• December 28, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Citing Gamesmanship, U.S. Judge Plugs Loophole in Removal Statute

    A federal judge in New Jersey has blown the whistle on product liability defendants who had taken advantage of state-court clerical delays to remove their cases to federal court. U.S.

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  • June 17, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Dual Fen-Phen Cases Dismissed for Lack Of Doctors' Testimony

    The coordinating judge of Philadelphia's Complex Litigation Center has dismissed two more Fen-Phen cases in which the physicians who originally prescribed the plaintiffs diet drugs were not de

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  • July 31, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Act 13 Ruling Could Put Shale Play In Doubt, Lawyers Say

    Oil and gas operators hoping for an all-access pass to drill in Pennsylvania were thwarted last week when the Commonwealth Court ruled as unconstitutional amendments to the state's Oil and Ga

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  • February 8, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Newspaper Wins Access To Leniency Records

    A Superior Court panel has ordered the administrative judge of Allegheny County's criminal division to release to the media copies of leniency letters filed with the court in support of a form

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  • January 2, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Alphabetical Names for State Case Digests

    In the Matter of A.A. (see HEALTH LAW � Advanced Directives for Health Care Act � Electro-convulsive Therapy � Living Wills), Ch. Div. p. 353 Afram v. Heller (see INSURANCE � Automobil

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  • September 26, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Law Firms Massing to Help War Vets

    Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr attorney John Harwood, who was a Marine Corps platoon leader in the Vietnam War, and Nicholas Henry, a third-year law student in Chicago and Iraq veteran, don'

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  • USAA Casualty Ins. Co. v. Permanent Mission of the Republic of Namibia, 10-4892-cv

    Publication Date: 2012-05-30
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Cabranes and Wesley, C.JJ.1
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellee USAA Casualty Insurance Co.: Robert William Phelan, Cozen O'Connor, New York, NY
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant Permanent Mission of the Republic of Namibia.: Jay M. Levin (Carolyn P. Short, on the brief), Reed Smith LLP, Philadelphia, PA

    Case Number: 10-4892-cv

    Cite as: USAA Casualty Ins. Co. v. Permanent Mission of the Republic of Namibia, 10-4892-cv, NYLJ 1202556341304, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided May 25, 2012)Befo

  • May 27, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    New Trial Ordered Over Counsel Error

    A clash between the federal and New York state standards for ineffectiveness of counsel led the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to order authorities to either release or retry a c

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  • March 13, 2006 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    New partners Baker & Daniels (Indianapolis): Nicholas E. Mathioudakis joins the emerging companies and private capital group as a partner in the firm's Indianapolis offic

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  • Perez v. Torres

    Publication Date: 2012-05-24
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    Date Filed: 2012-05-24
    Court: C.A. 5th
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Reed Smith, Margaret M. Grignon, Raymond A. Cardozo and Zareh A. Jaltorossian for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Horvitz & Levy, Stephen E. Norris, Andrea A. Ambrose; Gordon & Rees, Jewel Kolling Basse and Charles S. Custer for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. F061214

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 5710 MARTA L. PEREZ, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. GUSTAVO DAVALOS TORRES, Defendant an