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  • February 28, 2008 | Bloomberg

    Goldman, Lehman may not have dodged credit crisis

    Even Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. may find they haven't dodged the credit crisis. The new source of potential losses: so-called variable interest entitie

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  • April 27, 2009 | National Law Journal

    VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS

    CONTRACTS Verdict over busted sports sale sustained ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia superior court judge ruled on April 22 that Turner Broadcasti

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  • Brown v. Philip Morris, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-05-18
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    Date Filed: 2001-05-17
    Court: 3rd Cir.
    Judge: Roth, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 99-1931

    Argued January 19, 2001OPINION OF THE COURTMentholated tobacco products apparently pose greater health risks than non-mentholated ones. Plaintif fs, a group of African-Americans, brought a civil

  • Acticon AG v. China North East Petroleum Holdings Ltd., 11-4544-cv

    Publication Date: 2012-08-03
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Winter, Straub, and Lynch, CJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Marc I. Gross, R. James Hodgson, Tamar Weinrib, on the brief, Jeremy A. Lieberman, Pomerantz Haudek Grossman & Gross, New York, NY.
    for defendant: for Defendants-Appellees China North East Petroleum Holdings Limited, Wang Hong Jun, Zhang Yang, and Ju Guizhi:, Jaime J. Santos, The Crone Law Group, San Francisco, CA, Lawrence Brocchini, Reaves Parent Lehrer LLP, New York, NY, on the brief, Michael J. Coffino, The Crone Law Group, San Francisco, CA. For Defendant-Appellee Robert C. Bruce Edwin G. Schallert, Christine Ford, Jared I. Kagan, of counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY.
    Case Number: 11-4544-cv

    Cite as: Acticon AG v. China North East Petroleum Holdings Ltd., 11-4544-cv, NYLJ 1202565814984, at *1 (2d Cir, Decided August 1, 2012)Before: Winter, Str

  • August 11, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Judge Limits Reliance Theory in Securities Class Action Case

    A federal judge has denied a motion for class certification made by a group of investors seeking to hold accounting firm BDO Seidman responsible for poor returns on their purchase of notes and othe

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  • January 16, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Ernst & Young Off the Hook in Securities Fraud Suit

    IKON Office Solutions Inc. paid $111 million to settle a shareholders' suit that accused the company of overstating its income, but a federal appeals court has now ruled that the same in

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  • Acticon Ag v. China North East Petroleum Holdings Limited, Wang Hong Jun, Zhang Yang, Ju

    Publication Date: 2012-08-06
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    Date Filed: 2012-08-01
    Court: 2d Cir.
    Judge: Straub, Circuit Judge:
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    Case Number: 11-4544-cv

    11-4544-cv Acticon AG v. China North East Petroleum, Ltd. Argued: May 17, 2012 36 Before: WINTER, STRAUB, and LYNCH, Circuit Judges. The 41 plaintiffs alleged that

  • January 11, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Circuit Rejects Investors' Claims of Deceptive Conduct by Refco

    Customers of the defunct Refco Capital Markets Ltd. who claimed principals at the firm violated securities laws by abusing customer securities pledged for margin trading through the firm's own trad

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  • January 24, 2008 | Legal Times

    Subprime Suits Fuel a Boom for Some Large Firms

    A litigation army is massing at major law firms to fight the wave of investigations, class actions and bankruptcies that are expected in the coming months -- and years -- in the wake of the sub

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  • Patrick Collins, Inc. v. John Doe, 12-CV-1154 (ADS)(GRB)

    Publication Date: 2013-05-22
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Eastern District
    Judge: District Judge: Arthur D. Spatt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for the Plaintiff by: Jason Aaron Kotzker, Esq., of Counsel, Kotzker Law Group, Highlands Ranch, CO.
    for defendant: Attorneys for the Defendant by: Michael A. Scotto, Esq., Robert C. Angelillo, Esq., of Counsel Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein PC, New York, NY.
    Case Number: 12-CV-1154 (ADS)(GRB)

    Cite as: Patrick Collins, Inc. v. John Doe, 12-CV-1154 (ADS)(GRB), NYLJ 1202601021448, at *1 (EDNY, Decided May 18, 2013)District Judge: Arthur D. Sp