• March 14, 2016 | The American Lawyer

    Akin Gump Health Leader Heads In-House, Plus More Lateral Moves

    JORGE LOPEZ JR., a longtime partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C., and head of the firm’s national health industry practice, will leave on

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  • March 11, 2016 | Legal Times

    Morning Wrap: Merrick Garland's Moment? | Feds Assail Apple

    ‘Apple’s rhetoric’: Federal prosecutors on Thursday slammed Apple Inc. for the company’s refusal to help agents unlock an iPhone in a natio

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  • March 10, 2016 | The American Lawyer

    Proskauer Beats Megabucks Class Action Over Work for Ponzi Schemer

    Proskauer Rose and Chadbourne & Parke are immune from liability for the conduct of a former partner at the firms who was accused of helping R. Allen Stanford orchestrate a $7 billion fra

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  • Downey v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Grossman, Public Defender, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Durden Jr., District Attorney, Joe G. Skeens, Sandra Dutton, Assistant District Attorneys, Hinesville, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Mary Catherine Greaber Attorney General's Office, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S15A1681

    The evidence was sufficient to support the defendant's convictions as a party to the crimes of murder and related off

  • March 10, 2016 | National Law Journal

    Court Shields Proskauer, Chadbourne From Investors' Stanford Claims

    Proskauer Rose and Chadbourne & Parke are immune from liability for the conduct of a former partner at the firms who investors accused of helping R. Allen Stanford orchestrate a $7

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  • Burton v. Davis

    Publication Date: 2016-03-10
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    Date Filed: 2016-03-10
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: A. Howard Matz, District Judge, Presiding Before: Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marcia A. Morrissey (argued), Santa Monica, California; Lisa M. Romo, Berkeley, California, for Petitioner-Appellee.
    for defendant: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General of California, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Keith H. Borjon, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Chung L. Mar (argued), Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, California, for Respondent-Appellant.

    Case Number: No. 13-55328

    Cite as 16 C.D.O.S. 2605 ANDRE BURTON, Petitioner-Appellee, v. RON DAVIS,* Warden, Cal

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-03-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence Daniel, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Fortner, District Attorney, Emily Richardson, and David Emadi District Attorney's Office, Douglasville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A15A1966

    The trial court properly denied the defendant's motion to suppress drug evidence officers discovered in his vehicle after a drug dog alerted to the presence of narcotics during a traffic stop, as t

  • March 8, 2016 | Daily Business Review

    Florida Supreme Court May Enter Abortion Fray

    An abortion case that may go to the Florida Supreme Court tracks the Texas abortion tumult in the U.S. Supreme Court. The situations and stakes are different. The eight justices in Wa

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  • March 4, 2016 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Unapproved Opinions for the Week of March 7

    01-2- 9310 In the Matter of Jusino, App. Div. (per curiam) (11 pp.) Appellant Jusino appealed from the final decision of respondent New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, which found tha

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  • Hedlund v. Ryan

    Publication Date: 2016-03-04
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    Date Filed: 2016-03-04
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: David G. Campbell, District Judge, Presiding Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw, Carlos T. Bea, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paula Kay Harms, Federal Public Defender's Office, Phoenix, Arizona, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Jon Anderson, Arizona Attorney General's Office, Phoenix, Arizona, for Respondent-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 09-99019

    Cite as 16 C.D.O.S. 2418 CHARLES MICHAEL HEDLUND, Petitioner-Appellant, v. CHARLES L.