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February 28, 2008 | New York Law Journal

In re �Agent Orange� Product Liability Litigation

Decided Feb. 22, 2008Before Miner, Sack, and Hall, C.JJ.Appeals from final judgments of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Jack B. Weinstein, Ju

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September 8, 2009 | Special To Law.Com

Combining '33 and '34 Securities Act Plaintiffs in the Same Class

In an opinion of interest to both plaintiff and defense counsel, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that plaintiffs suing under the

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December 6, 2005 | New York Law Journal

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Cravath Swaine Announces Year-End Bonuses Cravath, Swaine & Moore will pay year-end bonuses ranging from $30,000 for first-year associates to $60,000 for senior assoc

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October 8, 2007 | New York Law Journal

2nd Circuit Reinstates Copyright Claims Against Singer

Copyright infringement claims can go forward against Mary J. Blige, the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul," the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Oct. 5, reversing a lower court determination. So

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November 14, 2007 | Legal Times

High Court May Shift in Cases Over Bad Lawyering

The Supreme Court in 1984 established new standards for assessing whether a lawyer's performance was so bad that his or her client's right to a fair trial was compromised. "An accused is ent

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November 1, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

Face the Music

You could call Michael Huppe the Zelig of the music industry. The energetic lawyer shows up at concerts, festivals, and panel discussions everywhere. He's at the South by Southwest fe

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April 27, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Class Action Against NY Law Firm Ends

A putative class action lawsuit alleging fraud and racketeering against Steven J. Baum P.C., an upstate law firm representing foreclosure lenders, and MERSCORP, the operator of an

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October 7, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Has the Fat Lady Finally Sung for Ron Perelman in the Billion-Dollar Morgan Stanley Fraud Case?

In August, when we last checked in on litigious gazillionaire Ronald Perelman, a New Jersey state court judge had just toss

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Renee v. Duncan

Publication Date: 2012-05-10
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Date Filed: 2012-05-10
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Phyllis J. Hamilton, District Judge, Presiding Before: Dorothy W. Nelson, William A. Fletcher and Richard C. Tallman, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Affeldt and Tara Kini, Public Advocates, Inc., San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.
for defendant: Alisa B. Klein, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees. Lisa A. Davis, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati P.C., Palo Alto, California, for The National Coalition of ESEA Title I Parents, Inc., et al., as amicus curiae. Donald B. Verilli, Jr., Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, D.C., for Teach for America, et al., as amicus curiae.
Case Number: No. 08-16661

Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 5106 SONYA RENEE; CANDICE JOHNSON, a minor, by Sonya Renee, her guardian ad litem; MARIBEL HEREDIA; JOSE ALDANA, a minor, by Maribel H

February 4, 2005 | National Law Journal

Law Schools vs. Defense Department

Is it principle or punishment? Necessity or symbolism? Constitutional or unconstitutional? A long-simmering dispute between the military and law schools over recruitment efforts that c

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