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  • February 7, 2007 |

    SEC Delays Rulemaking on Director Nominations by Shareholders

    Confusion over dissent director nominees and their access to corporate ballots will continue for at least one more round of annual meetings.A measure aimed at clarifying rules for shareholde

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  • December 5, 2003 | Daily Report Online

    Elder Care Patient Died of Thirst, Suit Claims

    Richmond Eustis [email protected] Flora Patterson died in June 2000 after going 10 days without food or water-and, according to her son, one of the largest private elder

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  • United States v. Schiff

    Publication Date: 2010-04-12
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    Date Filed: 2010-04-07
    Court: 3rd Cir.
    Judge: Ambro, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: Nos. 08-1903 & 08-1909

    PRECEDENTIALArgued May 11, 2009Before: AMBRO, ROTH and ALARCÓN*fn1 , Circuit Judges.OPINION OF THE COURTFrederick Schiff and Richard Lane were

  • May 29, 2007 | National Law Journal

    EEOC Looks at Caregiver Bias

    The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently announced that it may develop enforcement guidelines to address the growing problem of "family responsibility discrimination." FRD is a l

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  • September 11, 2003 | New York Law Journal

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    County Must Stop Strip-Searches of Felony Detainees Orange County has been ordered to stop the strip-searching of newly arrested detainees for weapons or other contraband at the county

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  • Department of Revenue of Kentucky v. Davis

    Publication Date: 2008-05-19
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    Date Filed: 2008-05-19
    Court: U.S. Sup. Ct.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For petitioners: C. Christopher Trower, Atlanta.
    for defendant: For respondents: G. Eric Brunstad Jr., Bingham McCutchen, Hartford, Conn.
    Case Number: 06-666

    Cite as 08 C.D.O.S. 4962DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE OF KENTUCKY, et al., PETITIONERS GEORGE W. DAVIS et ux.No. 06666In the Supreme Court of the United States

  • December 3, 2004 | Daily Report Online

    Companies Sue to Close Internet 'Gripe Sites'

    Tresa Baldas [email protected] NEW YORK-Scores of disgruntled customers who criticize businesses on Internet "gripe sites" are finding themselves entangled in costly court battl

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  • September 4, 2001 | Daily Report Online

    Jury Tosses Plaintiffs' Patents

    It was an unusual ruling for a federal jury to make in a patent case: Throw out the plaintiff company's patents.In doing so, the jury dismissed Atlanta-based Riverwood International Corp.'s cl

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  • November 25, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Firms mull rate increases in sour economy

    As the end of the year approaches, firms have begun to think about their 2009 budgets. This year, the grim economy makes ratcheting up billing rates a sticky issue, but managing partners say

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  • September 24, 2009 | The Associated Press

    Opening arguments to begin in pollution case

    TULSA, Okla. AP - On a trip through the Illinois River watershed this summer, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson bluntly revealed the main advantage he thought the state had in its poll

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