• September 8, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Trump Can't Sue for Defamation Over Book's Understatement of His Worth

    Whether or not an author got it right when he said Donald Trump might be a mere mega-millionaire rather than the billionaire he says he is, Trump's defamation suit over the comment was correc

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  • February 27, 2004 | Alm

    No Halt to Same-Sex Nuptials Seen Soon

    California Attorney General Bill Lockyer's decision to go directly to the state Supreme Court to defend the state's definition of marriage won't likely bring an immediate end to gay weddings i

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  • April 23, 2010 | The Recorder

    Countrywide in $150M Fight With Insurer

    SAN FRANCISCO — In a case born out of the mortgage crisis, one of the country's largest home lenders is trying to force its mortgage insurer to pay up on claims in at least 1,400 loans.

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  • October 11, 1999 | New York Law Journal

    The Doctrine of Adequate Assurances and Potential Year 2000 Litigation Risks

    The scope and significanceof the Year 2000 problem is still largely unknown. The Securities and ExchangeCommission has stated in its interpretive guidance release that "[o]nlyone thing is certai

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  • Monroy v. City of Los Angeles

    Publication Date: 2008-06-26
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    Date Filed: 2008-06-25
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Reed Smith, Margaret M. Grignon, Judith E. Posner and Wendy S. Albers; R.?Rex Parris Law Firm, R. Rex Parris, Stephen K. McElroy, Jason P. Fowler and Ashley N. Parris; Marlin & Saltzman, Stanley D. Saltzman and Alan S. Lazar for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Rockard J. Delgadillo, City Attorney, Janet G. Bogigian, Assistant City Attorney, and Amy Jo Field, Deputy City Attorney for Defendants and Respondents.

    Case Number: B196916

    Cite as 08 C.D.O.S. 8022YESENIA MONROY, an Incompetent Person, etc., Plaintiff and Appellant,v.CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al.,Defendants and Respondents. PHOEB

  • December 9, 2003 | Alm

    Ford Wins Defense Verdict in Explorer Rollover Suit

    Lawyers on both sides of Vittorio and Rosanna DiMaso's products liability case against Ford Motor Co. fought ferociously for leverage under a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision urging moderation

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  • January 24, 2002 |

    Large Verdict Falls on Frye Ruling Expert Witness `Deeply Troubled`

    Medical literature did not back expert's view on causationFryeBy Ruth Bryna CohenTestimony that a wrongly dispensed drug caused permanent visual and cognitive damag

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  • January 8, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Pa. Superior Court Panel Backs Newspaper in Shield Law Case

    Reversing a Lackawanna County, Pa., trial judge, a Superior Court panel has unanimously held that a Scranton newspaper does not have to reveal its anonymous source for the purposes of a defamation

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  • November 3, 1994 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Daily Decision Alert: Vol. 2, No. 194 -- November3, 1994

    VOL. 2, NO. 194 DECISIONS RELEASED NOVEMBER 3, 1994ATTORNEY/CLIENT - NEGLIGENCE - DEBTOR/CREDITOR04-2-4241 Eslo Capital Corp. v. Whitman & Ransom, et al., App. Div. (14

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  • Pacific Rim Mechanical Contractors, Inc v. Aon Risk Insurance Services West, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-02-29
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    Date Filed: 2012-02-28
    Court: C.A. 4th
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Solomon, Ward, Seidenwurm & Smith, Richard E. McCarthy, Thomas F. Landers and Heather N. Stone for Cross-complainant and Appellant.
    for defendant: King & Spaulding, Paul R. Johnson, Geoffrey M. Ezcar and Leo Spooner III for Cross-defendants and Respondents.

    Case Number: No. D058321

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 2471 PACIFIC RIM MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS, INC., Cross-complainant and Appellant, v. AO