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  • March 19, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

    The Fight Against Medical Monitoring Actions

    Companies in many industries face class action lawsuits by individuals who allegedly have been exposed to hazardous substances associated with the companies’ products. In many cases, p

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  • March 18, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Will Robinson Township Lead to New York-Style Land Use Control Suits?

    Editor's note: The authors represented Lenape Resources as counsel of record at the tria t level in challenging Avon's municipal ordinance. Burt was involved in tria

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  • Grimes v. BNSF Railway Co.

    Publication Date: 2014-03-18
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    Date Filed: 2014-03-18
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: PER CURIAM
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 13-60382

    Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi Before SM

  • March 17, 2014 | National Law Journal

    'Sweetheart Deal' for Figure in Campaign Corruption Case

    Jeffrey Thompson, a Washington businessman who pleaded guilty on March 10 to funneling millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions, got a "sweetheart deal" from prosecuto

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  • San Francisco Unified School District v. First Student, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2014-03-12
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    Date Filed: 2014-03-11
    Court: C.A. 1st
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Baron & Budd, P.C., Thomas M. Sims and Laura J. Baughman; April M. Strauss; Environmental Law Foundation and James Wheaton, for plaintiff and appellants. Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Martin Goyette, Assistant Attorney General, Larry G. Raskin, Deputy Attorney General, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of for plaintiffs and appellants.
    for defendant: Reed Smith LLP, Jesse L. Miller, Dennis Peter Maio, James M. Neudecker and Matthew T. Peters, for defendant and respondent.
    Case Number: No. A136986

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 2593 SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT ex rel. MANUEL CONTRERAS et al.,Plaintiffs and Appellan

  • March 12, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

    'Daimler' and US Jurisdiction Over Foreign Corporations

    For many lawyers, the words “personal jurisdiction” do little more than invoke distant memories of a civil procedure course in law school, or perhaps a tortured essay question on

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  • International Business Machines Corp. v. Simonson, 8089/2010

    Publication Date: 2014-03-11
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    Court: Supreme Court, Westchester County
    Judge: Justice Francesca Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for the plaintiff: Mitchell G. Mandell, Esq., Reena S. Liebling, Esq., White and Williams, LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: Attorneys for the defendant: Marc A. Lebotwitz, Esq., Keith M. Getz, Esq., Lebowitz Law Office, LLC, New York, NY.
    Case Number: 8089/2010

    Cite as: International Business Machines Corp. v. Simonson, 8089/2010, NYLJ 1202646009996, at *1 (Sup., WE, Decided February 27, 2014)

  • Southern LNG Inc. v. MacGinnitie

    Publication Date: 2014-03-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lisa F. Stuckey, Herbert H. Gray III, Brian J. Morrissey, and William J. Seigler III Ragsdale, Beals, Seigler, Patterson & Gray LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, William W. Banks Jr., Warren R. Calvert, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, and Alex F. Sponseller, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1486

    On remand, the trial court must address questions regarding whether county tax appeals constitute an adequate alternative remedy precluding the plaintiff's mandamus claim seeking to compel the State

  • Meyers v. Board of Administration for the Federated City Employees Retirement Fund

    Publication Date: 2014-02-28
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    Date Filed: 2014-02-28
    Court: C.A. 6th
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Plaintiff/Appellant: William Meyers, Gates Eisenhart Dawson, Nicholas G. Emanuel
    for defendant: Counsel for Defendant/Respondent: Board of Administration for the Federated Employees Retirement Fund, Office of the City Attorney, Richard Doyle, City Attorney Nora Frimann, Assistant City Attorney, Margo Laskowska, Senior Deputy City Attorney, Reed Smith, Jeffrey R. Rieger
    Case Number: No. H038351

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 2168 WILLIAM MEYERS, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. BOARD OF ADMINISTRA

  • February 26, 2014 | Legal Times

    Appeals Court Won't Tackle D.C. Attorney General Spat, For Now

    Update: A D.C. Superior Court judge on Wednesday dismissed the lawsuit challenging the de

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