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  • September 19, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Lerach Agrees to Guilty Plea, One-to-Two-Year Prison Term Securities class action giant William S. Lerach yesterday agreed to plead guilty to a charge that he conspired to conce

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  • September 22, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Suspended Judge to Keep Salary Nassau District Judge David A. Gross, who is facing federal money laundering charges, will continue to receive his full pay even though he

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  • June 9, 2000 | Alm

    Court Tea Leaf Readers

    When the Supreme Court hands down its long-awaited decision on federal aid to parochial schools in Mitchell v. Helms, don't be surprised if Justice Clarence Thomas is the author of the

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  • April 19, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Text Messaging Heads to the Supreme Court

    The Supreme Court leaps today into the high-tech world of text messaging in a challenge with potentially huge implications for the privacy rights of senders and receivers and for workplace communic

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  • January 24, 2006 | Alm

    Did Dems Seal Their Defeat in Alito Hearings?

    There are a number of ways to fault the performance of Senate Democrats in their campaign to keep Samuel Alito Jr. - seemingly as rock-ribbed a conservative as you'll find - off the high court

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  • February 27, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    As Date With Playmate Approaches, High Court to Ponder Jurisdiction Issue

    Houston lawyer Rusty Hardin's last encounter with former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith was at a party in Kentucky on the eve of the 2003 Kentucky Derby. As Hardin tells it, he didn't have

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  • January 16, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Third Parties Shielded From Securities Suits

    WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday handed a solid win to third-party defendants in securities litigation - including law firms, accountants and bankers - by shielding them from broa

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  • February 22, 2010 | National Law Journal

    DOCKET WATCH

    The following cases are scheduled before the U.S. Supreme Court in the next two weeks. Docket Watch appears before each argument cycle when the high court hears cases.

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  • April 29, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Bankruptcy Judge Rejects Dreier Agreements The government and the trustees charged with liquidating the estate of disbarred attorney Marc S. Dreier and his defunct 250-a

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  • December 23, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Six Chief Judge Candidates Get State Bar's Highest Rating The New York State Bar Association yesterday gave six of the seven candidates nominated for chief

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