• March 8, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    Imprisoned U.K. executive's case tests the strength of attorney-client privilege

    A federal appeals court is due to rule next week in a case that could decide just how far prosecutors can go to pierce a corporate executive's attorney-client privilege. Both sides hav

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  • December 12, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

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    CONTRACTS Exterminator liable for not treating nursing home for fire ants A nursing home whose patient was attacked by fire ants was awarded $156,000 on Oct. 26 by a Dal

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  • October 25, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

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    EXCESSIVE FORCE K-9 bite during arrest not excessive, jury finds On Sept. 10, a jury declined to award damages to a man who claimed a police officer used excessive force when his

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  • January 10, 2007 | Special To Law.Com

    Do Web Sites Need to Be Accessible to the Blind?

    An advocacy group has sued Target Corp., claiming that Target's Web site is incompatible with software used by the blind and that such incompatibility is a violation of the Americans with Disabilit

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  • October 7, 2009 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    3rd Circuit Dismisses Habeas Petition of Inmate Convicted in Absentia

    The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against a voluntarily pro se defendant who claimed his constitutional rights were violated because the court did not appoint standby cou

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  • December 18, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

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    Employment Company told manager to remove angel figurines A federal judge dismissed the complaint of a woman alleging religious and age discrimination against her former

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  • September 21, 2007 | New York Law Journal

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    A settlement reached early this month in consolidated federal lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and pro bono

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  • September 21, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Public Interest Projects

    A settlement reached early this month in consolidated federal lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and pro bono

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  • June 26, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

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    ANIMALS Pool man attacked by dog recovers more than $100,000 A pool cleaner who fell and broke his back while climbing a gate to get away from the homeowner's 65-pound d

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  • June 9, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

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    ADMIRALTY/MARITIME No award for barge worker who herniated disks in workplace fall On May 7, a judge found against a cleaning technician who al

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