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  • January 24, 2001 | Cch

    Mediation's Dirty Little Secret: Straight Talk About Mediator Manipulation and Deception

    In an earlier ethics column for CCH's Journal of Alternate Dispute Resolution, I asserted that mediation is often "a process where the negotiator's propensity to lie is frequently

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  • League of Women Voters of Ohio v. Brunner

    Publication Date: 2008-12-08
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    Date Filed: 2008-11-26
    Court: 6th Cir.
    Judge: Julia Smith Gibbons, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: Nos. 06-3335/3483/3621

    RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206Argued: October 21, 2008Before: KEITH, MERRITT, and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges. OPINION Plaintiffs-appellees League of

  • December 23, 2003 | The Recorder

    California Death Spiral

    When it comes to death sentences, the Alameda County, Calif., district attorney's office had a rough year. Prosecutors pursued five capital cases but only got the death penalty in o

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  • August 9, 2007 | The Associated Press

    Judge hears appeal on ruling bad-driver fees are unconstitutional

    RICHMOND, Va. AP - There was no rational basis for state legislators to assess surcharges for bad driving only on Virginians and not nonresidents, a lawyer for a repeat traffic offender told

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  • October 1, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    Courthouse to White House

    I'll never forget the shock of disillusionment I felt the first time I read an international treaty. What I had imagined as august documents of war and peace, comity between nations, the eleva

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  • July 16, 2008 | The Associated Press

    Release denied for dying Manson follower

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. AP - A follower of Charles Manson who stabbed pregnant actress Sharon Tate to death nearly 40 years ago but is dying of brain cancer in a California prison was denied compa

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  • April 9, 1999 | New York Law Journal

    Firm Quits Client Over Outside Auditor

    A midsize law firm found a way to deal with an aggressive outside auditor hired by a client to review its legal bills -- tell the client to find new lawyers.After Law Audit Services Inc. use

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  • May 28, 2003 | The Recorder

    Judge Bucks Third-Strike Rules

    Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Harry Pregerson, the oldest active member of the court and a stalwart of the court's liberal wing, is defying recent Supreme Court precedent in some o

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  • Steadman v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-03-08
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    Date Filed: 2012-03-07
    Court: Tex. Crim. App.
    Judge: Price, J.,
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    Case Number: NO. PD-1356-10

    Price, J., delivered the opinion of the Court in which Keller, P.J., and Womack, Johnson, Keasler, Hervey, Cochran, and Alcala, JJ., joined. Meyers, J., dissented.OPINIONIn a si

  • May 30, 2003 | The Recorder

    9th Circuit Judge Bucks Three Strikes Rules

    Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Harry Pregerson, the oldest active member of the court and a stalwart of the court's liberal wing, is defying recent Supreme Court precedent in some o

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