• April 24, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Panel Refuses to Revive Smoking Suit Filed Years After Limitations Period

    ALBANY - A man who started smoking when he was 9 and did not quit until he underwent throat cancer surgery 30 years later is time barred from suing cigarette companies for his disease, an Appe

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  • February 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Contingency Plan

    On August 13, 2007, Sullivan & Cromwell partner Steven Thomas and four members of his trial team passed up the five-star culinary options of Miami's South Beach for dinner at a Denny's in

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  • Feld v. Willkie, Farr Gallagher

    Publication Date: 2004-03-08
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    Supreme Court IA Part 19 Justice Lehner Before me is a motion by defendants to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211(a) 5 and 7. According to the compl

  • New York County First Department SUPREME COURT — Published in the Law Journal on: November 16, 2011,

    Publication Date: 2011-11-14
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    Justice Lucy BillingsCalloway v. NYCHA (403569/10)—Case DisposedDimaggio v. Dept. of Transportation (111586/10)—Motion Disposed As Indi

  • March 10, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

    New Partners Yearbook 2011

    We shuddered a bit before starting our annual survey of new partners at New Jersey law firms, as we were still reeling from the sharp reductions reported last year. But we got a nice surprise: stab

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  • Soumayah v Minnelli

    Publication Date: 2007-06-28
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    Mazzarelli, J.P., Andrias, Marlow, Buckley, McGuire, JJ. 172 Index 113894/04 M'Hammed Soumayah, Plaintiff-Respondent, v Liza Minnelli, et al., Defendants-App

  • March 14, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Verdicts & Settlements: Appeal likely in $24 million tort case

    A Dougherty County jury this week awarded more than $24 million to a young football star who lost a leg when the medical staff that should have been monitoring him following surgery for an in

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  • May 5, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    City of New York, plaintiff-appellee-cross-appellant v. Beretta U.S.A. Corp., defendants-appellants-cross-appellees

    Decided April 30, 2008Before Miner, Cabranes, and Katzmann, JJAppeal from so much of an order entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Wein

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  • California Redevelopment Association v. Matosantos

    Publication Date: 2013-01-24
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Best Best & Krieger; McDonough Holland & Allen, Richard E. Brandt, T. Brent Hawkins, and Ann Taylor Schwing; Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor, Steven A. Merksamer, and Richard D. Martland; and Scott D. Bertzyk for Plaintiffs and Appellants, case No. C064907. Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silver & Wilson, J. Scott Smith, Robin Paige Donoghue, and Susan E. Bloch for League of California Cities as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants, case No. C064907. Greenberg Traurig, Scott D. Bertzyk, Nancy Doig, Karin L. Bohmholdt; Andrea Sheridan Ordin, County Counsel, Elizabeth M. Cortez, Assistant County Counsel, Thomas M. Tyrrell, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiffs and Appellants, case No. C065390. Best Best & Krieger, Richard E. Brandt, T. Brent Hawkins, and Ann Taylor Schwing; Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Gross & Leoni, Steven A. Merksamer, and Richard D. Martland for Plaintiff and Respondent, case No. C065329.
    for defendant: Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silver & Wilson, J. Scott Smith, Robin Paige Donoghue, and Susan E. Bloch for League of California Cities as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants, case No. C064907. Kamala D. Harris and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney Generals, Douglas J. Woods and Jonathan K. Renner, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, Zackery P. Morazzini, Stephen P. Acquisto and George Waters, Deputy Attorneys General for Defendant and Appellant, case No. C065329. Kamala D. Harris and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney Generals, Douglas J. Woods and Jonathan K. Renner, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, Zackery P. Morazzini, Stephen P. Acquisto, George Waters, and Seth E. Goldstein, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents, case No. C064907. Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Douglas J. Woods, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Seth E. Goldstein, Deputy Attorney General for Ana Matosantos, Director of the Department of Finance, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents, case No. C064907. Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Douglas J. Woods, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kimberly J. Graham and Seth E. Goldstein, Deputy Attorneys General for Defendants and Respondents, case No. C065390.

    Case Number: No. C064907 No. C065329 No. C065390

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 909 CALIFORNIA REDEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. ANA MAT

  • New York County First Department SUPREME COURT,

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    Justice Lucy BillingsHilton Resorts Corp. v. Borden (810308/11)—Motion Disposed As Indicatedh2 subhead="" class="articleSectionH