• February 27, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Second Circuit Sends Case over $8.5 Billion BofA Deal Back to State Court

    The jurisdictional tug-of-war over Bank of America's $8.5

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  • November 8, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Bank of America Urges Second Circuit to Hear Appeal over Remand of $8.5 Billion MBS Settlement Case

    Bank of America's proposed $8.5 billion settlement with mortgage-backed securities investors was turned upside down by a href="

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  • August 21, 2002 | National Law Journal

    Asleep at the Trial

    Imagine you're the defendant in a trial. Millions of dollars, or your freedom or your life, is at stake. Yet you look around and find that the trial is putting people to sleep. What if that pe

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  • September 9, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Big Tobacco's SCOTUS Hopes Stay Dim After Latest Engle Ruling

    Tobacco companies haven't had any luck so far convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether Florida courts are viola

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  • September 29, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Cases Raise Issues Affecting Day-to-Day Practice of Law

    WASHINGTON - How lawyers do their jobs—from the type of advice they give clients to the calculation of fees—moves to the fore in the new U.S. Supreme Court term in six cases tha

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  • MCI Telecom. Corp. v. U.S. West Comm.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-02
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2000-03-02
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Alfred T. Goodwin, Mary M. Schroeder, and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Single
    for defendant: Sherilyn Peterson and Kirstin S. Dodge

    Case Number: No. 98-35819

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge: INTRODUCTION AND STATUTORY BACKGROUND This is an appeal

  • September 28, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Justices to Take Up Lawyer Ethics, Errors

    How lawyers do their jobs -- from the type of advice they give clients to the calculation of fees -- moves to the fore in the new U.S. Supreme Court term in six cases that could dramatically alter

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  • People v. Rafail Shnayder, et al.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-09
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Supreme Court, Kings County
    Judge: Robert Collini
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: et al.

    KINGS COUNTY Supreme Court Justice Collini The defendants move for a re-inspection of t

  • Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-09-09
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2010-09-08
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven M. Watt, Ben Wizner (argued), Jameel Jaffer and Steven R. Shapiro, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York; Ann Brick and Julia Harumi Mass, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, San Francisco, California; Paul Hoffman, Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman LLP, Venice, California; Hope Metcalf, National Litigation Project, Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Clive Stafford-Smith and Zachary KatzNelson, Reprieve, London, England, for plaintiff-appellant Binyam Mohamed. Margaret L. Satterthwaite and Amna Akbar, International Human Rights Clinic, Washington Square Legal Services, Inc., New York, New York, for plaintiff-appellant Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah.
    for defendant: Daniel P. Collins (argued), Paul J. Watford, Mark R. Yohalem and Henry Weissmann, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. Ian Heath Gershengorn, Michael F. Hertz, Joseph P. Russoniello, Douglas N. Letter (argued), Sharon Swingle and Michael P. Abate, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for intervenor-appellee United States of America. Gary Bostwick and Jean-Paul Jassy, Bostwick & Jassy LLP, Los Angeles, California, for amici curiae Professors William G. Weaver and Robert M. Pallitto. Barbara Moses and David J. Stankiewicz, Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C., New York, New York; Aziz Huq and Jonathan Hafetz, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, New York, New York, for amici curiae former United States diplomats. Wiliam J. Aceves, California Western School of Law, San Diego, California; Gerald Staberock and Carlos Lopez, International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland; Carla Ferstman, Lorna McGregor and Lucy Moxham, REDRESS, London, United Kingdom; Denna R. Hurwitz, Human Rights Program, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, for amici curiae REDRESS and the International Commission of Jurists. Stephen I. Vladeck, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.; Natalie L. Bridgeman, Law Offices of Natalie L. Bridgeman, San Francisco, California, for amici curiae professors of constitutional law, federal jurisdiction and foreign relations law. Andrew G. McBride, Thomas R. McCarthy and Stephen J. Obermeier, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Daniel J. Popeo and Richard A. Samp, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae Washington Legal Foundation and Allied Educational Foundation. Richard R. Wiebe, Law Office of Richard R. Wiebe, San Francisco, California; Cindy A. Cohn, Lee Tien, Kurt Opsahl, Kevin S. Bankston, Corynne Mcherry and James S. Tyre, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California, for amicus curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation. James M. Ringer, Clifford Chance US LLP, New York, New York, for amici curiae Commonwealth Lawyers Association and JUSTICE.

    Case Number: No. 08-15693

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 11814 BINYAM MOHAMED; ABOU ELKASSIM BRITEL; AHMED AGIZA; MOHAMED FARAG AHMAD BASHMILAH; BISHER AL-RAWI, Plaintiffs-Appellants, p class=

  • Brown v. State of Florida, 09-CV-1150

    Publication Date: 2009-07-08
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2009-06-24
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District
    Judge: Kiyo Matsumoto
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 09-CV-1150

    District Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto U.S. DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Judge Matsumoto MEMORANDUM AND ORD