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  • August 1, 2007 | Daily Business Review

    Federal Judge Rejects Homeowners' Lawsuit Against Major Mortgage Registry

    A federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit filed by homeowners who cast doubt on the legitimacy of the nation's leading mortgage registration firm to represent lenders in foreclo

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  • November 18, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Former Qwest GC Tempest Under Scrutiny

    The latest ex-general counsel to come under government scrutiny: Drake Tempest, former legal chief at Qwest Communications International Inc. In their investigation of possible wrongdo

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  • In re Thorpe Insulation Company

    Publication Date: 2012-01-24
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    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2012-01-24
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Dale S. Fischer, District Judge, Presiding Before: Mary M. Schroeder and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Richard Seeborg, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Patterson (argued), Kenneth N. Klee, Daniel J. Bussel, and David M. Guess, Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jeremy V. Richards and Scotta E. McFarland, Pachulski, Stang, Diehl & Jones LLP, Los Angeles, California, for appellee Thorpe Insulation Company. John A. Lapinski and Leslie R. Horowitz, Clark & Trevithick, P.L.C., Los Angeles, California, for appellee Pacific Insulation Company. Peter Van N. Lockwood (argued), Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, Washington, D.C.; Peter J. Benvenutti, Jones Day, San Francisco, California, for appellee Counsel for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Thorpe Insulation Company and Pacific Insulation Company. Gary Fergus, Fergus, A Law Office, San Francisco, California, for appellee Charles B. Renfrew, the Futures Representative.
    for defendant: David C. Christian, II (argued), Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Chicago, Illinois; James M. Harris, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Los Angeles, California; Todd C. Jacobs, Grippe & Elden LLC, Chicago, Illinois, for appellants Continental Insurance Company and National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford. Tancred V. Schiavoni, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, New York; Richard B. Goetz, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jonathan Hacker, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C.; Alan S. Berman, the Berman Law Group, Woodland Hills, California, for appellants Motor Vehicle Casualty Company, Central National Insurance Company of Omaha, and Century Indemnity Company, successor to Cigna Specialty Insurance Company f/k/a California Union Insurance Company.
    Case Number: No. 10-56543 No. 10-56622

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 939 In the Matter of: THORPE INSULATION COMPANY, Debtor, MOTOR VEHICLE CASUALTY COMPANY; CENTRAL NATIONAL INS

  • April 5, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Ex-Mobil Workers Awarded Nearly $6 Million

    In an ERISA decision worth nearly $6 million, a federal judge has ruled that 52 former employees of Mobil Corp. who were not hired by the newly formed Exxon Mobil Corp. after a 1999 merger are

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  • June 13, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

    High Court Paves Easier Road to Jury for Discrimination Plaintiffs

    Employment discrimination lawyers on both sides of the aisle seem to agree that the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision Monday in Desert Palace Inc. v. Costa [digested in this issue

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  • August 28, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Mortgage Downturn Cited in Dismissal of Securities Case Against Merrill Lynch

    The folks at Merrill Lynch have discovered that even clouds as big and ugly as the recent meltdown in the mortgage industry can sometimes have the glimmer of a silver lining. A federal judg

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  • August 1, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    Harassment By Stereotype

    Gay male workers suing for sex discrimination under Title VII have had little success with the argument that they were harassed because they failed to live up to the "stereotype" of being a ma

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  • February 3, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    21st Century Fox

    For the past two decades, Louis Fryman has been the face of management at Fox Rothschild. But now he and fellow veteran partner Stanley Cohen are making way for a new generation of leadership

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  • June 2, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Stern to Announce Retirement from Conduct CommissionGerald Stern, counsel and administrator to the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, is expected to announce today that he wi

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  • March 23, 2007 | National Law Journal

    9th Circuit Ruling Opens Way for Pensions as Restitution

    When it comes to compensating crime victims, the sacred cow of untouchable pension funds now may be a cash cow for federal prosecutors wanting to tap white-collar defendants for substantial restitu

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