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  • December 14, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Former SGs discuss role as 'Dr. No'

    Any part of the legal career of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall would have made him a legend. But he often said that serving as solicitor general of the United States from 19

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  • June 18, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Amicus Brief Disclosure Rule Widely Opposed

    Groups ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to withdraw a proposed rule that the groups say would compromise the p

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  • June 9, 2000 | Alm

    Court Tea Leaf Readers

    When the Supreme Court hands down its long-awaited decision on federal aid to parochial schools in Mitchell v. Helms, don't be surprised if Justice Clarence Thomas is the author of the

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  • August 6, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Law Clinics Get Cut Of The Action

    Yale's among those to appear before high court this term While veteran U.S. Supreme Court litigators compete for a share of the dwindling high court docket, there are new kids on the b

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  • July 13, 2004 | Legal Times

    High Court's Penchant for Familiar Voices

    When Carter Phillips rose to argue in the case of Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices Inc., on April 20, it was his fifth Supreme Court oral argument of the term, but something of a f

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  • November 9, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Class actions on the ropes? Not likely

    A victory for consumers and class action litigators seemed possible on Tuesday as the Supreme Court heard arguments in a high-stakes dispute over clauses that block class actions as a way of re

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  • September 27, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    High court's term on Georgia's mind

    THE ADDITION OF CASES on voter identification and lethal injection to the U.S. Supreme Court's schedule on Tuesday set up the term as one to watch for Georgia lawyers. While those case

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  • Brown v. Philip Morris, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-05-18
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2001-05-17
    Court: 3rd Cir.
    Judge: Roth, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 99-1931

    Argued January 19, 2001OPINION OF THE COURTMentholated tobacco products apparently pose greater health risks than non-mentholated ones. Plaintif fs, a group of African-Americans, brought a civil

  • June 28, 2012 | National Law Journal

    In health care and immigration cases, vindication for Verrilli

    Toward the end of his much-criticized oral argument over the health care individual mandate on March 27, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. made a spirited pitch for a little-noticed argum

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  • April 28, 2003 | The Recorder

    The Eldred Blogs

    Editor's note: Lawrence Lessig, who argued Eldred v. Ashcroft on behalf of the plaintiff, Eric Eldred, maintained a running Web log, also known as a "blog," throughout various

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