• November 2, 2009 | The Associated Press

    Judge orders 3 to trial in Anna Nicole drug case

    LOS ANGELES AP - Three key players in the troubled world of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith have been ordered to stand trial after a hearing that plumbed the drug-fueled depths of her final y

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  • March 7, 2003 | The Recorder

    Punitive Measures

    Brent Ferguson and Florencia Prieto were dumbfounded in 1997 when the class counsel in their suit against Unocal Corp. chose not to seek punitive damages in order to cement an $80 million glob

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  • May 5, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    A Total System Failure

    There has been much talk of course about the stunning reversal of fortune for the plaintiff in Pelletier v. Sordoni/Skanska upon the Connecticut Supreme Court's overturn of the judgmen

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  • August 14, 2002 | The Recorder

    A Need to Campaign?

    California Supreme Court Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar is preparing for the worst, while Justices Marvin Baxter and Carlos Moreno are kicking back and taking it easy. All three face

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  • July 15, 2003 | Daily Report Online

    Lawyer-Tax Case Erupts in Fee Fight

    Georgia's Supreme Court declared the City of Atlanta's $400 per lawyer annual occupation tax unconstitutional in March, but lawyers now are fighting over fees, tax refunds and interest potenti

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  • Communities For a Better Environment v. South Coast Air Quality Management District (ConocoPhillips Company)

    Publication Date: 2010-03-15
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2010-03-15
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adrienne L. Bloch, Shana Lazerow; Lozeau|Drury and Richard T. Drury for Plaintiff and Appellant Communities for a Better Environment. Richard M. Frank; Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo, Marc D. Joseph and Richard T. Drury for Plaintiffs and Appellants Carlos Valdez et al. Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Tom Green and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Theodora P. Berger and Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorneys General, Sally Magnani Knox, Lisa Trankley and Susan L. Durbin, Deputy Attorneys General for State of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants. Luke Cole for Association of Irritated Residents, California Communities Against Toxics, California Environmental Rights Alliance, California Safe Schools, Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, Coalition for a Safe Environment, Community Water Center, Tricounty Watchdogs and Youth United for Community Action as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants. Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic and Sean B. Hecht for Sierra Club, Endangered Habitats League, National Resources Defense Council and Planning and Conservation League as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Daniel V. Hyde, Paul J. Beck and Azusa K. Tokudome for California Association of Sanitation Agencies as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants. Kurt R. Wiese, Barbara Baird; Woodruff, Spradlin & Smart, Bradley R. Hogin, Edward L. Bertrand and Ricia R. Hager for Defendants and Respondents. Latham & Watkins, Robert A. Wyman, Jr., and Emily Taylor for Regulatory Flexibility Group as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents. Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish, Alston & Bird, Ward L. Benshoof, Jocelyn D. Thompson; Cox Castle & Nicholson and Michael H. Zishke for Real Party in Interest and Respondent. Diepenbrock Harrison, Mark D. Harrison and Dan M. Silverboard for California Construction and Industrial Materials Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest and Respondent. Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and Michael M. Berger for Western Independent Refiners Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents and Real Party in Interest and Respondent. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, Kevin M. Fong and David R. Farabee for Western States Petroleum Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents and Real Party in Interest and Respondent. Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, P. Addison Covert, Robin Leslie Stewart and Stacy L. Asato Toledo for California School Boards Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents and Real Party in Interest and Respondent. Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck and Lisabeth D. Rothman for California Building Industry Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents and Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

    Case Number: No. S161190

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 3204COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT, Plaintiff and Appellant, v.SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAG

  • September 4, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    11th Circuit Considers What to Do When Defendant Wants to Fire Public Defender

    Sometimes a criminal defendant wants to fire his court-appointed lawyer, even a lawyer that everyone else in the courtroom thinks is a good one. "Some people just are irrational about their

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  • April 5, 2000 | Daily Report Online

    Decade-Old Suit Against Uniroyal Ends in Settlement

    After a decade of often-bitter scrapping, one of Georgia's longest-running, most-contentious product liability cases has settled quietly out of court.On the way to an agreement, the 1990 cas

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  • Foundation for Int. Design Educ. Research v. Savannah College of Art & Design

    Publication Date: 2001-04-05
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2001-03-26
    Court: 6th Cir.
    Judge: MERRITT, WELLFORD, and SILER, Circuit Judges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number:

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. MERRITT, Circuit Judge. The Foundation for Interior Design Education Research brought an actionseeking a declarato

  • February 6, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    PricewaterhouseCoopers Trial Enters Jury Deliberations Phase

    In concluding a case that seeks to strip accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers of its license to do business in Georgia, a former governor said a Boston-based nursing home company defrauded the f

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