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December 31, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Conrad O'Brien Government Team Heads to Kleinbard

A team of two partners and an associate that has represented government officials and entities in several high-profile cases is leaving Conrad O'Brien to form a Harrisburg office for a small Philadelphia firm.

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McKinney v. Ryan

Publication Date: 2015-12-29
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Date Filed: 2015-12-29
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: David G. Campbell, District Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and Alex Kozinski, Kim McLane Wardlaw, William A. Fletcher, Ronald M. Gould, Marsha S. Berzon, Richard C. Tallman, Consuelo M. Callahan, Carlos T. Bea, Morgan Christen and Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ivan K. Mathew (argued) and Susan Turner Mathew, Mathew and Associates, Phoenix, Arizona, for Petitioner-Appellant.
for defendant: Jon Anderson (argued) and Jeffrey A. Zick, Assistant Attorneys General, Terry Goddard, Attorney General, and Kent Cattani, Chief Counsel, Arizona Attorney General's Office, Criminal Appeals/Capital Litigation Section, Phoenix, Arizona, for Respondent-Appellee.
Case Number: No. 09-99018

Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 13660 JAMES ERIN MCKINNEY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. CHARLES L. RYA

December 29, 2015 | Daily Business Review

Court Revives Former Metlife Executive's Age Bias Claim

When fe fired a 49-year-old executive and promoted his 42-year-old underling, the executive filed an age discrimination lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks ruled for

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December 28, 2015 | Daily Business Review

Court Revives Former Metlife Executive's Age Bias Claim

When MetLife fired a 49-year-old executive and promoted his 42-year-old underling, the executive filed an age discrimination lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks ruled for MetLife. On Dec. 18, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed Middlebrooks. The court revived the case brought by Robert Liebman, former managing director of MetLife's West Palm Beach and Boca Raton offices.

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December 28, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

Unapproved Opinions Week of Dec. 21

01-2-8707 In re Proposed Amendment to N.J.A.C. 10A:9-5, App. Div. (per curiam) (5 pp.) Petitioner, in the custody of the Department of Corrections from July 1991 to May 2011, appealed

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People of the State of California ex rel. Kamala D. Harris v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Publication Date: 2015-12-17
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Date Filed: 2015-12-17
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and M. Margaret McKeown and Richard R. Clifton, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin J. McKeon (argued), Judith D. Cassel, Whitney E. Snyder, Hawke McKeon & Sniscak LLP, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General of California, Mark Breckler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Martin Goyette, Senior Assistant Attorney General, San Francisco, California; David M. Gustafson, Deputy Attorney General, Oakland, California, for Petitioner People of the State of California ex rel. Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General.
for defendant: David L. Morenoff, General Counsel, Robert H. Solomon, Solicitor, Lona T. Perry (argued), Deputy Solicitor, Susanna Y. Chu, Attorney, Washington, D.C., for Respondent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Case Number: No. 13-71276 No. 13-71487

Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 13297 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE IFORNIA, EX REL. KAMALA D. HARRIS, ATTORNEY GENERAL; PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE

Espinoza v. Dimon, 14-1754

Publication Date: 2015-12-10
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Judge: Before: Katzmann, Ch.J., Pooler and Carney, C.JJ.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Jay N. Razzouk, on the brief, George C. Aguilar, Robbins Arroyo LLP, San Diego, California; Thomas G. Amon, Law Offices of Thomas G. Amon, New York, New York.
for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees James Dimon, Douglas L. Braunstein, Michael J. Cavanagh, Ina R. Drew, and Nominal Defendant-Appellee JPMorgan Chase & Co.: Daryl A. Libow, Christopher Michael Viapiano, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Washington, D.C., on the brief, Richard C. Pepperman, II, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, New York. For Defendants-Appellees Ellen V. Futter, James S. Crown, David M. Cote, Laban P. Jackson, Jr., Crandall C. Bowles, James A. Bell, Lee R. Raymond, Stephen B. Burke, William C. Weldon, and David C. Novak.: Jonathan C. Dickey, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, New York.
Case Number: 14-1754

Cite as: Espinoza v. Dimon, 14-1754, NYLJ 1202744383056, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided December 3, 2015) CASENAME Ernesto Espinoza, Derivatively on Behalf of JPMorga

December 9, 2015 | Delaware Business Court Insider

$171M El Paso Award Survives Corporation's End

In a decision elevating substance over form, the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled last week that a merger which ended the corporate existence of a firm did not terminate a derivative action

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December 9, 2015 | Delaware Business Court Insider

$171M El Paso Award Survives Corporation's End

In a decision elevating substance over form, the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled last week that a merger which ended the corporate existence of a firm did not terminate a derivative action brought by shareholders.

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Dole Food Company, Inc. v. Superior Court (Shell Oil Company)

Publication Date: 2015-12-02
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Date Filed: 2015-12-01
Court: C.A. 2nd
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Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Andrea E. Neuman, Thomas A. Manakides and William E. Thomson for Petitioners.
for defendant: Frederick Bennett for Respondent.
Case Number: No. B262044

Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 12752 DOLE FOOD COMPANY, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. SUPERIOR COUR