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  • August 12, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    The Dog Days of Lawyers

    August is usually the heart of the dog days of summer in Philadelphia, sultry days when the air is soupy and most lawyers hide out in air conditioning or head to the shore. Not this year. We've had

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  • August 27, 2007 | Legal Times

    Birdbrained Rules

    Alan Merrifield doesn't believe in pesticides. He thinks they're dangerous, ineffective, and bad for the environment. In any case, he doesn't deal with bugs. He helps people keep common

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  • June 25, 2003 | Legal Times

    If I Had a Hammer

    Summer program activities at major law firms have developed a certain predictability -- baseball games, sailing trips, some nice dinners, and the like. Buildable Hours was designed as an alter

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  • September 2, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Dissecting Consumer Class Action Bans

    Consumers may find class action lawsuits to be potent weapons when their products fail to perform exactly as advertised. Consumer class actions effectively aggregate into a single lawsui

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  • SETTCO, LLC, v USA NIAGARA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

    Publication Date: 2008-04-25
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    Court: Appellate Division, 4th Dept
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    Case Number: 39

    SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department 39 CA 07-01068 PRESENT: HURLBUTT, J.P., MARTOCHE, S

  • February 22, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

    2028: An Inmate Odyssey

    More than three years after former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling reported to federal prison to begin serving a quarter-century sentence, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in his ap

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  • Grand Canyon Trust v. United States Bureau of Reclamation

    Publication Date: 2012-08-13
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    Date Filed: 2012-08-13
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: David G. Campbell, District Judge, Presiding Before: Ferdinand F. Fernandez, Ronald M. Gould, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: McCrystie Adams (argued), Earthjustice, Denver, Colorado, and Neil Levine, Grand Canyon Trust, Denver, Colorado, for the appellant-plaintiff.
    for defendant: Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General, Mark R. Haag and David C. Shilton (argued), Environmental & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the appellees-defendants. Kenneth C. Slowinski and Nicole D. Klobas, Arizona Department of Water Resources, Legal Division, Phoenix, Arizona; Kamala D. Harris, California Attorney General, Kathleen A. Kenealy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Gary E. Tavetian, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, California; John W. Suthers, Colorado Attorney General, and Karen M. Kwon (argued), First Assistant Attorney General, Denver, Colorado; Catherine Cortez Maso, Nevada Attorney General, and Jennifer T. Crandell, Senior Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Las Vegas, Nevada; Dana R. Walsh, Southern Nevada Water Authority, Las Vegas, Nevada; Gary K. King, New Mexico Attorney General, Stephen R. Farris, Assistant Attorney General, Anne Moore, Assistant Attorney General, and Amy Haas, Special Assistant Attorney General, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Mark L. Shurtleff, Utah Attorney General, Norman K. Johnson, Natural Resources Division Chief, and Michael M. Quealy, Assistant Attorney General, Salt Lake City, Utah; Gregory A. Phillips, Attorney General, Peter K. Michael, Chief Deputy Attorney General, and Jeremiah I. Williamson, Assistant Attorney General, Cheyenne, Wyoming; Kathy Robb, Hunton & Williams LLP, New York, New York; Jay M. Johnson and Suzanne Ticknor, Central Arizona Project, Phoenix, Arizona; Marcia L. Scully, Joseph A. Vanderhorst, and Peter E. Von Hamm, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; John P. Carter, Horton, Knox, Carter & Foote, El Centro, California; Bennett W. Raley, Trout, Raley, Montaño, Witwer & Freeman, P.C., Denver, Colorado, for the intervenors-appellees.
    Case Number: No. 11-16326

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 9178 GRAND CANYON TRUST, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES BUREAU OF RECLAMATION;

  • October 8, 2013 | Daily Report Online

    Video Spy Exception Doesn't Exist, Say Justices

    A decision issued Monday by the Georgia Supreme Court raises questions about the legality of home video surveillance. The issue came up in a peculiar divorce case in which a woman rec

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  • April 25, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Am Law Alums Mike Lee and Ted Cruz Give GOP Feisty Face

    During the oral arguments last year in the U.S. Supreme Court case that sought to invalidate the Democratic health care law, Mike Lee watched from a familiar vantage point. The f

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  • April 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    High Stakes, Huge Money

    As with any practice, victory in IP litigation can be defined a number of ways. Perhaps it comes in the form of a multimillion-dollar jury verdict. Or as a judge's ruling affirming the validity of

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