• April 11, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Signs Point Away From Judicial Raises in Ga. This Year

    Judges in Georgia might have to wait until next year for a pay raise. Legislation that would give raises to jurists on the Georgia Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and superior courts passed

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  • US v. Robert Coplan, 10-583-cr(L)

    Publication Date: 2012-12-03
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Kearse, McLaughlin, and Cabranes, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellee United States of America: Richard C. Tarlowe, Assistant United States Attorney, (Mark Lanpher, Andrea L. Surratt, and Katherine Polk Failla, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant Robert Coplan: Dennis P. Riordan, (Donald M. Horgan and Gary Dubcoff, on the brief), Riordan & Horgan, San Francisco, CA; Ted Sampsell Jones, William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, MN. For Defendant-Appellant Martin Nissenbaum: Nathan Lewin, (Alyza D. Lewin, on the brief), Lewin & Lewin, LLP, Washington, DC. Of counsel; For Defendant-Appellant Richard Shapiro: Alexandra A.E. Shapiro, (Marc E. Isserles and James Darrow, on the brief), Macht, Shapiro, Arato & Isserles LLP, New York, NY; Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C., New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellant Brian Vaughn: Robert G. Anderson, (Donna Brown Jacobs, on the brief) Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC, Ridgeland, MS. For Defendant-Appellant Charles Bolton: Marc N. Garber, The Garber Law Firm, P.C., Marietta, GA. For amicus curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; in support of Defendants-Appellants: Joshua L. Dratel, Joshua L. Dratel, P.C., New York, NY, for amicus curiae New York Council of Defense Lawyers; Laura Grossfield Birger and Rachel B. Kane, Cooley LLP, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 10-583-cr(L)

    Cite as: US v. Robert Coplan, 10-583-cr(L), NYLJ 1202579883765, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided November 29, 2012)Before: Kearse, McLaughlin, and Cabranes, C

  • In re Reed

    Publication Date: 2008-06-11
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    Date Filed: 2008-06-05
    Court: D.C. Ct. App.
    Judge: Per curiam.
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    Case Number: 07-BG-88

    On Report and Recommendation of the Board on Professional Responsibility(BD No. 383-06)Submitted May 20, 2008Before FARRELL and GLICKMAN, Associate Judges, and SCHWELB, Senior Judge.In thi

  • Taylor v. Roper

    Publication Date: 2009-09-04
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    Date Filed: 2009-08-19
    Court: 8th Cir.
    Judge: Colloton, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 07-2882

    Submitted: January 15, 2009Before BYE, COLLOTON, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.A jury convicted Leon Taylor of first-degree murder under Missouri law, and a different jury sentenced him to death.

  • July 5, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

    Speakers Stewart J. Eisenberg, a partner at Eisenberg Rothweiler Schleifer Weinstein & Winkler, was a speaker at the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers CLE seminar tit

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  • May 17, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

    State v. Cook

    N.J. Supreme Court A-66 September Term 2002; Supreme Court; opinion by LaVecchia, J.; dissent by Long, J.; decided May 10, 2004. On certification to the Appellate Divisi

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  • December 28, 2012 | The Recorder

    Liu's Put Together a Record of Restraint

    SAN FRANCISCO — Goodwin Liu was perplexed. Hearing a capital appeal last month, the California Supreme Court justice seemed troubled that the trial judge had quickly rejected juro

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  • May 20, 2008 | Legal Times

    Supreme Court Upholds State Municipal Bond Exemption

    The Supreme Court rescued the municipal bond market from major disruption Monday by upholding the power of states to give preferential tax treatment to residents who hold bonds from their own state

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  • December 13, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Oregon justice elected ULC president

    Oregon Supreme Court Justice Martha Lee Walters has been elected president of the Uniform Law Commission's Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, the first woman to lead the

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  • August 1, 2008 | The Recorder

    Are Reply Briefs Really Necessary?

    California Supreme Court Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar finds them "very useful." State 4th District Court of Appeal Justice Barton Gaut thinks they're mostly a waste of paper. And seve

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