• January 31, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    Getting Fired: Don't Deal With the In-House Counsel and Deal With It Publicly?

    This is the kind of bad review that in-house counsel never want to hear. Although, hey, it's impossible to please everybody right? Waaaaaay back in May 2008, Paul Hastings fired senio

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  • Brennan Center for Justice v. Department of Justice

    Publication Date: 2012-10-04
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Calabresi, Sack, and Hall, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellee: Dorothy Heyl (Elizabeth M. Virga, on the brief) Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellants: Sharon Swingle (Benjamin H. Torrance, Sarah S. Normand, Beth S. Brinkmann, Michael S. Raab, on the brief), for Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY. Amici Curiae: Melanie Sloan, Anne L. Weismann, Adam J. Rappaport, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Washington, DC; David L. Sobel, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Washington, DC; Mark Rumold, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA.

    Case Number: 11-4599

    Cite as: Brennan Center for Justice v. Department of Justice, 11-4599, NYLJ 1202573791836, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided September 19, 2012)Before: Calabresi, S

  • Farrakhan v. Gregoire

    Publication Date: 2010-10-08
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    Date Filed: 2010-10-07
    Court: 9th Cir.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan P. Haygood (argued), John Payton, Theodore Shaw, Norman J. Chachkin, Debo P. Adegbile, Kristen Clarke and Dale E. Ho, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, New York, Danielle C. Gray, New York, New York, and Lawrence A. Weiser, University Legal Assistance at Gonzaga Law School, Spokane, Washington, for plaintiffs-appellants.
    for defendant: Robert M. McKenna (argued), Attorney General, Daniel J. Judge, Senior Counsel, and Jeffrey T. Even, Carol Murphy and William B. Collins, Deputy Solicitors General, Olympia, Washington, for defendants-appellees. Derek S. Tarson and Marianne Koh, Of Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, New York, for amici curiae Twenty-Three Leading Criminologists. Sharon L. Browne and Ralph W. Kasarda, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California, for amici curiae Pacific Legal Foundation and Center for Equal Opportunity. Thomas C. Goldstein, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, D.C., and Pamela S. Karlan and Jeffrey L. Fisher, Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford, California, for amici curiae Thirteen Law Professors. Daniel F. Kolb and Edmund Polubinski III, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, New York, for amicus curiae Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. Juan Cartagena, Community Service Society, New York, New York, for amicus curiae Community Service Society. Elizabeth B. Wydra, Douglas T. Kendall and David H. Gans, Constitutional Accountability Center, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Constitutional Accountability Center. Whitty Somvichian, Kyle C. Wong, Kelly Cooke and Tyler Onitsuka, Cooley LLP, San Francisco, California, for amici curiae Lawyers? Committee for Civil Rights, Equal Justice Society, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and American Parole and Probation Association. Sarah A. Dunne and Nancy Talner, American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Foundation, Seattle, Washington, Peter A. Danelo, Seattle, Washington, Leonard J. Feldman, P.K. Runkles-Pearson and Daniel A. Swedlow, Stoel Rives LLP, Seattle, Washington, and Laughlin McDonald and Nancy G. Abudu, ACLU Voting Rights Project, Atlanta, Georgia, for amici curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Washington and American Civil Liberties Union. Lawrence S. Lustberg and Jennifer B. Condon, Gibbons P.C., Newark, New Jersey, for amici curiae National Black Police Association, National Latino Officers Association, American Probation and Parole Association and Six Former Law Enforcement Officials.

    Case Number: No. 06-35669

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 13034MUHAMMAD SHABAZZ FARRAKHAN, aka Ernest S. Walker; AL-KAREEM SHADEED; MARCUS X. PRICE; RAMON BARRIENTES; TIMOTHY SCHAAF; CLIFTON BRICENO

  • United States ex rel. Najmuddin Pervez, Plaintiff v. Beth Israel Medical Center, Defendants, 01 Civ. 2745 (LAK)

    Publication Date: 2010-09-23
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiff-Intervenor United States of America: Rebecca C. Martin, Assistant United States Attorney, Preet Bharara, United States Attorney Attorneys for Plaintiff-Relator: Philip R. Michael, Michael Law Group, P.C.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Defendant Ernst & Young, LLP: Richard A. Cirillo, Anne M. Cook, King & Spalding LLP *1

    Case Number: 01 Civ. 2745 (LAK)

    Cite as: Pervez v. Beth Israel Medical Center, LLP, 01 Civ. 2745 (LAK), NYLJ 1202472304614, at *1 (SDNY, Decided September 13, 2010)District Judge Lewis A. Kapl

  • Sunrise Check Cashing and Payroll Services, Inc., et al., Appellants v. Town of Hempstead, Respondent, 16676/08

    Publication Date: 2011-12-07
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    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department
    Judge: Before: Skelos, J.P., Dickerson, Hall, Sgroi, JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellants: Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo, Cohn & Terrana, LLP, Uniondale, N.Y. (William S. Cohn and Richard C. Goldberg of counsel).
    for defendant: For Respondent: Berkman, Henoch, Peterson, Peddy & Fenchel, P.C., Garden City, N.Y. (Peter Sullivan and Todd Steckler of counsel).

    Case Number: 16676/08

    Cite as: Sunrise Check Cashing & Payroll Servs., Inc. v. Town of Hempstead, 16676/08, NYLJ 1202534436644, at *1 (App. Div., 2nd, Decided November 29, 2011)B

  • March 17, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Decision of InterestJudge GerberJudge GerberDecision of InterestIn re Hampton Hotel Investors, L.P. -IntroductionThis adversary proceedin

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  • Brennan Center for Justice v. USDOJ, 11-4599

    Publication Date: 2012-09-21
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Calabresi, Sack, and Hall, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellee: Dorothy Heyl (Elizabeth M. Virga, on the brief) Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellants: Sharon Swingle (Benjamin H. Torrance, Sarah S. Normand, Beth S. Brinkmann, Michael S. Raab, on the brief), for Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY. Melanie Sloan, Anne L. Weismann, Adam J. Rappaport, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Washington, DC; David L. Sobel, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Washington, DC; Mark Rumold, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California, amici curiae.

    Case Number: 11-4599

    Cite as: Brennan Center for Justice v. USDOJ, 11-4599, NYLJ 1202572052330, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided September 19, 2012)Before: Calabresi, Sack, and Hall,

  • Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Neiman

    Publication Date: 2002-04-16
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    Date Filed: 2002-04-02
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: Flaum, Chief Judge, and Harlington Wood, Jr. and Williams, Circuit Judges
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    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. Flaum, Chief Judge. Following a benchtrial, the district court held thatDefendant-Appellant Orin S. Neimanopera

  • Matter of Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 401164/08

    Publication Date: 2009-05-28
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    Date Filed: 2009-05-12
    Court: Supreme Court, New York County
    Judge: Walter Tolub
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    Case Number: 401164/08

    Justice Walter B. Tolub NEW YORK COUNTY Supreme Court Attorney for the Plaintiff: Firm: Goldstein, Goldstein & Rikon Attorney for the Defe

  • April 23, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Want To Fix Redistricting? Reform Congress

    Excessive gerrymandering in congressional redistricting is, by most accounts, a big problem. Even in an era when Congress' approval rating barely cracks the low teens, recent history s

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