• In re Williams

    Publication Date: 2014-08-11
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    Date Filed: 2014-08-08
    Court: C.A. 2nd
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald L. Brown, Public Defender, Albert J. Menaster, Bret Rayburn and Robin Bernstein-Lev, Deputy Public Defenders for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Lawrence Beach Allen & Choi, Paul B. Beach and Matthew P. Allen for Respondent Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

    Case Number: No. B252654

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 9081 In re GARY DONNELL WILLIAMS, on Habeas Corpus. No. B252654 In The Cour

  • Young v. Daimler AG

    Publication Date: 2014-08-06
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    Date Filed: 2014-07-07
    Court: C.A. 1st
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: The Brandi Law Firm, Casey Kaufman and Daniel Dell'Osso for Plaintiff and Appellant
    for defendant: Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, Justs N. Karlsons, Matthew J. Kemner, David M. Rice, and Nathaniel K. Fisher for Defendant and Respondent

    Case Number: No. A135999

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 8939 KIMBERLY PATRICE YOUNG et al., Plaintiffs and Appellant

  • La Quinta Worldwide LLC v. Q.R.T.M.

    Publication Date: 2014-08-06
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    Date Filed: 2014-08-06
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Raner C. Collins, Chief District Judge, Presiding Before: Barry G. Silverman and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Ivan L.R. Lemelle, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph C. Gioconda (argued) & Jonathan A. Malki, Gioconda Law Group PLLC, New York, New York, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Richard P. Jacobson (argued), Frank J. Colucci & Janice K. Yoon, Colucci & Umans, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellant.

    Case Number: No. 12-15985

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 8933 LA QUINTA WORLDWIDE LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Q.R.T.M., S.A.

  • People v. Capistrano

    Publication Date: 2014-08-05
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    Date Filed: 2014-08-04
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edmund G. Brown and Kamala D. Harris, Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, John R. Gorey, Joseph P. Lee and Margaret E. Maxwell, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Kathleen M. Scheidel, Assistant State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No: S067394

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 8844 THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOHN LEO CAPISTRANO, D

  • August 5, 2014 | New York Law Journal

    Tinkering With the Machinery of Death

    In a 1995 opinion denying Supreme Court review to a death row prisoner about to be executed, Justice Antonin Scalia remarked, in comparing the brutal murder of a young girl to the prisoner&#

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  • August 4, 2014 | Litigation Daily

    Posner Rips Conan Doyle Estate (Again) Over Sherlock Copyrights

    Likening the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to a shakedown artist, Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has once again ruled for a California lawyer wh

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  • August 1, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

    The Supreme Court's Class Action Certification Trilogy

    A trifecta of recent U.S. Supreme Court opinions has decisively transformed Rule 23 class certification from a pleading proceeding to a proof proceeding. The class certification hearing, pos

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  • Bristol-Myers Squibb Company v. Superior Court (Anderson)

    Publication Date: 2014-07-31
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    Date Filed: 2014-07-30
    Court: C.A. 1st
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Petitioner Arnold & Porter, Sean M. SeLegue, Sharon D. Mayo, Jeremy McLaughlin, Steven G. Reade, Maurice A. Letter
    for defendant: Attorneys for Real Parties in Interest Bracy Anderson, et al., Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik, LLP, Hunter J. Shkolnik, Jessica Y. Lee, Shayna E. Sacks

    Case Number: No. A140035

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 8653 BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERI

  • McLaughlin v. Payne

    Publication Date: 2014-07-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: August F. Siemon III, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S14A0220

    Because istrict attorney was wholly disqualified from the case, the assistant district attorneys on his staff—whose only power to prosecute a case is derived from the constitutional authority o

  • People v.Boyce

    Publication Date: 2014-07-28
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    Date Filed: 2014-07-28
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Holly D. Wilkens, Christine Levingston Bergman and Theodore M. Cropley, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Douglas Ward, Deputy State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No: S092240

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 8413 THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. KEVIN DEWAYN BOYCE, De