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  • 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.
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    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
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    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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  • February 11, 2005 | The Recorder

    Trying for a 9th Circuit Split

    A crucial skirmish took place last fall in the long war over whether to carve the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals into smaller pieces. Conservative Republicans in the House of Repres

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  • October 9, 2009 | The Recorder

    Remembering Craig Johnson

    On October 3, attorney Craig Johnson died after suffering a stroke at age 62. He had just returned from his honeymoon with his wife and business partner RoseAnn Rotandaro. Craig Johnson's accom

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  • Medtronic, Inc. v. White

    Publication Date: 2008-05-15
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    Date Filed: 2008-05-15
    Court: 9th Cir.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Linda F. Callison and Gordon C. Atkinson, Cooley Godward LLP, Palo Alto, California, for the intervenor-appellant.
    for defendant: Mark E. Haddad, Sidley Austin LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the defendant-appellee.
    Case Number: 06-16229

    Cite as 08 C.D.O.S. 5794MEDTRONIC, INC., Plaintiff,andLOS ANGELES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER, Intervenor-Appellant,v.GEOFFREY WHI

  • February 24, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Jury's Role in Criminal Cases: Is It Compromised by Court Rulings?

    On any given criminal motion day in federal court the court has before it a demand by the defendant for information that it claims will better enable it to prepare for trial. This may

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  • November 27, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Bankruptcy Trustee Suits Cause Increasing Concern for Law Firms

    In April 2003, Steven Garfinkel, the chief financial officer of DVI Inc., wrote a memo to Chief Executive Officer Michael O'Hanlon about the crushing liquidity crisis facing the health care finance

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