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  • April 29, 2015 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Claim That Acquiring Firm Avoided Earn-Out Payments Tossed

    Without evidence of requisite intent, a lawsuit alleging the breach of a merger agreement prohibiting the diversion of revenue in order to reduce earn-out payments due former equity holders

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  • April 29, 2015 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Claim That Acquiring Firm Avoided Earn-Out Payments Tossed

    Without evidence of requisite intent, a lawsuit alleging the breach of a merger agreement prohibiting the diversion of revenue in order to reduce earn-out payments due former equity holders in an acquired company had to be thrown out, the state Supreme Court decided en banc last week.

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  • Olvera v. University Sys. of Georgia's Bd. of Regents

    Publication Date: 2015-04-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Kuck Kuck Immigration Partners LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Russell Willard, and Allen Lightcap Attorney General's Office, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A14A2352

    Sovereign immunity barred the declaratory judgment action filed by non-citizen college students, who were beneficiaries of the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, seeking a decl

  • Barnes v. State

    Publication Date: 2015-04-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMillian, Carla W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George Sparks, Assistant Public Defender, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert Poston, District Attorney, and Susan Franklin, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A2299

    The defendant failed to prove his ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim, and the trial court therefore properly denied his motion to withdraw his guilty plea on the ground that he pled guilt

  • Allen v. The Boeing Company

    Publication Date: 2015-04-27
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    Date Filed: 2015-04-24
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Ricardo S. Martinez, District Judge, Presiding Before: HAWKINS, RAWLINSON, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Finnerty, Thomas V. Giraldi, and David N. Bigelow (argued), Giraldi/Keese of Los Angeles, California, and Thomas Vertetis, Pfau Cochran Vertetis of Tacoma, Washington for the plaintiffs-appellees, Jocelyn Allen, et al.
    for defendant: Michael Sylvain Paisner, of Renton Washington (argued), Jeffrey M. Hanson, Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, Washington, and Michael F. Williams, Peter A. Farrell, Michael J. Podberesky, and Devein A. DeBacker, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, of Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellant The Boeing Company.
    Case Number: No. 15-35162

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 3996 JOCELYN ALLEN; LAWRENCE J. ALLEN; VIVIAN LYNN ALLEN; CAREN BARNES; EMERY BLESSING; HORACE BLINER; ROBERT A. BLINER; JASON BOG

  • April 27, 2015 |

    Erie Ins. Exch. v. Lobenthal

    Click Here for FC&S Legal Expert Analysis  Erie Ins. Exch.v.Lobenthal2015 WL 1668183Superior Court of Pennsylvania.ERIE INSURANCE EXCHANGEv.Michaela…

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  • Torres v. State

    Publication Date: 2015-04-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Long D. Vo Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Layla H. Zon, District Attorney, Christopher D. Sperry District Attorney's Office, Covington, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ryan A. Kolb, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S15A0396

    Trial counsel's strategic decision to not pursue a mental health defense in the defendant's murder trial was not unreaso

  • April 22, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Justices Decline to Hear Dragonetti Action Over 'Killer Nurse'

    The state Supreme Court has decided not to hear arguments in a hospital's case against an attorney over filing of what it called "patently frivolous" wrongful-death lawsuits st

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  • April 21, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Justices Decline to Hear Dragonetti Action Over 'Killer Nurse'

    The state Supreme Court has decided not to hear arguments in a hospital's case against an attorney over filing of what it called "patently frivolous" wrongful-death lawsuits stemming from its employment of serial killer Charles Cullen as a nurse at the facility.

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  • Charles v. Butler

    Publication Date: 2015-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Margaret Kinnear Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, and Kimberly Lewis, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A14A2095

    The Department of Labor failed to prove that the unemployment benefits recipient committed fraud within the meaning of O.C.G.A. § 34-8-255 when he underreported his income from a part-tim