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  • October 4, 1999 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Unsettling Contracts

    You've seen the TV ads: If you have a structured legal settlement, there are numbers to call right now to turn an income trickle into a jackpot of cash. Settlement-buying companies in New Yo

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  • October 31, 2012 | Litigation Daily

    Samsung Presses Apple to Disclose When It Learned of Alleged Juror Misconduct

    Earlier this month, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. launched a bid to undo its recent $1 billion loss to Apple Inc. on juror misconduct grounds. Now Samsung's lawyers are demanding to know whe

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  • April 9, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Apartheid Cases Against Multinationals Can Proceed in Manhattan Federal Court

    On Wednesday, Manhattan federal district court judge Shira Scheindlin denied motions to dismiss Alien Tort Claims Act suits brought against Ford, General Motors, IBM, UBS, and others by South Africans

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  • January 10, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    High Court Favors Primacy of Arbitration Act (Again) in CompuCredit Case

    On Tuesday, putting an end to four years of litigation between holders of the Aspire Visa card and CompuCredit Corporation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that credit repair organizations can requi

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  • March 7, 2000 | The Recorder

    The Salary Gap

    Edwin Prather went to Pepperdine University School of Law on a scholarship, summered at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, and clerked for Central District Judge Robert Takasugi. Then th

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  • October 10, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Cerberus, Innkeepers Trial Postponed; Parties in Talks over Scuttled $1.1 Billion Deal

    In August, when Cerberus Capital Management and Chatham Lodging Trust invoked a material adverse change clause and walked away from a $1.12 billion deal to buy 64 Innkeepers hotels, the bankrupt

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  • Ralphs Grocery Company v. United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 8

    Publication Date: 2010-07-19
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    Date Filed: 2010-07-19
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Morrison & Foerster, Miriam A. Vogel, Timothy F. Ryan, and Tritia M. Murata, for Plaintiff and Appellant. Littler Mendelson, William J. Emanuel, and Natalie Rainforth for Employers Group, California Grocers Association, and California Hospital Association, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Davis, Cowell & Bowe, Sarah Grossman-Swenson, Elizabeth A. Lawrence, and Andrew J. Kahn, for Defendant and Respondent. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, J. Matthew Rodriquez, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, Solicitor General, Louis Verdugo, Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, Angela Sierra and Antonette Benita Cordero, Deputy Attorneys General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. C060413

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 9208RALPHS GROCERY COMPANY, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS

  • November 1, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Let A Thousand Branch Offices Bloom

    It is only 45 years since the Revolution of 1911, but the face of China has completely changed. In another 45 years, that is, in the year 2001, or the beginning of the twenty-first century,

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  • September 11, 2001 | The Recorder

    California Law Firms, Courts Close in Wake of New York, D.C. Terrorism

    Stunned by Tuesday's terrorist attacks that brought down New York's twin World Trade Center towers and devastated the Pentagon, San Francisco officials shut down the vulnerable Civic Center re

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  • July 22, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Public Interest Projects

    New Trial for Death Row InmateFor the past six years, pro bono lawyers at Davis, Polk & Wardwell in New York have worked on behalf of a mentally retarded client on Ge

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