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  • Acosta v. Artuz

    Publication Date: 2009-08-07
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    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2009-08-04
    Court: 2nd Cir.
    Judge: Reena Raggi, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 05-4196-pr

    Argued: April 7, 2008Before: WALKER, CABRANES, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.Petitioner Victor Acosta was convicted after a jury trial on one count of murder in the second degree on a theory of felo

  • November 22, 2004 | The Recorder

    Form Response

    With the increased scrutiny brought on by various high-level prosecutions in the securities industry -- the case against Martha Stewart being but the latest example -- employers in that indust

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  • August 31, 2012 | The Recorder

    A Singing Sendoff for Chief Judge Ware, aka 'DJ Jazzy Jim'

    SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area federal bench is losing a judge with a "complete mastery of IP law," progressive views and a reputation as courageous both on and off the benc

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  • November 5, 2001 |

    Congress Holds Key to Ending Wireless Battle

    The U.S. telecommunications companies battling over wireless spectrum licenses moved closer to settling their 5-year-old dispute last week, but the process will be derailed if Congress does no

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  • July 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Canadian Deals

    Quadra Mining FNX Mining Rumors and speculation usually precede deals, but Canadian mining analysts

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  • February 23, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    How To Spank Bad Lawyers

    Be careful how you choose your legal metaphors. Bypassing banal comparisons of litigation with war, New York lawyer Judd Burstein invoked medicine in an ultimatum to a law firm he was about to sue

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  • February 27, 2002 | Law.com

    Outside Counsel

    Looking at Directors' Duties in a Troubled EconomyIn light of the sustained downturn in the American and global economy, and with the number and magnitude of corporate bankruptcy

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  • August 12, 2008 | Law.com

    New Light on the BlackBerry Litigation

    "FYI -- It just happened again." So begins an internal Patent and Trademark Office e-mail released under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests made by attorneys for NTP, Inc., the p

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  • June 16, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Connecticut's Franchise Law: Bad for Business?

    Last October, the U.S. District Court inHartford, Conn., upheld a jury verdict in which,for the first time in U.S. history, an insurancecompany was held to be a "franchisor"and its agents were held

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  • January 21, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Supreme Court Announces Special Sitting, Issues 3 Rulings

    The long wait for the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission may soon be over. At the end of oral arguments Wednesday morning, the marshal of the Court an

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