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  • June 13, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Supreme Court Rejects Human Gene Patents in 'Myriad' Ruling

    WASHINGTON — Reversing decades of federal patent awards, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled that human genes and the information they encode are not patent-eligibl

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  • MHC Financing Limited Partnership v. City of San Rafael

    Publication Date: 2013-04-17
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    Date Filed: 2013-04-17
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Vaughn R. Walker, District Judge, Presiding Before: Jerome Farris, Sidney R. Thomas, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Bradford (argued), Barry Levenstam, Lisa T. Scruggs, and Bradley M. Yusim, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants­-Appellants.
    for defendant: Michael von Loewenfeldt (argued) and James M. Wagstaffe, Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP, San Francisco, California; Robert F. Epstein, Ragghianti Freitas LLP, San Rafael, California, for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee-Appellee City of San Rafael. Gordon C. Atkinson (argued), Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant-Cross-Appellee-Appellee Contempo Marin Homeowners Association. R.S. Radford, Pacific Legal Foundation Sacramento, California, for Amicus Curiae Pacific Legal Foundation. Elliot L. Bien and Amy E. Margolin, Bien & Summers, Novato, California, for Amicus Curiae Western Manufactured Housing Association. Andrew W. Schwartz, Fran M. Layton, Matthew D. Zinn, and Amanda R. Garcia, Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae League of California Cities and California State Association of Counties. Bruce E. Stanton, Law Offices of Bruce E. Stanton, San Jose, California, for Amicus Curiae Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners' League, Inc.
    Case Number: No. 07-15982 No. 09-16447 No. 09-16451 No. 09-16612 No. 09-16613

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 3839MHC FINANCING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, an Illinois limited partnership; GRAPELAND VISTAS, INC., a California corporation, Plaintiff

  • People v. Superior Court (Karsai)

    Publication Date: 2013-02-07
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    Date Filed: 2013-02-07
    Court: C.A. 3rd
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joyce E. Dudley, District Attorney, Michael J. Carozzo, Deputy District Attorney, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Jonathan Richter, Chief Defense Attorney, Kenneth Hahus, Assistant Public Defender, for Respondent. No appearance for Real Party in Interest. R. Scott Owens, District Attorney, Jeffrey R. Wood and Andrew Todd Kuhnen, Deputies District Attorney, Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent and Real Party in Interest.
    Case Number: No. C070719

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 1549THE PEOPLE, Petitioner,v.THE SUPERIOR COURT OF PLACER COUNTY, Respondent;p cl

  • May 27, 2013 | National Law Journal

    INADMISSIBLE: 'Savior of Baseball' Revisits Classic Case

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, known by some as the "savior of baseball" for her role as a judge in ending the 1994 players' strike, revisited the legal issues su

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  • June 25, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    States Repealing Some Statutes of Limitations

    State legislatures across the nation will be scrambling this summer to undo centuries of tradition by eliminating statutes of limitations and to prosecute old crimes.It is one of sever

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  • People v. Castillo

    Publication Date: 2010-05-24
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    Date Filed: 2010-05-24
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Appellant: Rudy Kraft, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant. Michael P. Judge, Public Defender (Los Angeles), Albert J. Menaster and Jack T. Weedin, Deputy Public Defenders, for Public Defender of Los Angeles County as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant. Steve Cooley, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Irene Wakabayashi, Head Deputy District Attorney, and Jennifer C. McDonald, Deputy District Attorney, for District Attorney of Los Angeles County as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Respondent: Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Lawrence M. Daniels, Susan Sullivan Pithey and Chung L. Mar, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    Case Number: S171163

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 6339The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent,v.JAVIER CASTILLO, Defendant and Appellant.

  • July 2, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Time-Tripping Over Prosecution Standards

    State legislatures across the nation will be scrambling this summer to undo centuries of tradition by eliminating statutes of limitations to prosecute old crimes.It is one of several l

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  • August 3, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Personal Notes on Lawyers

    • Matthew E. Langer has joined Cooley as a partner in the intellectual property practice group focusing on patent prosecution and counseli

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  • January 3, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Former Satyam Directors Dodge Class Action over 'India's Enron'

    Indian business leaders who got swept up in the accounting scandal known as "India's Enron" escaped a U.S. shareholder class action this week, thanks to their lawyers at Weil Gotshal

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  • November 5, 2010 | The Recorder

    Viewpoint: BAR-ometer

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