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  • August 28, 2006 | The Recorder

    Prominent Corporate Lawyers Didn't Stop Shady Options Deals

    For Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc., 1998 was a rough year. Poor results in a series of clinical trials caused the company to lay off 80 percent of its workers. By Oct. 22, the company's shares had

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  • September 23, 2002 | The American Lawyer

    All in the Execution

    "The Death Penalty: An American History" by Stuart Banner Harvard University Press 385 pages; $29.95 Unable to think of an original topic for a

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  • June 10, 2004 |

    The Trouble With TiVo

    Talk to Matthew Zinn, and there will come a point -- finally -- when he'll stop bragging about his TiVo. In that respect Zinn, who is TiVo Inc.'s general counsel, is like a lot of other TiVo e

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  • August 28, 2006 | The Recorder

    Prominent Corporate Lawyers Didn't Stop Shady Options Deals

    For Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc., 1998 was a rough year. Poor results in a series of clinical trials caused the company to lay off 80 percent of its workers. By Oct. 22, the company's shares had

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  • People v. Superior Court (Sharkey)

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Date Filed: 2010-03-25
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steve Cooley, District Attorney, Irene Wakabayashi, Head Deputy, Shirley S.N. Sun, Deputy District Attorney for Petitioner.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent.
    Case Number: No. B219011

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 3825THE PEOPLE, Petitioner, v.SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent;p

  • August 10, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Skadden IP Star Moves to Paul Hastings

    The last time a Litigation Daily Litigator of the Week switched firms, it was to join Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. (In May, class action maven a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/tal/digestTA

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  • October 9, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Azerbaijan Bribes Put One Mogul on Trial, Another in Exile

    For an international fugitive, Viktor Kozeny seems to have it pretty good. It's not quite the life o

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  • Farrakhan v. Gregoire

    Publication Date: 2010-10-08
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    Date Filed: 2010-10-07
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan P. Haygood (argued), John Payton, Theodore Shaw, Norman J. Chachkin, Debo P. Adegbile, Kristen Clarke and Dale E. Ho, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, New York, Danielle C. Gray, New York, New York, and Lawrence A. Weiser, University Legal Assistance at Gonzaga Law School, Spokane, Washington, for plaintiffs-appellants.
    for defendant: Robert M. McKenna (argued), Attorney General, Daniel J. Judge, Senior Counsel, and Jeffrey T. Even, Carol Murphy and William B. Collins, Deputy Solicitors General, Olympia, Washington, for defendants-appellees. Derek S. Tarson and Marianne Koh, Of Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, New York, for amici curiae Twenty-Three Leading Criminologists. Sharon L. Browne and Ralph W. Kasarda, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California, for amici curiae Pacific Legal Foundation and Center for Equal Opportunity. Thomas C. Goldstein, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, D.C., and Pamela S. Karlan and Jeffrey L. Fisher, Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford, California, for amici curiae Thirteen Law Professors. Daniel F. Kolb and Edmund Polubinski III, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, New York, for amicus curiae Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. Juan Cartagena, Community Service Society, New York, New York, for amicus curiae Community Service Society. Elizabeth B. Wydra, Douglas T. Kendall and David H. Gans, Constitutional Accountability Center, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Constitutional Accountability Center. Whitty Somvichian, Kyle C. Wong, Kelly Cooke and Tyler Onitsuka, Cooley LLP, San Francisco, California, for amici curiae Lawyers? Committee for Civil Rights, Equal Justice Society, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and American Parole and Probation Association. Sarah A. Dunne and Nancy Talner, American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Foundation, Seattle, Washington, Peter A. Danelo, Seattle, Washington, Leonard J. Feldman, P.K. Runkles-Pearson and Daniel A. Swedlow, Stoel Rives LLP, Seattle, Washington, and Laughlin McDonald and Nancy G. Abudu, ACLU Voting Rights Project, Atlanta, Georgia, for amici curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Washington and American Civil Liberties Union. Lawrence S. Lustberg and Jennifer B. Condon, Gibbons P.C., Newark, New Jersey, for amici curiae National Black Police Association, National Latino Officers Association, American Probation and Parole Association and Six Former Law Enforcement Officials.
    Case Number: No. 06-35669

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 13034MUHAMMAD SHABAZZ FARRAKHAN, aka Ernest S. Walker; AL-KAREEM SHADEED; MARCUS X. PRICE; RAMON BARRIENTES; TIMOTHY SCHAAF; CLIFTON BRICENO

  • City of Dallas v. Stewart

    Publication Date: 2012-02-01
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    Date Filed: 2012-01-27
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Wallace B. Jefferson Chief Justice
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: NO. 09-0257

      Argued February 16, 2010CHIEF JUSTICE JEFFERSON delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by JUSTICE HECHT, JUSTICE MEDINA, JUSTICE WILLE

  • March 21, 2000 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firms Taking Equity in High-Tech Clients Stirs Ambivalence

    With dot-com fever continuing to rise in Silicon Alley, some of the city's oldest, largest and most conservative law firms have decided that they, too, want to be players in the new economy, even i

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