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  • December 8, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

    The Death of Heightened Pleading Standards in Products Liability Cases

    In July, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) introduced legislation that would revert the standard for dismissing a federal complaint to that of Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41 (1957), i.e., a comp

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  • Alphas Company, Inc v. Dan Tudor & Sons Sales, Inc

    Publication Date: 2012-05-21
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    Date Filed: 2012-05-16
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Lynch, Chief Judge.
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    Case Number: 11-1226

    Before Lynch, Chief Judge, Lipez and Howard, Circuit Judges.This case involves the statutory appeals process to the federal courts for review of disputes over perishable agricultural goods. T

  • August 25, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Translation Error Equals Bail for Terror Suspects

    ALBANY -- The Justice Department's misinterpretation of a Kurdish word has led a federal judge to reverse a prior decision and set bail for two Muslims accused of laundering terrorism money.

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  • April 4, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Devaney v. L'Esperance

    N.J. Superior Court, Appellate Division FAMILY LAW � Palimony Devaney v. L'Esperance A-1241-05T1; Appellate Division; per curiam opinion; decided and app

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  • United States of America v. Jeffrey Smith

    Publication Date: 2012-01-06
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    Date Filed: 2011-12-27
    Court: 8th Cir.
    Judge: Riley, Chief Judge.
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    Case Number: 11-1732

    Submitted: October 21, 2011Before RILEY, Chief Judge, SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge, and WEBBER,*fn1 District Judge.Jeffrey Smith pled guilty to knowingly and i

  • May 12, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Seeing Jeanes Hospital from the Claimant's Perspective

    As was previously reported in this space, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has recently overruled the Commonwealth Court's decision in Jeanes Hospital v. W.C.A.B. (Hass). The Supreme C

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  • September 18, 2003 |

    'Faithless' Forfeits

    A federal appeals court in New York has ordered the former employee of a private equity firm to forfeit all his compensation, including salary and investment opportunities, because of a patter

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  • June 27, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    A Friendly Breakup

    As Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner and Dewey & LeBoeuf have demonstrated, law firm mergers and acquisitions can be tricky—and potentially fatal. However, not al

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  • September 1, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Public Interest Projects

    "Florida attempted to radically raise the cost of doing business for voter registration groups," said Craig Siegel, a New York associate at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel who won a prelim

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  • June 26, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

    State v. Grant,

    CRIMINAL PRACTICE — Grand Juries — Testifying in Restraints A-2829-02T2; Appellate Division; opinion by Weissbard, J.A.D.; decided and approved for publicatio

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