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  • March 22, 2006 | Legal Times

    Case Tests Scope of Patentability

    WASHINGTON � U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared reluctant Tuesday to decide a key patent law case in a way that would, as one justice put it, establish "monopolies in this country beyond bel

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  • November 17, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Third-party liability still lurks

    The notion of vicarious liability should be foreign to the area of franchising. The premise of franchising is to provide a business format by which independent businesspeople can profit

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  • March 11, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Panel Faults Mail-Reading in Consensual Vehicle Search

    A Vermont state trooper violated the constitutional rights of a motorist when he read a letter he discovered after the motorist consented to a search of the vehicle, the U.S. Court of Appeals

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  • November 23, 2005 | Alm

    Fee Reduction Over 'Dismal' Work Upheld

    A federal judge in Brooklyn was correct to reduce the fees of an attorney who offered "dismal" representation and to refer the lawyer to two disciplinary committees, a unanimous panel of the 2

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  • February 11, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Technology Rises in New Administration

    In the months leading up to his inauguration, President Barack Obama, like any modern lawyer, a class="linelink" target="new" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=12024

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  • United States v. Donald Parnell, 06-4551-cr

    Publication Date: 2008-04-30
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    Date Filed: 2008-04-23
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: 06-4551-cr

    Before: Winter Straub, and Sack, C.JJ. U.S. COURT OF APPEALS SECOND CIRCUIT Mark D. Funk, Rochester, NY, for Defendant-Appellant. Stephan J. Baczynski, Assist

  • September 14, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    A Fairer Willfulness Test

    In a landmark and welcome decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Aug. 20 established a new, more difficult standard for proving willful patent infringement, while confi

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  • May 9, 2002 | National Law Journal

    Age Discrimination May Be Next Frontier for Employers

    There is no question that an employee who endures a hostile work environment because of race or sex discrimination may file a viable claim against his or her employer under Title VII of

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  • January 2, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Insurance Fraud

    The costs of insurance fraud to consumers and insurance carriers and to the economy as a whole, both here in New York and across the United States, are significant and are continuing to

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  • In Re the Office of the Attorney General

    Publication Date: 2013-03-13
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    Date Filed: 2013-03-08
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Debra H. Lehrmann Justice
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    Case Number: NO. 11-0255

    ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUSArgued February 27, 2012JUSTICE LEHRMANN delivered the opinion of the Court."The court may not find a respondent in contempt of court for failure to pay