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  • January 10, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

    Here Come the Judges: Go Behind the Blackboard at the College for New Judges

    The yard signs have been picked up, and the campaign donors have been thanked. Now, all that's left to do for the more than 100 incoming jurists who gathered in Austin last month is to start

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  • Richard Betker v. Rodolfogomez, Police Officer

    Publication Date: 2012-09-10
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    Date Filed: 2012-09-05
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: Williams, Circuit Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 11-3009

    ARGUED JUNE 8, 2012Before POSNER, FLAUM, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.Richard Betker was shot twice during a late-night police raid on his home. The officer who shot him was part of a tact

  • Professional Engineers in California Government v. Schwarzenegger

    Publication Date: 2010-10-04
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    Date Filed: 2010-10-04
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Offices of Brooks Ellison and Patrick J. Whalen for Plaintiffs and Appellants California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers in State Employment. Paul Harris and Anne M. Giese for Plaintiff and Appellant Service Employees International Union Local 1000. Gerald A. James; Altshuler Berzon, Stephen P. Berzon and Danielle Leonard for Plaintiffs and Appellants Professional Engineers in California Government and California Association of Professional Scientists. Reed Smith, Harvey L. Leiderman and Jeffrey R. Rieger for Teachers? Retirement Board of the California State Teachers? Retirement System as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants. Kelly Vent as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Richard J. Chivaro, Ronald V. Placet, Shawn D. Silva, Ana Maria Garza; Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, Robin B. Johansen and Margaret R. Prinzing for Defendant and Appellant. K. William Curtis, Warren C. Stracener, Linda A. Mayhew, Will M. Yamada; Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, David W. Tyra, Kristianne T. Seargeant and Meredith H. Packer for Defendants and Respondents. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Gordon B. Burns, Deputy State Solicitor General, Jonathan K. Renner, Assistant Attorney General, James M. Humes Stephen P. Acquisto and Mark R. Beckington, Deputy Attorneys General, for California Constitutional Officers as Amicus Curiae.
    Case Number: No. S183411

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 12808PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS IN CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT, et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. p class="casenam

  • August 17, 2010 | Daily Report Online

    "A sad chapter" is repeated

    The comments of lawyers, court officials and friends all say "it's a sad chapter for the judge." What is missing is that it's a sad chapter for the women as well. I read about the resi

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  • September 26, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    The 'pinnacle' of a full career

    He was surrounded by hundreds of friends from the bench and bar last week, but Senior Judge Anthony A. Alaimo brought a host of other guests, from across centuries and continents, to the

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  • February 1, 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 decad

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  • January 28, 2005 | National Law Journal

    As Millions of Boomers Retire, Courts Must Adjust

    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 decad

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  • August 20, 2007 | The Associated Press

    Site where Freedom Riders beaten now unused and deteriorating

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. AP - The old Greyhound bus station where Freedom Riders were beaten in 1961 now sits empty, with only a sign on the sidewalk recounting how it was a historic tipping point in

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  • June 14, 2001 | Legal Times

    A Look Back at the Law's Handling of the Lincoln Assassination

    Good Friday was the dayOf the Prodigy and crime,When they killed him in his pity,When they killed him in his prime. . . .There is sobbing of the strong,And a pall upon the

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  • November 17, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Capital Formation And Congress

    Over the last few weeks, the House of Representatives has passed three bills, in each case by an over 400 vote margin, that create new exemptions under the Securities Act of 1933 in the hopes of fo

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