• November 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    In Re Wells Fargo Mortgage Lending Discrimination Litigation The U.S. Supreme Court's June ruling in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Dukes might no

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  • January 24, 2013 | The Recorder

    Thompson v. Runnels

    9th Cir. 08-16186 The court of appeals affirmed an order of the district court. The court held that the California courts did not unreasonably apply clearly established Supreme C

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  • January 9, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Convictions of Stewart, Her Broker Are Upheld

    The convictions of Martha Stewart and her broker for obstructing a government investigation into a shady stock sale were easily affirmed Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circ

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  • September 6, 2005 | The Recorder

    Sexual Content Not Needed for Harassment

    You don't have to be a groper, lecher or explicit misogynist to get sued for sex-based harassment, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Friday.The opini

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  • March 1, 2009 |

    TOP 10 Litigation Wins of 2008

    By Pamela Sherrid, Theodora Blanchfield, Susan Hansen, Joe Mullin, Joe Rosenbloom, and Todd Stone In the landscape of civil litigation, where only a tiny fraction of disputes are conc

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  • May 14, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Kagan's Senate Questionnaire Tailored to Her Background

    Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has one fewer item to answer on her Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire than Justice Sonia Sotomayor had last year: the one about previous judicial office. /

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  • March 10, 2003 | Legal Times

    Court Approves 3 Strikes, Megan's Laws

    In a quartet of decisions handed down March 5, the Supreme Court gave its general approval to two tough-on-crime trends that swept the nation in the 1990s: Megan's laws and three-strikes

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  • August 27, 2003 | The Recorder

    9th Circuit Rules Some Securities Cases OK for State Court

    In a decision that could encourage attempts to litigate private securities cases before state judges, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday kicked an unfair competition suit out of f

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  • July 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Waiting for Volcker

    When Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s CEO, confirmed in May that his bank had suffered more than $2 billion in trading losses, the flood of commentary quickly tapped into one of the mo

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  • August 27, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    City Halted From Imposing New Rules on Artists New York City has been temporarily blocked from imposing its new system to manage the number of artist vendors at Union Square Park, Battery Park, the

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