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  • June 4, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Railroad Worker Gets $2 Million Verdict for Neck Injury

    A Philadelphia jury has awarded $2 million to a train engineer for work-related injuries in a case where the judge referred the employer's counsel to the U.S. attorney and state disciplinary offic

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  • October 31, 2005 | Legal Times

    Jay Sekulow's Golden Ticket

    Just the week before, Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, had cheerfully predicted that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers had "turned the corner" and

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  • November 2, 2005 | Legal Times

    How the Christian Right's Go-To Lawyer Built an Empire

    Tony Mauro [email protected] WASHINGTON-Just the week before, Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, had cheerfully predicted that Supreme Court nom

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  • September 19, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    Lawyers Distressed By Texas Supreme Court's Backlog

    If anyone is familiar with the pain of waiting years for the Texas Supreme Court to issue an opinion, it's Christopher Hogue. In 2001, Hogue was a first-year law student at Texas Tech Sc

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  • September 28, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Topical Index to Federal Case Digests

    ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - Environmental Law - Judicial Review National Association of Home Builders et al. v. Defenders of Wildlife et al. , No. 06-340; U.S. Supreme C

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  • November 1, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Just Don't Do It

    It was a warm, sticky evening in May when the trio of Americans arrived in an industrial city in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. Emerging from their air-conditioned taxicab, the me

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  • July 19, 2010 | Daily Report Online

    Lawyers, judges remember Harold Hill

    Harold N. Hill Jr., the former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, is being remembered as a reserved but kind jurist who loved being on the water and cared deeply about the fair ad

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  • December 19, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Texts From Cop Posing as Accomplice Don't Violate Wiretap Act

    It is not a violation of the Wiretap Act for a police officer to pose as an accomplice and communicate with a suspect via text messages, the state Supreme Court ruled.The court's rulin

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  • Padilla v. Yoo

    Publication Date: 2012-05-02
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    Date Filed: 2012-05-02
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Jeffrey S. White, District Judge, Presiding Before: Raymond C. Fisher and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges, and Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, District Judge.*,**
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan M. Freiman (argued), Hope R. Metcalf, Tahlia Townsend and Amos E. Friedland, New Haven, Connecticut; Natalie L. Bridgeman, San Francisco, California, for the appellees. Paul J. Orfanedes, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Judicial Watch, Inc.
    for defendant: Miguel A. Estrada (argued) and Scott P. Martin, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C., for the appellant. Michael F. Hertz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Barbara L. Herwig and Robert M. Loeb, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae United States. Peter B. Ellis and Usha-Kiran K. Ghia, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, Massachusetts, for amici curiae Bruce Fein, Roberts B. Owen and Michael P. Scharf. Eric L. Lewis, Baach Robinson & Lewis PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Elizabeth A. Wilson, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, for amici curiae Distinguished Professors of Constitutional and Federal Courts Law. Hamid Jabbar, Scottsdale, Arizona; Hirad D. Dadgostar, Los Angeles, California; Dawinder S. Sidhu, Potomac, Maryland, for amici curiae Legal Ethics Scholars.
    Case Number: No. 09-16478

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 4875 JOSE PADILLA and ESTELA LEBRON, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. JOHN YOO, Defendant-Ap

  • Giles v. California

    Publication Date: 2008-06-25
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    Date Filed: 2008-06-25
    Court: U.S. Sup. Ct.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For petitioner: Marilyn Burkhardt, Los Angeles.
    for defendant: For respondent: Donald De Nicola, California Attorney General's Office, Los Angeles.
    Case Number: 07-6053

    Cite as 08 C.D.O.S. 7838DWAYNE GILES, PETITIONER v. CALIFORNIA No. 07-6053Supreme Court Of The United States On Writ Of Certiorari To The Supreme Court Of