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  • Salameh v. Tarsadia Hotel

    Publication Date: 2013-08-13
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    Date Filed: 2013-08-13
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Dana M. Sabraw, District Judge, Presiding Before: Ronald M. Gould and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges, and Sharon L. Gleason, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Aguirre (argued), Christopher S. Morris, and Maria C. Severson, Aguirre, Morris & Severson LLP, San Diego, California, for Plaintiffs-Appellants. Frederick H. Kranz (argued) and Lynn T. Galuppo, Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP, Irvine, California; Jonathan S. Kitchen and Ali P. Hamidi, Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendants-Appellees Tarsadia Hotels, Tushar Patel, B.U. Patel, Gregory Casserly, 5th Rock, LLC, MKP One, LLC, and Gaslamp Holdings, LLC.
    for defendant: Daniel M. Benjamin (argued) and Thomas W. McNamara, Ballard Spahr LLP, San Diego, California, for Defendant-Appellee Playground Destination Properties, Inc. Mark D. Cahn, Jacob H. Stillman, Randall W. Quinn, William K. Shirey, Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Securities and Exchange Commission. Benjamin G. Shatz, Timi A. Hallem, and Jason T. Taketa, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae The Real Estate Roundtable and The National Association of Realtors.
    Case Number: No. 11-55479

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 8843 TAMER SALAMEH; REAL ESTATE 4 HOSPITALITY, LLC, a California limited liability company; ALEKSEY KATS; DIANA KATS; MITCHELL J.

  • People v. Western Express International Inc., No. 156

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: New York State Court of Appeals
    Judge: Opinion by Chief Judge Lippman. Judges Ciparick, Graffeo, Read, Smith and Jones concur. Judge Pigott dissents and votes to affirm in an opinion.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David M. Cohn, for respondent.
    for defendant: Jan Hoth, for appellant Latta. Submitted by Marianne Karas, for appellant Vassilenko. Allen Fallek, for appellant Roach. Matthew J. Galluzzo, for appellant Perez.
    Case Number: No. 156

    Cite as: People v. Western Express International Inc., No. 156, NYLJ 1202575459447, at *1 (Ct. of App., Decided October 18, 2012)Opinion by Chief Judge Li

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    DoubleClick Lets Users Opt Out of Data Collection, Names Privacy Officer

    Under attack for collecting information on Internet users, DoubleClick said last week it had hired New York City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner Jules Polonetsky as its Chief Privacy Officer, a ne

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  • March 25, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Wyeth Fights Class Status for Prempro Drug Suit in Miami

    Pharmaceutical giant Wyeth Inc. is appealing a Miami-Dade County Circuit Court judge's decision to grant class action status to a product liability lawsuit seeking medical monitoring for 300,0

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  • March 26, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

    Litigator of the Week: Beating the FTC

    On March 12 Robert Wise celebrated a hard-earned win in a civil suit brought by the government. That's the day U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey of the Northern District of Texas in Dallas

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  • June 2, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Judge: Bloggers Entitled to Immunity Under Communications Act

    Bloggers cannot be hit with libel suits on the basis of anonymous postings on their Web sites because federal law grants them immunity by explicitly stating that they cannot be treated as the "publ

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  • January 26, 2005 | Daily Business Review

    Former Patient's Online Complaints Draw Slander Suit

    In a case testing First Amendment rights in the Internet age, a dentist and an oral surgeon have filed suit in a Florida trial court to stop a disgruntled former patient from criticizing their

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  • February 1, 2007 |

    IP's Brave New World

    In December, Judge Richard Posner of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals attended a conference sponsored by Creative Commons, the nonprofit alternative copyright foundation, to promote his new bo

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  • March 30, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Web Hotel Bookings Prompt City Tax Suit

    The city of Atlanta is suing 18 discount online travel companies -- including Hotels.com, Expedia Inc., Orbitz and Travelocity.com -- claiming that they could owe the city millions of dollars in un

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