• December 19, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Habeas ruling disappoints lawyers

    LOCAL ATTORNEYS who represent Guantanamo Bay detainees were disappointed in last week's federal court ruling that upheld a law passed earlier this year stripping noncitizen detainees of habea

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  • January 5, 2009 | Legal Times

    For the Court, Tradition Is on Tap at Inaugural

    When John Roberts Jr. told the Senate in 2005 that judges should be like umpires, applying the rules of others, he added a touch of judicial modesty: “Nobody ever went to a b

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  • August 7, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    Slander case offers preview of SB 3 climax

    Lawyers who handle personal injury cases have circled Tuesday, Sept. 15 on their calendars. That's the day the state Supreme Court will hear a legal challenge to limits on pain and suffering

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  • June 14, 2004 | Legal Times

    The Other Reagan Revolution

    Like no president before him, Ronald Reagan invested his time and political capital in reshaping the judiciary, from the Supreme Court to the lowliest district court. While many

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  • June 16, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    Court axes forfeiture law

    The Supreme Court of Georgia on Monday declared unconstitutional a law that allows state prosecutors to seize all of a racketeering suspect's assets without first affording the suspect the ch

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  • January 24, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Wetlands Regulation

    Thirty-five years ago, Congress enacted the Clean Water Act of 1972 ("CWA") in an effort to "restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the Nation's waters."1

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  • September 11, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Preparing for Appellate Review While in District Court

    For in-house counsel, a federal district court order granting or denying class certification is often a watershed moment. If certification is denied, it may be economically impractical for t

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  • July 19, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    FIFA Selects Kirkland Partner to Head Corruption Probe

    Michael Garcia, a Kirkland & Ellis litigation and internal investigations partner and a href="http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/bodies/01/66/50/29/michaelgarcia%5fen.pdf" clas

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  • Newsday v. County of Nassau, 12-2728-cv

    Publication Date: 2013-09-25
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Lynch, Lohier, and Carney, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Intervenors-Appellants: Jacob P. Goldstein, on the Brief, David A. Schulz, Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP, New York, New York.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Cross-Claimants-Appellees and Defendants-Appelles: Dennis J. Saffran, for John Ciampoli, County Attorney of Nassau County, Mineola, New York. For Intervenor-Appellee: Seth H. Greenberg, Greenberg Burzichelli Greenberg P.C., Lake Success, New York.

    Case Number: 12-2728-cv*

    Cite as: Newsday v. County of Nassau, 12-2728-cv, NYLJ 1202620536824, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided September 23, 2013) 12-2728-cv* Before: L

  • May 5, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Lawyers open wallets for candidates

    Atlanta lawyers at some of the biggest firms in town have donated more than $300,000 to the three remaining Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. According to a study of F

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