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  • December 4, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    News in Brief

    A man serving life without parole for stabbing his neighbor more than 80 times with a samurai sword and setting the victim's clothes on fire was awarded $1 by a federal jury that ruled five of the

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  • Warfield v. Lebanon Correctional Institution

    Publication Date: 1999-07-01
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    Date Filed: 1999-07-01
    Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
    Judge: KRUPANSKY, BOGGS, and CLAY, Circuit Judges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teresa L. Cunningham
    for defendant: Marla K. Bressler
    Case Number: No. 98-3588

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. _________________OPINION_________________BOGGS, Circuit Judge. Carla Warfield app

  • Bergeron v. Cabral

    Publication Date: 2009-03-16
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    Date Filed: 2009-03-09
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Selya, Circuit Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 08-1683

    Before Lynch, Chief Judge, Selya and Siler,*fn1 Circuit Judges.This interlocutory appeal requires us to determine whether defendant-appellant Andrea Cabral, the du

  • January 24, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Lawyers brace for flood of elderly

    About 70 million baby boomers are close to hitting their retirement years, a seismic demographic shift that will dramatically alter the way attorneys and courts do business in the coming

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  • January 16, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Schools' Free Speech Dilemmas

    The free speech wars continue to be waged on university campuses, producing their fair share of First Amendment litigation.While campus "speech codes" that discipline students for offe

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  • June 8, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    'Answerability' Advocacy for the Trial-Convicted Defendant

    You won't find the words "answerability" or "accountability" in the federal Sentencing Guidelines. Nonetheless, they are words definitely worth considering in representing an in

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  • August 24, 2009 | Special To Law.Com

    Silly, Baseless Lawsuits

    Every now and again, one encounters a lawsuit so silly on its face -- so transparently ridiculous -- it makes one wonder if the justice system fails us by allowing it to even get filed, let alone l

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  • October 22, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    Clayton v. State

    Click here for the full text of this decisionFACTS: On June 14, 2001, Angela Davis, an employee of

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  • Wilson v. Rees

    Publication Date: 2010-10-18
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    Date Filed: 2010-10-14
    Court: 6th Cir.
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    Case Number: 09-6306

    RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206Before: BATCHELDER, Chief Judge; MARTIN, BOGGS, MOORE, COLE, CLAY, GILMAN, GIBBONS, ROGERS, SUTTON, COOK, McKEAGUE, GRIFFIN,

  • November 17, 2008 | The Recorder

    May I See Your Permit, Mr. Monkey?

    G . K. Chesterton said, “When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty. You do not even get anarchy. You get small laws.” And when you break the small laws, some

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