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  • July 26, 2012 | Daily Report Online

    Deal taps Branch, Ray for Court of Appeals

    Governor Nathan Deal on Wednesday tapped Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge William "Billy" Ray II and Smith, Gambrell & Russell partner Elizabeth "Lisa" Branch to

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  • August 6, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Justices Bless Method Gays Use to Adopt

    Second-parent adoptions, widely used by same-sex couples to form families, were declared legal Monday by the California Supreme Court. The 6-1 ruling legitimizes as many as 20,000 adop

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  • February 20, 2004 | Legal Times

    The S&L Payouts That Never Came

    In 1996, when the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in United States v. Winstar, plaintiffs lawyers thought the decision would clear the path for thrifts and investors to recover

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  • August 1, 2006 | The Recorder

    Clear as Mud

    For anyone hoping for clear direction from the U.S. Supreme Court on the question of the extent of federal jurisdiction over adjacent wetlands, the court's recent decision in the consolidated

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  • August 4, 2003 |

    Birds of a Feather

    It is certainly not difficult to imagine a situation where counsel is faced with more than one unfavorable order in the same case. In some circumstances, these orders might be related or conne

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  • EDDY v. WHITE

    Publication Date: 2003-04-10
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    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, 3rd Dept
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 92821

    Decided and Entered: April 10, 2003 92821 LEON H. EDDY et al., Respondents, v AUGUST E. WHITE, Defendant, and COUNTY OF OTSEGO, Defendant and

  • September 15, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Lawyer Inherits An Ethics Controversy

    A lawyer can't both draft the will and be the beneficiary, right? Think again, and consider the following case, which might be reviewed by the state Supreme Court. When elderly

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  • July 12, 1999 | The Recorder

    Signature Litigation

    Raley's supermarket in West Sacramento attracts a good-sized crowd.The 58,000-square-foot store registers more than 105,000 business transactions a month. So it has become a natural gatherin

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  • August 12, 2004 | National Law Journal

    High Court Cram-Down Decision Will Have Big Impact

    In the recent decision Till v. SCS Credit Corp., 124 S. Ct. 1951 (2004), the U.S. Supreme Court waded into murky waters -- the meaning of the Bankruptcy Code's "cram down" provisions --

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  • June 30, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Behind the scenes at the Kagan hearings

    Circling the Senate hearing room, one floor above it, is a series of rooms, each with windows offering a bird's eye view of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and members of the Senate Judi

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