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  • December 9, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Government Misconduct in FCPA Prosecution May Impact Other Cases

    A federal judge's dismissal of convictions in a high-profile Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case because of prosecutorial misconduct has prompted a defense attorney in a related prosecution to chall

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  • June 13, 2005 | The Recorder

    All Eyes Turn to Filling Seat After Brown

    California's highest court is about to get a little less conservative. And most likely sooner rather than later.Several people familiar with the California Supreme Court and st

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  • November 30, 2006 | Legal Times

    Supreme Court Asked to Take Aircraft Banner Case

    Conference Call summarizes the roughly 15 percent of all non-pauper petitions that are the most likely candidates for certiorari. The Supreme Court's jurisdiction is almost entirely discretionar

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  • August 19, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    The Dog Days of Summer -- and Lawyers

    August is usually the heart of the dog days of summer in Philadelphia -- those sultry days when the air is soupy and most lawyers hide out in air conditioning or head to the shore. Not this year. W

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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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