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  • May 11, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    The Two Views of 'Plain View'

    Editor's note: First of two parts The "plain view" doctrine of the Fourth Amendment holds that law enforcement properly authorized to be in a certain area can lawful

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  • April 19, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Battling the Bomb

    Jonathan Weisgall was a new associate at Covington & Burling in 1975 when a partner asked him to take a call about a possible new pro bono client. "Something about atomic bombs,"

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  • January 31, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    Getting Fired: Don't Deal With the In-House Counsel and Deal With It Publicly?

    This is the kind of bad review that in-house counsel never want to hear. Although, hey, it's impossible to please everybody right? Waaaaaay back in May 2008, Paul Hastings fired senio

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  • Gross v. Jodirell

    Publication Date: 2009-11-10
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    Date Filed: 2009-10-27
    Court: 2nd Cir.
    Judge: Straub, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 08-2626-cv

    Argued: May 20, 2009Before JACOBS, Chief Judge, STRAUB AND HALL, Circuit Judges.For nearly a year beginning in 2005, Daniel Gross, an octogenarian, had a conservatorship imposed for his estate a

  • Federal Trade Commission, Plaintiff-Appellee Bronson Partners, LLC, d/b/a New England Diet CTR, d/b/a/ Bronson Day Spa; Martin Howard; and H&H Marketing, LLC, Defendants-Appellants, Sandra Howard, Defendant*, 10-0878-cv

    Publication Date: 2011-08-25
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Calabresi, Wesley, and Lynch, C. JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellee: Lawrence Demille-Wagman, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC (Willard K. Tom, John F. Daly, on the brief) (Robin E. Eichen, Nur-ul-Haq, Federal Trade Commission, New York, NY, of counsel)
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellants: Steven P. Caley, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, New York, NY (Lewis M. Rose, Daniel S. Blynn, Damon W. Suden, on the brief)
    Case Number: 10-0878-cv

    Cite as: FTC v. Bronson Partners, LLC, 10-0878-cv, NYLJ 1202512259207, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided August 19, 2011)Before: Calabresi, Wesley, and Lynch,

  • United States of America v. Abdi Wali Dire

    Publication Date: 2012-05-30
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    Date Filed: 2012-05-23
    Court: 4th Cir.
    Judge: King, Circuit Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 11-4310,, No. 11-4311,, No. 11-4312,, No. 11-4313,, No. 11-4317

    PUBLISHEDArgued: September 20, 2011Before KING, DAVIS, and KEENAN, Circuit Judges.Affirmed by published opinion. Judge King wrote the opinion, in which Judge Davis and Judge Keenan j

  • LaBarge Pipe & Steel Co. v. First Bank

    Publication Date: 2008-11-26
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    Date Filed: 2008-11-24
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: Garwood, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 07-30441

    Before JONES, Chief Judge, GARWOOD, and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.Plaintiff-appellant, LaBarge Pipe & Steel Co. (LaBarge), appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment for defendants-appe

  • Sonnier v. Crain

    Publication Date: 2010-07-30
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    Date Filed: 2010-07-27
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: W. Eugene Davis, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 09-30186

    Before GARWOOD, DAVIS, and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.The appellant Jeremy Sonnier challenges the denial of a preliminary injunction seeking to enjoin enforcement of the speech policy regulating the ti

  • Lubin v. Farmers Group, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-11-10
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    Date Filed: 2009-11-06
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 3
    Judge: David Puryear, Justice
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 03-03-00374-CV

    ON REMANDMEMORANDUM OPINIONThe issue in this interlocutory appeal is whether the class action filed by the attorney general in this case was properly certified. Under former article 21.21, secti

  • Simmons v. Ware

    Publication Date: 2013-02-14
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    Date Filed: 2013-02-13
    Court: C.A. 4th
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: McGuinn, Hillsman & Palefsky and John R. Hillsman for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Harrington, Foxx, Dubrow & Canter LLP, Daniel E. Kenney and John D. Tullis for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. G045886 consol. w/ G046287

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 1815SARA MICHELLE SIMMONS, as Special Administrator, etc., Plaintiff and Respondent,v.