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  • August 11, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Wrongful-Death Suit vs. Conrail Over Diesel Fumes Restored

    A wrongful-death suit by a longtime railroad worker's widow against Consolidated Rail Corp. is getting a second chance after a New Jersey appeals court said the matter was incorrectly di

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  • August 6, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Editorial: Time to Get Rid of Sole Proximate Cause

    Under the state and municipal highway defect statutes, a person injured by a defective road or sidewalk in Connecticutmust prove that the defect was the "sole proximate cause" of t

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  • People v. Carrasco

    Publication Date: 2014-08-05
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    Date Filed: 2014-08-04
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edmund G. Brown, Jr., and Kamala D. Harris, Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka and Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorneys General, Sharlene A. Honnaka, Jamie L. Fuster and Roberta L. Davis, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Robert R. Bryan, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Cheryl J. Cotterill for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No: S077009

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 8876 THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ROBERT CARRASCO, Defen

  • July 31, 2014 | Texas Lawyer

    The Cold Call in 150 Seconds or Less

    Susie Smith is calling for the fourth time. She knows you are very busy, but if you could just carve out 20 minutes for a Web demonstration, she can show you how her solutions can eliminate

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  • Stewart v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-07-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Trieshmann Public Defender's Office, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter Skandalakis, District Attorney, Newnan, and Timothy Marlow District Attorney's Office, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A0337

    Affirmative evidence showing that others had equal access to the room where officers found drugs rebutted, as a matter of law, any presumption of possession arising from the fact that the defendant

  • July 22, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Mark Dubois: The DIY Approach is Transforming Legal Services

    Walking down the main drag in Provincetown the other day, I found a pile of books in front of an apartment that had been cleaned out. I took a few related to things I wanted to read up on&am

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  • Wood, III v. Ryan

    Publication Date: 2014-07-21
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    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Neil V. Wake, District Judge, Presiding Before: THOMAS, GOULD, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jon M. Sands, Federal Public Defender, Dale A. Baich & Robin C. Konrad (argued), Assistant Federal Public Defenders, District of Arizona, Phoenix Arizona, on behalf of Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas C. Horne, Attorney General, Jeffrey A. Zick, Chief Counsel, John Pressley Todd, Special Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey L. Sparks (argued) & Matthew Binford, Assistant Attorneys General, State of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona, for Defendants-Appellees.
    Case Number: No. 14-16310

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 8118 JOSEPH RUDOLPH WOOD, III, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. C

  • In the Matter of Desteny D. A Person Alleged to be a Juvenile Delinquent, Respondent, D-33901/12

    Publication Date: 2014-07-15
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    Court: Family Court, Queens County
    Judge: Justice Susan Larabee
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    for defendant:
    Case Number: D-33901/12

    Cite as: Matter of Desteny D., D-33901/12, NYLJ 1202663260361, at *1 (Fam., QU, Decided August 13, 2013) D-33901/12 Justice Susan Larabee

  • July 15, 2014 | New York Law Journal

    Immunity Shields Judge From Lawsuit

    ALBANY - Judicial immunity protects a county judge from a lawsuit by the disgruntled father of a 16-year-old whom the judge sentenced as an adult for a shooting in Cooperstown, a federal jud

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  • July 14, 2014 | National Law Journal

    Fifty Years After 'Freedom Summer,' Reasons To Celebrate — and Lament

    Fifty years ago, about 1,000 young volunteers heeded the call to come to Mississippi in what became known as Freedom Summer. They came to support the work of local civil rights organizers an

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