• September 22, 2016 | The American Lawyer

    McDermott Keeps Hiring, Plus More Lateral Moves

    McDermott Will & Emery, having just sorted through a

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  • MPS Merchant Services, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

    Publication Date: 2016-09-08
    Practice Area: Energy and Natural Resources
    Industry: Energy
    Date Filed: 2016-09-08
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and M. Margaret McKeown and Richard R. Clifton, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James P. Danley, Cheryl M. Foley, John Lee Shepherd, Jr., and John N. Estes III, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Washington, D.C., for Petitioners MPS Merchant Services, Inc., and Illinova Corporation.
    for defendant: Beth G. Pacella, Deputy Solicitor; Robert H. Solomon, Solicitor; Max Minzner, General Counsel; Washington, D.C.; as and for Respondent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

    Case Number: No. 15-73803 No. 15-73818 No. 15-73905 No. 15-73912 No. 16-70004 No. 16-70524 No. 16-70525 No. 16-70868

    Cite as 16 C.D.O.S. 9946 MPS MERCHANT SERVICES, INC., Petitioner, CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, Interve

  • Campaign for Quality Education v. State of California

    Publication Date: 2016-08-23
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Education Law
    Industry: Education
    Date Filed: 2016-04-20
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Appellants: Campaign for Quality Education et al.: John Thomas Affeldt, Tara Kini, Sophia Lai; PUBLIC ADVOCATES, INC., Martin R. Glick, Deborah S. Schlosberg, Sara J. Eisenberg, Gabriel N. White, Steven L. Mayer, ARNOLD & PORTER LLP, Rohit Kumar Singla, Leo Goldbard, MUNGER TOLLES & OLSON
    for defendant: Counsel for Respondent: State of California, Edmund G. Brown Jr., as Governor, Ana Matosantos, as Director of Finance, John Chiang, as State Controller, Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General of California, Julie Weng-Guiterrez, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Nimrod Elias, Ernest Martinez, Lisa Tillman, Jonathan E. Rich, Joshua Nathan Sondheimer, Pauline Gee, Ismael A. Castro, Supervising Deputy Attorney General

    Case Number: No. A134423 No. A134424

    Cite as 16 C.D.O.S. 9226 CAMPAIGN FOR QUALITY EDUCATION et al., Plaintiffs and Appellant

  • City of Montebello v. Vasquez

    Publication Date: 2016-08-08
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2016-08-08
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: AlvaradoSmith, Raul F. Salinas, Mary M. Monroe; Leibold McClendon & Mann, Leibold McClendon and John G. McClendon for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Revere & Wallace and Frank Revere for Defendants and Appellants.

    Case Number: No. S219052

    Cite as 16 C.D.O.S. 8499 CITY OF MONTEBELLO, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ROSEMARIE VASQ

  • July 25, 2016 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Portability and Protectionism

    Matters of fair trade and protectionism have always been provocative. They were provocative early last century, during the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft,

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  • July 15, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

    FERC Hits BP With $20M Fine for Alleged Texas Gas-Market Manipulation

    Federal energy regulators this week fined BP America Inc. more than $20 million for allegedly manipulating the natural gas market in Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike in 2008. B

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  • July 11, 2016 | National Law Journal

    Ex-DOJ Official Convicted in Abramoff Scandal Reinstated to the D.C. Bar

    Robert Coughlin II, a former U.S. Department of Justice official convicted in connection with the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, can practice law again. Coughlin, now 44, pleaded gui

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  • Whitfield v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-07-08
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timika Dennis and Zachary Taft Lister Holt LLC, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Pipkin, Solicitor General, and Mary Grace Bell Solicitor General's Office, McDonough, for appellee.

    Case Number: A16A0420

    The law enforcement officers had reasonable suspicion to believe that the defendant was violating the terms of his probation by using drugs, and the trial court did not err in denying the defendant'

  • Associated Builders and Contractors of Texas v. National Labor Relations Board, 15-50497 (5th Cir. 06/10/2016)

    Publication Date: 2016-07-01
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2016-06-10
    Court: United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
    Judge: EDITH BROWN CLEMENT CIRCUIT JUDGE
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 15-50497

    Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of TexasBefore CLEMENT and HAYNES, Circuit Judges, and GARCIA MARMOLEJO, District Court.A HREF

  • Commonwealth of Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle

    Publication Date: 2016-06-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Constitutional Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2016-06-09
    Court: U.S. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: No. 15–108

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 5958 COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, PETITIONER v. LUIS M. SANC