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  • March 11, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    United States v. Jose Armando Leiva-Deras

    Decided Feb. 17, 2004Before Newman, Cardamone and Sotomayor, C.JJ. The United States appeals from a judgment entered on September 13, 2002 in the United States District Court for

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  • September 12, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

    3rd Circuit: Adversary Proceeding Needed to Modify Lien Rights

    In SLW Capital LLC v. Mansaray-Ruffin (In re Mansaray-Ruffin) , the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed that a Chapter 13 debtor may only modify the lien rights of a secured

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  • May 21, 2007 | Legal Times

    Penalty Box: Sandy Berger Gives Up D.C. Law License

    While many lawyers facing disbarment battle tooth and nail to the bitter end, Sandy Berger, President Bill Clinton's national security adviser, has agreed to relinquish his D.C. law lice

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  • July 13, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Employment Law Issues

    In the quiet halls of the NASD, where investment banks and their employees tend to hash out their differences with a bit less public clamor than across town in New York Supreme Court, statemen

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  • February 23, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    N.Y. High Court Finds Undocumented Aliens Can Sue for Lost Wages

    Undocumented aliens who have no right to work in this country but are nonetheless injured on the job can sue for lost wages under New York Labor Law, a divided Court of Appeals held Tuesday in

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  • Martinez v. Regents of University of California

    Publication Date: 2010-11-15
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    Date Filed: 2010-11-15
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Immigration Reform Law Institute, Kris W. Kobach; Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley and Michael J. Brady for Plaintiffs and Appellants. Lawrence J. Joseph for Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants. Daniel J. Popeo, Richard A. Stamp; Law Offices of Mark E. Foster and Mark E. Foster for U.S. Representative Lamar Smith, U.S. Representative Steve King, Washington Legal Foundation and Allied Educational Foundation as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants. Sharon L. Browne and Ralph W. Kasarda for Pacific Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Charles F. Robinson, Christopher M. Patti, Margaret L. Wu; Howard Rice Nemervoski Canady Falk & Rabkin, Robert D. Hallman; Folger Levin & Kahn, Crowell & Moring, Ethan P. Schulman and Trina D. McAlister for Defendants and Respondents The Regents of the University of California and Mark G. Yudof. Christine Helwick and Andrea M. Gunn for Defendants and Respondents Board of Trustees of the California State University and Charles B. Reed. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, David S. Chaney, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gordon Burns, Deputy State Solicitor General, Douglas M. Press, Assistant Attorney General, and Julie Weng-Gutierrez, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendants and Respondents California Community Colleges and Chancellor Marshall Drummond. Multicultural Education, Training and Advocacy (META) Inc., and Peter D. Roos for Californians Together, The Association of Mexican American Educators and the California Association of Bilingual Education as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents. Julie A. Su, Yungsuhn Park, Carmina Ocampo; Bird, Marella, Boxer, Woolpert, Nessim, Drooks & Lincenberg, Paul S. Chan and Jennifer S. Chang for Asian Pacific American Legal Center and 80 Asian Pacific American organizations as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.
    Case Number: No. S167791

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 14298ROBERT MARTINEZ et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF

  • July 2, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Sources: Senators Agree on New Federal Judges Package

    Sources say the White House has tentatively signed off on a package of five judicial nominees proposed by Pennsylvania Sens. Arlen Specter and Robert Casey that would fill all of the vac

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  • July 22, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Expected Defense No Basis for Removal To Federal Court

    When plaintiffs in a state court defamation suit anticipate a defense and respond to it in their opening pleading by citing to the First Amendment, the defense cannot then seize up

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  • September 23, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Illegal Aliens Can Seek Lost Wages, Panel Says

    Sharply splitting with its colleagues in Manhattan, the Appellate Division, Second Department, yesterday ruled that undocumented aliens involved in workplace accidents can sue for lost wages.

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  • Trinidad y Garcia v. Thomas

    Publication Date: 2012-06-08
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    Date Filed: 2012-06-08
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Margaret M. Morrow, District Judge, Presiding Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Harry Pregerson, Sidney R. Thomas, Susan P. Graber, Kim McLane Wardlaw, William A. Fletcher, Marsha S. Berzon, Richard C. Tallman, Richard R. Clifton, Milan D. Smith, Jr., and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Craig Anthony Harbaugh (argued) and Sean Kevin Kennedy, Federal Public Defender?s Office, Los Angeles, California, for the petitioner-appellee. Lee Gelernt and Jennifer Chang Newell, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York, and San Francisco, California, for amicus American Civil Liberties Union.
    for defendant: Douglas Neal Letter (argued), Lisa Olson and Scott R. McIntosh, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Washington, D.C.; Daniel Scott Goodman and Michael J. Raphael, Office of the United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California, for the respondent-appellant.
    Case Number: No. 09-56999

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 6276 HEDELITO TRINIDAD Y GARCIA, Petitioner-Appellee, v. LINDA THOMAS,* Warden, Metro