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  • May 14, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Reducing the Risk of Successor Liability in Business Partnerships

    Like a skeleton lurking in a closet, successor liability isn’t the sort of thing a ny wants to inherit when it takes on a new business partner. That’s particularly true as U.S.

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  • United States v. Martha Stewart

    Publication Date: 2004-05-11
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    U.S. District Court Southern District of New York Judge Cedarbaum Defendant Martha Stewart moves for a new trial pursuant to Fed.R.Cr.P. 33 or, alternatively, an

  • Wesbrook v. Thaler

    Publication Date: 2009-11-03
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    Date Filed: 2009-10-13
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: E. Grady Jolly, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 08-70024

    Published opinionREVISED October 27, 2009Before JOLLY, DENNIS, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.Coy Wayne Wesbrook was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for murdering Gloria Coons a

  • July 15, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Can Congress Cure Corporate Governance?

    On May 19, Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., introduced the Shareholder Bill of Rights Act of 2009 in the U.S. Senate. Arguably, it is one of the most significant efforts by Con

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  • April 21, 2000 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Daily Decision Alert: Vol. 8, No. 78 -- April 21, 2000

    STATE COURT CASELABOR -- CATHOLIC SCHOOLS25-4-3514 South Jersey Catholic Teachers Organization, et al. v. Diocese of Camden, et al., Chancery Div. (Gibson, J.S.C.) (24 pp.) Th

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  • Royal Charter Properties Inc. v. Pierre

    Publication Date: 2005-01-19
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    NEW YORK COUNTY Civil Court Judge Capella According to the petition and the 2003 and 2004 Annual Apartment Registrations, the petitioner, Royal Charter Properties, In

  • August 14, 2001 | Legal Times

    Money Trouble

    It tripped up Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's senior adviser. And it has kept Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's lawyers and financial advisers busy for months.It's the law that

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  • November 26, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Judge Faults Corroboration of Teen's Sex Abuse Claim

    A Family Court judge has declined to make a finding that a teenager had been sexually abused in a case where the girl disappeared in the middle of proceedings and the judge said her incomplet

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  • March 20, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    The Out-Of-Towners

    It is over breakfast at The New York Palace that Les Viner, the managing partner of Toronto's Torys, pulls out a hardcover copy of "Star-Spangled Canadians: Canadians Living the American

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  • United States v. Diallo, 09 CR 858

    Publication Date: 2009-12-07
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    Date Filed: 2009-11-24
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
    Judge: Shira Scheindlin
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    Case Number: 09 CR 858

    District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Appearances: For the Government: Kan Nawaday, Assistant United States Attorney,