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  • Satterfield v. Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2008-09-02
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    Date Filed: 2008-08-29
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 3
    Judge: Jan P. Patterson, Justice
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    Case Number: 03-04-00518-CV

    OPINIONThe issue presented is whether a statute that extinguishes a litigant's right to pursue an accrued and pending common law cause of action--without providing a grace period--transcends the le

  • Lane v. Facebook, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-09-20
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    Date Filed: 2012-09-20
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Richard Seeborg, District Judge, Presiding Before: Procter Hug, Jr., Andrew J. Kleinfeld, and William A. Fletcher, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael H. Page, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, D.C.; Steven F. Helfand, Helfand Law Offices, San Francisco, California, for the objectors-appellants. Scott A. Kamber, Kamber Law, LLC, New York, New York, for the plaintiffs-appellees.
    for defendant: Michael G. Rhodes, Cooley LLP, San Francisco, California, for the defendants-appellees.
    Case Number: No. 10-16380 No. 10-16398

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 10846SEAN LANE; MOHANNAED SHEIKHA; SEAN MARTIN; ALI SAMMOUR; MOHAMMAED ZIDAN; SARA KARROW; COLBY HENSON; DENTON HUNKER; FIRAS SHEIKHA;

  • Bilski v. Kappos

    Publication Date: 2010-06-28
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    Date Filed: 2010-06-28
    Court: U.S. Sup. Ct.
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    Case Number: No. 08-964

    BERNARD L. BILSKI and RAND A. WARSAW, PETITIONERS v. DAVID J. KAPPOS, UNDER SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

  • West v. Bell

    Publication Date: 2008-12-22
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    Date Filed: 2008-12-18
    Court: 6th Cir.
    Judge: Boggs, Chief Judge
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    Case Number: Nos. 05-5132 & 6219

    RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206Argued: February 7, 2008Before: BOGGS, Chief Judge; and NORRIS and MOORE, Circuit Judges.BOGGS, C. J., delivered the op

  • Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-09-09
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    Date Filed: 2010-09-08
    Court: 9th Cir.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven M. Watt, Ben Wizner (argued), Jameel Jaffer and Steven R. Shapiro, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York; Ann Brick and Julia Harumi Mass, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, San Francisco, California; Paul Hoffman, Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman LLP, Venice, California; Hope Metcalf, National Litigation Project, Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Clive Stafford-Smith and Zachary KatzNelson, Reprieve, London, England, for plaintiff-appellant Binyam Mohamed. Margaret L. Satterthwaite and Amna Akbar, International Human Rights Clinic, Washington Square Legal Services, Inc., New York, New York, for plaintiff-appellant Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah.
    for defendant: Daniel P. Collins (argued), Paul J. Watford, Mark R. Yohalem and Henry Weissmann, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. Ian Heath Gershengorn, Michael F. Hertz, Joseph P. Russoniello, Douglas N. Letter (argued), Sharon Swingle and Michael P. Abate, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for intervenor-appellee United States of America. Gary Bostwick and Jean-Paul Jassy, Bostwick & Jassy LLP, Los Angeles, California, for amici curiae Professors William G. Weaver and Robert M. Pallitto. Barbara Moses and David J. Stankiewicz, Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C., New York, New York; Aziz Huq and Jonathan Hafetz, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, New York, New York, for amici curiae former United States diplomats. Wiliam J. Aceves, California Western School of Law, San Diego, California; Gerald Staberock and Carlos Lopez, International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland; Carla Ferstman, Lorna McGregor and Lucy Moxham, REDRESS, London, United Kingdom; Denna R. Hurwitz, Human Rights Program, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, for amici curiae REDRESS and the International Commission of Jurists. Stephen I. Vladeck, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.; Natalie L. Bridgeman, Law Offices of Natalie L. Bridgeman, San Francisco, California, for amici curiae professors of constitutional law, federal jurisdiction and foreign relations law. Andrew G. McBride, Thomas R. McCarthy and Stephen J. Obermeier, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Daniel J. Popeo and Richard A. Samp, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae Washington Legal Foundation and Allied Educational Foundation. Richard R. Wiebe, Law Office of Richard R. Wiebe, San Francisco, California; Cindy A. Cohn, Lee Tien, Kurt Opsahl, Kevin S. Bankston, Corynne Mcherry and James S. Tyre, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California, for amicus curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation. James M. Ringer, Clifford Chance US LLP, New York, New York, for amici curiae Commonwealth Lawyers Association and JUSTICE.
    Case Number: No. 08-15693

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 11814 BINYAM MOHAMED; ABOU ELKASSIM BRITEL; AHMED AGIZA; MOHAMED FARAG AHMAD BASHMILAH; BISHER AL-RAWI, Plaintiffs-Appellants, p class=

  • Elmaghraby v. Ashcroft

    Publication Date: 2005-10-04
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    Court: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District
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    U.S. DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Judge Gleeson Plaintiffs Ehab Elmaghraby and Javaid Iqbal are Muslim men from Egypt and Pakistan, respectively, who we

  • Lubin v. Farmers Group, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-11-10
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    Date Filed: 2009-11-06
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 3
    Judge: David Puryear, Justice
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    Case Number: 03-03-00374-CV

    ON REMANDMEMORANDUM OPINIONThe issue in this interlocutory appeal is whether the class action filed by the attorney general in this case was properly certified. Under former article 21.21, secti

  • Robinson v. Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-10-22
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    Date Filed: 2010-10-22
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Nathan L. Hecht Justice
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    Case Number: 06-0714

    Argued February 7, 2008JUSTICE HECHT delivered the opinion of the Court, in which CHIEF JUSTICE JEFFERSON, JUSTICE MEDINA, JUSTICE GREEN, JUSTICE WILLETT, and JUSTICE LEHRMANN joined.JUSTICE

  • Poolaw v. MarCantel

    Publication Date: 2009-05-08
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    Date Filed: 2009-05-04
    Court: 10th Cir.
    Judge: Lucero, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 07-2254

    PUBLISHBefore LUCERO, ANDERSON, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.This case requires us to address the extent to which a familial connection to a suspect supports either probable cause for a search wa

  • Harold Lee Harvey, Jr v. Warden, Union Correctional Institution Warden

    Publication Date: 2011-01-13
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    Date Filed: 2011-01-06
    Court: 11th Cir.
    Judge: Tjoflat, Circuit Judge:
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    Case Number: 08-15868

    [PUBLISH]U.S. COURT OF APPEALS ELEVENTH CIRCUITJOHN LEY CLERK(January 6, 2011)Before TJOFLAT, CARNES and WILSON, Circuit Judges.Harold Lee Harvey, Jr. is an inmate on Florida's death ro