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  • February 21, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    'Lopez Torres' Moves to High Court

    The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday agreed to review a ruling that struck down on constitutional grounds the convention system New York uses to nominate candidates for Supreme Court judgeships.

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  • July 19, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . The following have joined Brown McCarroll as of counsel at the firm's Austin office: Lynn Hamilton Butler, bankruptcy; and John R. Hathaway, family law. Also joinin

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  • March 9, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Court Has Second Thoughts in Tax Case

    A federal court declaring any portion of the tax code unconstitutional is enough to throw the Internal Revenue Service into paroxysms of anxiety. But last August's ruling from the D.C. Circuit

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  • August 27, 2004 | The Recorder

    Calif. Supremes Approve Wage-and-Hour Suit

    Employers got bad news Thursday when the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously that class certification was appropriate for hundreds of wage-and-hour suits.The much-awaited decisi

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  • July 25, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Linklaters Launches Litigation Practice in New YorkLinklaters has launched a New York-based litigation practice with the addition of four lawyers from Shearman & Sterling. P

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  • September 30, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    LEADERS FROM HILGERS . . . Hal Katz, a director at Hilgers & Watkins, recently was named vice chairman of the American Bar Association Managed Care & Insurance Interest G

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  • December 8, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS. . . Twenty new associates joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. In the San Antonio office, Louis J. Agnese joins the firm's corporate practice; Tamu K. Floyd-Walton

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  • September 18, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    For Congoleum Corp. Chapter 11, Tenth Time May Be the Charm

    Congoleum Corp. of Mercerville is poised to file a new Chapter 11 reorganization plan, its 10th in three years, and its chief executive officer says this one may actually do the trick.

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  • June 28, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Guilty verdict survives jurors' home study of indictment

    A man sentenced to a year in prison for his role in a Long Island mortgage fraud was not deprived of a fair jury trial because the jurors were allowed to take copies of the indictment home du

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  • December 22, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Pa. Supreme Court to Consider SEPTA's Immunity to FELA Claims

    The state Supreme Court granted an appeal in a case of first impression regarding whether SEPTA is immune from railroad workers' lawsuits filed in state court under federal law. The appeal w

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