association and Six Former Law Enforcement Officials.
Case Number: No. 06-35669

Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 13034MUHAMMAD SHABAZZ FARRAKHAN, aka Ernest S. Walker; AL-KAREEM SHADEED; MARCUS X. PRICE; RAMON BARRIENTES; TIMOTHY SCHAAF; CLIFTON BRICENO

January 11, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Circuit Courts Split In Interpretation Of Immunities Act

Big changes may be afoot in the way that courts interpret the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in a break with precedent, ruled that the

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September 14, 2012 | The Recorder

Pro Bono Achievers

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Dahlia v. Rodriguez

Publication Date: 2012-08-07
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Date Filed: 2012-08-07
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Margaret M. Morrow, District Judge, Presiding Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw, Richard A. Paez, and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. McGill, Michael A. Morguess, and Russell M. Perry, Lackie, Dammeier & McGill APC, Upland, California, for plaintiff-appellant Angelo Dahlia.
for defendant: Michael Simidijan and Kenneth C. Yuwiler, Silver, Hadden, Silver, Wexler, & Levine, Santa Monica, California, for defendant-appellee Omar Rodriguez. Michael Logan Rains, Harry S. Stern and Lara CullinaneSmith, Rains, Lucia, Stern PC, Pleasant Hill, California, for defendant-appellee Edgar Penaranda. Patricia Kinaga and Arthur B. Walsh, Kinaga Law Firm, Los Angeles, California, and Gregory Glenn Petersen, Hunt, Ortmann, Nieves, Lubka, Darling & Mah, Inc., Irvine, California, for defendant-appellee Jose Duran. Patricia Kinaga and Arthur B. Walsh, Kinaga Law Firm, Los Angeles, California, and Gregory Glenn Petersen, Hunt, Ortmann, Nieves, Lubka, Darling & Mah, Inc., Irvine, California, for defendant-appellee Chris Canales. Carol Ann Humiston, Office of the City Attorney, Burbank, California, and Richard Terzian, Burke, Williams & Sorensen LLP, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee City of Burbank. Eugene Philip Ramirez and Steven Jeff Renick, Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee John Murphy. Carol Ann Humiston, Office of the City Attorney, Burbank, California, for defendant Tim Stehr.
Case Number: No. 10-55978

Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 8927 ANGELO DAHLIA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. OMAR RODRIGUEZ, individually and as a Lie

City of Dallas v. Stewart

Publication Date: 2012-02-01
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Date Filed: 2012-01-27
Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
Judge: Wallace B. Jefferson Chief Justice
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Case Number: NO. 09-0257

  Argued February 16, 2010CHIEF JUSTICE JEFFERSON delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by JUSTICE HECHT, JUSTICE MEDINA, JUSTICE WILLE

March 21, 2000 | New York Law Journal

Law Firms Taking Equity in High-Tech Clients Stirs Ambivalence

With dot-com fever continuing to rise in Silicon Alley, some of the city's oldest, largest and most conservative law firms have decided that they, too, want to be players in the new economy, even i

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People v. Superior Court (Kaulick)

Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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Date Filed: 2013-04-30
Court: C.A. 2nd
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Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie Lacey, District Attorney of Los Angeles County; Irene T. Wakabayashi, Head Deputy District Attorney, Roberta T. Schwartz, Beth L. Widmark and Phyllis C. Asayama, Deputy District Attorneys, for Petitioner.
for defendant: No appearance for Respondent. California Appellate Project, Jonathan D. Steiner, Executive Director, Richard B. Lennon, Suzan E. Hier and Cheryl A. Lutz, Staff Attorneys, for Real Party in Interest, Stephen Joseph Kaulick.
Case Number: No. B246632

Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 4312PEOPLE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT

Hord v. Environmental Research Institute of Michigan

Publication Date: 2000-10-12
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Date Filed: 2000-10-10
Court: Mich. Sup. Ct.
Judge: Weaver, Cavanagh, Kelly, Taylor, Corrigan, Young, Markman
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Case Number: No. 115369

The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. The plaintiff accepted a job with the defendant and moved to Michigan fr