• November 4, 2002 | Legal Times

    Docket Watch

    Below are the cases before the Supreme Court in the coming weeks and the lawyers who will argue them. "Docket Watch" appears at the beginning of each two-week argument cycle when the high c

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  • May 22, 2012 | Litigation Daily

    Antitrust Plaintiffs Score First Settlement in Chinese Vitamin C Litigation

    Long-running private U.S. antitrust litigation against a quartet of Chinese vitamin C manufacturers may not involve the same eye-popping damages claims as some other price-fixing suits, but i

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  • October 10, 2006 | Legal Times

    Near-recusal for Justice Breyer

    IN HIS FINANCIAL disclosure form for the year 2005, Justice Stephen Breyer reported that he owned up to $50,000 of common stock in Duke Energy Corp., which supplies power to more than 2 milli

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  • August 19, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Am Law 200 Cafeterias Clean Up Their Act

    Clarification, 8/20/13, 4:340 p.m. EDT: This story has been revised throughout to clarify that, except where explicitly noted, all references to 2012 health code violati

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  • July 1, 2009 | Focus Europe

    Arbitration Scorecard: Contracts

    AMOUNT IN CONTROVERSY: $28 billion (including $9 billion counterclaim) DISPUTE: OJSC Yukos Oil Company (Russian Federation) v. Kravin Investments Ltd., White P

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  • May 26, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Sidebar

    IN THE WAITING ROOMTwenty-six people claim to have blown the whistle on Columbia/ HCA, the world's largest health care company, which is in a world of trouble. When the company agreed

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  • July 23, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Peet's Coffee Goes Private With Help From Skadden, Cooley

    A decade after going public, Peet's Coffee & Tea has agreed to be taken private by German conglomerate Joh. A. Benckiser for $974 million. The d

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  • August 21, 2003 | National Law Journal

    A Rogue to Catch a Rogue

    In the spring of 1995, the Bayer Corp. had a problem.One of the drug maker's major customers, the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, was demanding a price break on an antibiotic t

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  • June 10, 2003 | National Law Journal

    9th Circuit Spurns U.S. Over Alien Tort Claims

    An attempt by the Bush administration and the business community to halt federal court litigation against corporations sued for human rights violations abroad appears to have suffered a major

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  • December 9, 2008 | Legal Times

    Obama could shift 4th Circuit to left

    Barack Obama carried Virginia and North Carolina in the presidential election-and he may be about to win the federal appellate circuit that covers those states as well. With four vacan

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