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  • June 23, 2006 | Legal Times

    Texas hold 'em: biggest game in town

    The game exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. - Walter Matthau THE MAN IN THE DRIVEWAY finishes his cigarette and kicks the butt. It'

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  • Legal Profession ATSI Communications v. The Shaar Fund 08-1815-cv U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit Before: Jacobs, Ch.J., Calabresi and Pooler, C.JJ. Decided: Sept. 2, 2009

    Publication Date: 2009-09-04
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    Legal Profession ATSI Communications v. The Shaar Fund 08-1815-cv U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit Before: Jacobs, Ch.J., Calabresi and Pooler, C.JJ. De

  • March 1, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Circuit used wrong standard in DOMA ruling, brief argues

    Lawyers for the Republican majority in the House of Representatives are disputing on several fronts

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  • June 4, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Critics blast Sotomayor's reversal rate

    When legendary appeals judge Learned Hand did not like how the U.S. Supreme Court disposed of one of his cases in 1954, he protested privately to Justice Felix Frankfurter. "I felt ... a sens

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  • November 28, 2006 | Legal Times

    High court may imperil pending patents

    WHEN KENNETH BASS III clerked at the Supreme Court in 1969, his justice, the late Hugo Black, told him confidentially what he thought of patents. "He told me that in his lifetime, he

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  • February 1, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Circuit Used Wrong Standard in DOMA Ruling, Brief Argues

    Lawyers for the Republican majority in the House of Representatives are disputing on several fronts

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  • April 28, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

    Attorney, Interrupted: Seeking Meaning, Recovery for a Legal Life Lost

    It was a suicide no one saw coming. By every account South Texas lawyer Hermes Villarreal was a man at the top of his game. He had a beautiful, loving wife, three happy school-aged children, a

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  • Dresner v. Utility.com Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-05-25
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    U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Judge Stein This suit arises from a dot com deal turned sour. Plaintiffs sold their communications software company-V

  • Eid v. Alaska Airlines, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-07-30
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    Date Filed: 2010-07-30
    Court: 9th Cir.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gilbert Gaynor (argued), Santa Barbara, California, John F. McHugh, New York, New York, and Allen Lichtenstein, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the plaintiffs-appellants.
    for defendant: Beth S. Brinkman (argued) and Seth M. Galanter, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, Washington, D.C., Carrie McCrea Hanlon, Pyatt Silverstri & Hanlon, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Don G. Rushing, William V. O?Connor and Ellen Nudelman, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Diego, California, for the defendant-appellee. Stephen B. Mashney, Mashney Law Offices, Anaheim, California, for amicus curiae American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Jonathan A. Cohen and James W. Johnson, Air Line Pilots Association, International, Herndon, Virginia, for amicus curiae Air Line Pilots Association, International. Robert McGeorge and Poolust N Udai Fulena, International Air Transport Association, Washington, D.C., and Andrew J. Harakas, Diane W. Wilson and Barry S. Alexander, Clyde & Co. US LLP, New York, New York, for amicus curiae International Air Transport Association. David A. Berg and Katherine Andrus, Air Transport Association of America, Inc., Washington, D.C., and Constance O?Keefe, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Air Transport Association of America, Inc. Gregory G. Katsas, Michael S. Raab and Sarang Vijay Damle, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae United States of America. Tarik S. Adlai, Law Offices of Tarik S. Adlai, Pasadena, California, for amicus curiae Arab Republic of Egypt.
    Case Number: No. 06-16457

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 9697AZZA EID; AMRE R. GINENA; NAHID I. GINENA; REDA A. GINENA; SABRINA KOBERT; M. SAMIR MANSOUR; NAZMI M. NAZMI; M. MAGDY H. RASIKH; HEBA NA

  • United States of America v. James Werra

    Publication Date: 2011-03-27
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    Date Filed: 2011-03-22
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Lipez, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 09-1593

    Before Lipez, Howard and Thompson, Circuit Judges.This case raises challenging questions about the legality of a stop-and-frisk conducted after law enforcement officers forced their way into a hous