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  • December 28, 2000 | Legal Times

    Back in the Ring

    Partisan politics reared its head frequently in the Washington, D.C., federal courts in 2000.At year's end, the U.S. District Court remained under the cloud of a politically charged sp

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  • May 27, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Voter ID Challenges to Continue Across U.S.

    Lawyers challenging the constitutionality of voter identification laws across the country said that last month's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld a voter identification law in Indiana,

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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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