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  • April 16, 2008 | Legal Times

    Supreme Court Sends Tax Case Back to Illinois

    Tuesday was Tax Day at the Supreme Court as it was in the rest of the nation, with the justices handing down two tax rulings, including one that could affect big corporations facing tax bills in se

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  • June 14, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Kasten v. Saint-Gobain:

    In the recent decision Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., the U.S. Supreme Court announced a significant clarification regarding retaliation in the wage and hour context. T

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  • March 12, 2004 | The Recorder

    High Court Warily Enters Fray Over Gay Marriages

    Experts on the state Supreme Court and gay issues said Thursday's orders on San Francisco's same-sex marriages signal the court's intent to proceed cautiously in an area fraught with political

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  • April 22, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Pa. Justices: Cohen's Vacant Seat May Be Added to '05 Ballot

    In a 4-2 ruling, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has affirmed a Commonwealth Court judge's decision to include a recently vacated Philadelphia Common Pleas Court seat on this year's municipal b

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  • August 4, 2008 |

    Waving Goodbye to Waivers?

    The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral argument Oct. 7 in a case involving a dispute between the estate of a deceased former employee and retirement plan participant, his former wife and the DuPont

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  • July 2, 2009 | The Recorder

    Walker Wants Lots of Evidence on Prop 8 �

    SAN FRANCISCO &3151; In putting a federal challenge to Proposition 8 on the fast track to trial, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker also placed a laser-like focus on the evidence he believ

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  • August 4, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Review sought on judicial recusals

    WASHINGTON — The ethical hornets' nest stirred up by the refusal of an acting West Virginia chief justice to recuse himself from a multimillion-dollar appeal involving his major cam

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  • September 17, 2007 |

    Cappy Stepping Down

    In a stunning close to a tumultuous chapter in the state Supreme Court's history, Chief Justice Ralph J. Cappy told his colleagues in Pittsburgh Monday that he would step down by year's end, accord

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  • December 14, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Pa. Law Weekly - People in the News - December 14, 2010

    Addition Christine M. Prokopick has joined Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads as a litigation associate in the firm's Philadelphia office.

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  • August 14, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    State Appeals Court Says Tribe's Lawsuits Will Go Forward Despite its wishes, the Oneida Indian Nation must proceed with lawsuits it filed in state court over whether nation-ow

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