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  • August 5, 2003 | The Recorder

    Justices Bless Method Gays Use to Adopt

    Second-parent adoptions, widely used by same-sex couples to form families, were declared legal Monday by the California Supreme Court.The 6-1 ruling legitimizes as many as 20,000 adopt

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  • Mira Mar Development Corp. v. City of Coppell

    Publication Date: 2012-03-27
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    Date Filed: 2012-03-23
    Court: Tx. App. Dist. 5
    Judge: Justice Myers
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    Case Number: 05-10-00283-CV

    AFFIRM in part; Reverse in part, Render in part, and RemandOPINIONBefore Justices Lang, Murphy, and MyersThis case involves an appeal from a city council hearing to a dis

  • January 13, 2003 | The Recorder

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    OCEAN-GOING ATTORNEY CAN'T KEEP CASE AFLOATAfter joining the Marin Yacht Club in San Rafael in 1981, now-retired lawyer John Ford registered several complaints over the years.

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  • October 3, 2001 | The Associated Press

    Quiltmaker Loses Dispute Over Use of Designs in Movie

    A Maryland quiltmaker responsible for designs in the 1995 movie "How to Make an American Quilt" will not get a chance to argue that Hollywood stiffed her. The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday

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  • August 19, 2013 | National Law Journal

    What's a Class Action Plaintiff To Do?

    With increasing frequency, I am being asked by class action plaintiffs lawyers about what to do before, during and after a bankruptcy filing by the defendant corporation. Issues commonly beg

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  • May 11, 2011 | The Recorder

    People v. Riazati

    C.A. 4th D056670 The Fourth Appellate District affirmed a judgment of conviction. The court held that a defendant could not challenge on appeal the very instruction that he, throug

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  • August 20, 2013 | National Law Journal

    What's A Class-Action Plaintiff To Do?

    With increasing frequency, I am being asked by class-action plaintiffs lawyers about what to do before, during and after a bankruptcy filing by the defendant corporation. Issues commonly beg

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  • February 14, 2007 | Daily Business Review

    Chicken Kitchen Settlement Highlights Franchisers' Liability Risks

    After losing a trial on the issue of franchise liability, a fast-food chain has agreed to pay $2 million to settle an auto accident lawsuit involving a delivery driver for one of its franchisees.

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  • Freeman Investments, L.P. v. Pacific Life Insurance Company

    Publication Date: 2013-01-02
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    Date Filed: 2013-01-02
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: David O. Carter, District Judge, Presiding Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Stephen S. Trott, and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee A. Sherman, Callahan Thompson Sherman & Caudill LLP, Tustin, California; Stephen R. Miller and John J. Schirger, Miller Schirger LLC, Kansas City, Missouri; and Patrick J. Stueve and Richard M. Paul III (argued), Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP, Kansas City, Missouri, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: James C. Martin (argued), Robert D. Phillips Jr., Thomas A. Evans and David J. Bird, Reed Smith LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendant-Appellee.
    Case Number: No. 09-55513

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 60 FREEMAN INVESTMENTS, L.P.; DARREL FREEMAN IRREVOCABLE TRUST; FREEMAN JOINT IRREVOCABLE TRUST, individually and on behalf of a class

  • August 25, 2006 | Legal Times

    Has Time Softened D.C. Circuit Nominee's Partisan Edges?

    In the spring of 1987, President Ronald Reagan was facing a storm of criticism for his belated response to the AIDS epidemic. In response, the White House had decided to form a presidential commiss

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