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November 28, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Saudi Basic Industries Corp. v. ExxonMobil Corp.

U.S. District Court CIVIL PRACTICE � Collateral Estoppel � Equity � Unclean Hands Saudi Basic Industries Corp. v. ExxonMobil Corp. Civil No. 98-4897; United St

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In re NCAA Student-Athlete Name & Likeness Licensing Litigation

Publication Date: 2013-07-31
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Date Filed: 2013-07-31
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Claudia A. Wilken, District Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges, and Gordon J. Quist, Senior District Judge.*
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steve W. Berman (argued) and Erin K. Flory, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Seattle, Washington; Robert Carey and Leonard Aragon, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Phoenix, Arizona, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
for defendant: Kelli L. Sager (argued), Alonzo Wickers IV, Karen A. Henry, Lisa J. Kohn and Anna R. Buono, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Los Angeles, California; Robert A. Van Nest, Steven A. Hirsch and R. James Slaughter, Keker & Van Nest, LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendant-Appellant. Douglas E. Mirell, Loeb & Loeb LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amicus Curiae Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. Amy E. Margolin, Bien & Summers, San Francisco, California; Michael Rubin and P. Casey Pitts, Altshuler Berzon LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amici Curiae National Football League Players Association, Major League Baseball Players Association, National Basketball Players Association, National Hockey League Players' Association, and Major League Soccer Players Union. Thomas R. Carpenter and Purvi Patel, American Federation of Television & Radio Artists, AFL-CIO, New York, New York; Duncan Crabtree-Ireland and Danielle S. Van Lier, Screen Actors Guild, Inc., Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae Screen Actors Guild, Inc., American Federation of Television & Radio Artists, AFL-CIO, Writers Guild of America, West, Inc., Creative Property Rights Alliance, Fifty Six Hope Road Music Ltd., Luminary Group LLC, Thomas Steinbeck, and Gail Knight Steinbeck. Nathan Siegel and Lee Levine, Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, L.L.P., Washington, District of Columbia, for Amici Curiae Advance Publications, A&E Television Networks, Allied Daily Newspapers of Washington, Association of American Publishers, Activision, California Newspaper Publishers Association, Capcom USA, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, E! Entertainment Television, ESPN, First Amendment Coalition, First Amendment Project, Freedom Communications, The Gannett Company, Gawker Media, Hybrid Films, ITV Studios, Konami Digital Entertainment, The Los Angeles Times, The McClatchy Company, Namco Bandai Games America, Original Productions, The Press­Enterprise Company, Radio Television Digital News Association, Sirens Media, Take Two Interactive Software, Thq, Viacom, The Washington Newspaper Publishers Association, and Wenner Media. Gregory L. Cutner and Robert J. Wierenga, Schiff Harden, LLP, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Rocky N. Unruh, Schiff Hardin, LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae National Collegiate Athletic Association.** ** The NCAA's motion to file its amicus brief is GRANTED.
Case Number: No. 10-15387

Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 8156 IN RE: NCAA STUDENT-ATHLETE NAME & LIKENESS LICENSING LITIGATION, SAMUEL MICHAEL KELLER;

January 16, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Scope of 'Probate Exception' To Be Determined

The United States Supreme Court is about to decide an infamous probate dispute, even though probate cases generally are not heard in the federal court system. In fact, under the "probate excep

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October 10, 2013 | New Jersey Law Journal

In re Pendleton

In re Pendleton, No. 12-3617; Third Circuit; per curiam opinion; filed October 3, 2013. Before Judges Rendell, Jordan and Greenaway Jr. On applications for leave to file a second or successi

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United States v. Pierce

Publication Date: 2010-10-11
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Date Filed: 2010-10-01
Court: 3rd Cir.
Judge: Hayden, District Judge.
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Case Number: 09-3865

PRECEDENTIALSubmitted under Third Circuit L.A.R. 34.1(a) May 11, 2010Before: BARRY, ROTH, Circuit Judges and HAYDEN,*fn1 District Judge.OPINIONWhen a narc

May 24, 2011 | Legal Times

FTC Challenges Pay-to-Delay Deal in Rare Amicus Filing

The Federal Trade Commission has filed an amicus brief in a class action that questions whether brand name drug companies can pay generic rivals to stay out of the market until a patent expires./p

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April 18, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

People in the News

HonoredFor its 170th anniversary this year, The Legalis honoring its first group of Lifetime Achievement Award winners. The 27 recipients are being hono

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May 16, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Streamlining Discovery Main Topic for Proposed Fed. Rule Changes

Less is more. That was the premise under which the committee recommending changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure operated, said U.S. D t Judge Gene E.K. Pratter of the Eastern D

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Lefever v. K.P. Hovnanian Enters., Inc.

Publication Date: 1999-07-29
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Date Filed: 1999-07-29
Court: In the Supreme Court of New Jersey
Judge: CHIEF JUSTICE PORITZ, JUSTICES HANDLER and STEIN, JUSTICE O'HERN
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dennis S. Brotman
for defendant: Steven I. Greene
Case Number: No. A- 211

The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion.The opinion of the Court was delivered by O'HERN, J. This appeal concerns the meaning of the product-line ex

Rinehart v. Akers, 11-4232-cv

Publication Date: 2013-07-16
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Judge: Before: Sack, Wesley, C.JJ., Nathan, D.J.**
Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants: Daniel W. Krasner, Gregory M. Nespole, Matthew M. Guiney, Beth A. Landes, Maja Lukic, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, New York, NY; Thomas J. McKenna, Gainey & McKenna, New York, NY, on the brief, Mark C. Rifkin, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, Interim Co-Lead Counsel.
for defendant: For the Benefit Committee Defendants-Appellees: Janet Gochman, Hiral D. Mehta, on the brief, Jonathan K. Youngwood, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY. For all of the Director Defendants-Appellees: Other than Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Andrew J. Levander, Kathleen N. Massey, Dechert LLP, New York, NY; Thomas K. Johnson II, J. Ian Downes, Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA, on the brief, Adam J. Wasserman. For Defendant-Appellee: Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Patricia M. Hynes, Todd S. Fishman, Allen & Overy LLP, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae Hilda L. Solis, Secretary of the United States Department of Labor., M. Patricia Smith, Solicitor of Labor, Timothy D. Hauser, Associate Solicitor for Plan Benefits Security, Elizabeth Hopkins, Counsel for Appellate and Special Litigation, on the brief, Benjamin R. Botts, Attorney, United States Department of Labor, Washington, DC.
Case Number: 11-4232-cv

Cite as: Rinehart v. Akers, 11-4232-cv, NYLJ 1202611058774, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided July 15, 2013) 11-4232-cv Before: Sack, Wesley, C.JJ., Nathan