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  • July 22, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    A Jury of Our Peers

    Call it American schizophrenia. Or perhaps it's a simple case of hubris. What ever it is, the United States' refusal to submit to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court at the Hague s

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  • March 7, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Legal Aid Society Elects New Directors, Officers

    Twenty-four directors were elected last week to the Legal Aid Society's Board of Directors during the group's 128th annual meeting at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. First ti

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  • February 10, 2003 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible

    ENRON INVESTIGATOR FOCUSES ON N.Y. FIRMSThree law firms at the center of the Enron Corp. bankruptcy have now become targets of a formal discovery effort launched by a court-appointe

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  • September 4, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Justices Retool Common Law Doctrines

    The 2005-2006 Supreme Court term did not feature any blockbuster decisions in tort law. There were cases where the justices retooled common law doctrines like res ipsa and respondeat superior.

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  • United States v. Black

    Publication Date: 2008-07-03
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    Date Filed: 2008-06-25
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: Posner, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: Nos. 07-4080, 08-1030, 08-1072, 08-1106

    ARGUED JUNE 5, 2008Before POSNER, KANNE, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.At the end of a four-month trial, the jury convicted the defendants of mail and wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 134

  • Phillips v. Roy, 9:08-CV-878 (FJS/ATB)

    Publication Date: 2011-09-08
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Northern District
    Judge: District Judge Frederick J. Scullin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Plaintiff pro se: Ralph Buck Phillips, 06-B-3437, Clinton Correctional Facility, Dannemora, NY.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Defendants: Office of the New York State Attorney General, of Counsel James B. Mcgowan, AAG, James Seaman, AAG, Albany, NY.
    Case Number: 9:08-CV-878 (FJS/ATB)

    Cite as: Phillips v. Roy, 9:08-CV-878 (FJS/ATB), NYLJ 1202513642071, at *1 (NDNY, Decided August 29, 2011)District Judge Frederick J. Scullinp class=

  • July 8, 1999 | The Recorder

    Pacific Lumber Loses Effort to Win EPIC Fees

    Pacific Lumber Co. went out on a limb when it tried to recover $670,000 in attorneys fees from its longtime foe, the Humboldt County environmental group Environmental Protection Information Center

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  • March 29, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Yah Drive Me Crazy: Attorneys Argue Over Venue for Toyota Litigation

    More than 100 lawyers packed a downtown San Diego federal courtroom on Thursday to hear arguments about which court is best prepared to hear the increasing number of lawsuits filed against

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  • Otto May, Jr v. Chrysler Group, LLC

    Publication Date: 2012-08-24
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    Date Filed: 2012-08-23
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: Tinder, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 11-3000,, 11-3109

    ARGUED APRIL 13, 2012Before BAUER, KANNE, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.More than fifty times between 2002 and 2005, Otto May, Jr., a pipefitter at Chrysler's Belvedere Assembly Plant, was th

  • November 27, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Short Attention Span Theater

    One school of legal scholarship posits that civil laws arose not so much from religious or geographical influences, but from a collection of folk stories that put into statute that what was p

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