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  • District 29, United Mine Workers of Am. v. United Mine Workers of Am. 1992 Benefit Plan

    Publication Date: 1999-06-03
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    Date Filed: 1999-06-03
    Court: United States Court of Appeals for The Fourth Circuit
    Judge: WILKINSON, Chief Judge, and HAMILTON and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter Buscemi, MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS, L.L.P., Washington, D.C.
    for defendant: Erin Magee Condaras, JACKSON & KELLY, Charleston, West Virginia
    Case Number: No. 98-1215

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion.OPINION WILKINSON, Chief Judge: Patsy Trucking, Incorporated fraudulently transferred its as

  • January 25, 2008 | New York Law Journal

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    D.C. Law Firm Hit With $30 Million Malpractice Suit Blackwater Security filed a $30 million malpractice suit against Washington, D.C., law firm Wiley Rein on Wednesday, alleging

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  • October 6, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Errors Lead 2nd Circuit to Order New Damages Trial in Employment Case

    A former consultant at an online investment company has successfully argued that, as a result of errors made by the district court judge overseeing his case, he is entitled to a new trial. A

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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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    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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