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  • June 6, 2017 | The Recorder

    In re A.K.

    C.A. 3rd; C081545 The Third Appellate District affirmed dependency court orders. In the published portion of its opinion, the court held that the relative…

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  • June 6, 2017 | New York Law Journal

    Circuit, Quickly but Narrowly, Rejects Novel Insider Trading Theory

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit took little time ruling in favor of defendant Morgan Stanley on Tuesday, in a case that sought to test the circuit's insider trading precedent.

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  • Ho & Huang v. Parkway, 14-14-00528-CV (TexApp Dist 05/24/2017)

    Publication Date: 2017-06-06
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Landlord Tenant Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-24
    Court: Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth
    Judge: KEM THOMPSON FROST, CHIEF JUSTICE
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 14-14-00528-CV

    Parkway Dental Associates signed a five-year lease with appellant Ho & Huang Properties to run a dental office in a shopping center. The lease contained a provision that no competitive business,

  • Horizon v. Acadia, 15-0819 (TexApp Dist 05/26/2017)

    Publication Date: 2017-06-06
    Practice Area: Damages
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-26
    Court: Supreme Court of Texas
    Judge: PAUL W. GREEN, JUSTICE
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 15-0819

    Several upper-management employees of Horizon, which provides contract management services to hospitals, joined Acadia, where they began successfully competing with Horizon. Horizon sued the departi

  • USA v. Garcia, 16-10863 (5th Cir. 05/23/2017)

    Publication Date: 2017-06-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-23
    Court: United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
    Judge: EDWARD C. PRADO, CIRCUIT JUDGE
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 16-10863

    Garcia was involved in the armed robbery of a gun store with two accomplices. He pled guilty to one count of armed robbery and one count of possessing and discharging a firearm during a crime of vi

  • In re A.K.

    Publication Date: 2017-06-06
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-09
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robyn Truitt Drivon, County Counsel, and Lilly C. Frawley, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Lauren K. Johnson, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant A.L.
    Case Number: No. C081545

    Relative caregiver exception to adoption not applicable to minor in stable foster care placement (Butz, J.)

  • IAR Systems Software, Inc. v. Superior Court (Shehayed)

    Publication Date: 2017-06-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Software
    Date Filed: 2017-06-05
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Petitioners, IAR Systems Software, Inc.: Antonio Valla, Michael Purcell, Valla & Associates, Inc.
    for defendant: Counsel for Real Parties in Interest, Nadim Shehayed: Thomas J. Nolan, Serenity Wang, Nolan Barton Bradford & Olmos LLP.
    Case Number: No. A149087

    Crime victim's attorneys not part of "prosecution team" for purposes of discovery under Brady (Jenkins, J.)

  • June 6, 2017 | New York Law Journal

    U.S. Supreme Court Limits Disgorgement Claims to Five Years

    Bill Maguire, Sarah Cave and Ken Katz discuss the U.S. Supreme Court's decision this week that resolved a circuit split over whether the five-year statute of limitations that applies to any "action, suit or proceeding for the enforcement of any civil fine, penalty, or forfeiture, pecuniary or otherwise," covers claims for disgorgement imposed as a sanction for violating a federal securities law.

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  • June 5, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Are Item 303 Omissions Actionable Under Rule 10b-5?

    During its October term this year, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear argument in Leidos v. Indiana Public Retirement System, No. 16-581, on an important federal securities fraud issue: Whether a publicly held company's ­omission of "known trends and uncertainties" in its annual or interim reports, as required by Item 303 of Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) Regulation S-K, can give rise to a private securities fraud claim under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and SEC Rule 10b-5 (Rule 10-5).

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  • City of Galt v. Cohen (Callander Associates Landscape Architecture, Inc.)

    Publication Date: 2017-06-05
    Practice Area: Government | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-06-02
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Best Best & Krieger, Iris P. Yang, Kimberly E. Hood for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Douglas J. Woods, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Mark R. Beckington, Susan K. Smith, and John W. Killeen, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. C075897

    City's agreement with former redevelopment agency did not create enforceable obligations (Nicholson, Acting P.J.)