• February 22, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Killing Terrorists Without Trials

    I am bearing witness as we abandon one of our most basic principles. At the confirmation hearings for CIA Director John Brennan earlier this month, several senators broached the idea of creat

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  • Gonzalez-Gonzalez v. United State

    Publication Date: 2001-07-24
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    Date Filed: 2001-07-23
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Selya, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 00-1564

    APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO [Hon. Juan M. P�rez-Gim�nez, U.S. District Judge]Challenging the constitutional sufficiency of the process employed by t

  • People v Drake

    Publication Date: 2007-03-08
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    Case Number: 16542

    Decided and Entered: March 8, 2007 16542 ________________________________ THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v

  • March 2, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Approved Opinions

    STATE COURT CASES   CONSTITUTIONAL LAW — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS 10-1-5375 Durando v. The Nutley Sun, Sup. Ct. (Albi

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  • September 1, 1999 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Judge's Four-Word Phrase Forces New Trial

    Four extra words in a judge's jury instructions require a new trial in a student-on-student sexual harassment case, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, because they put too heavy a burden

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  • Psihoyos v. The National Geographic Society

    Publication Date: 2005-08-16
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    U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Judge Berman I. Introduction Louis Psihoyos ("Plaintiff" or "Psihoyos") brings this action against The Nati

  • February 22, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

    Countrywide in Crosshairs as Mortgage Crisis Fuels Litigation

    Sandor Samuels has, quite possibly, the least enviable in-house legal job right now in corporate America. As general counsel and litigation chief of embattled mortgage lender Countrywide Fina

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  • Plona v. United Parcel Service, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-03-10
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    Date Filed: 2009-03-06
    Court: 6th Cir.
    Judge: Ronald Lee Gilman, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 08-3512

    RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206Argued: January 14, 2009Before: SUHRHEINRICH, GILMAN, and WHITE, Circuit Judges.OPINIONGary Plona was fired from his

  • September 29, 2008 |

    Beryllium Suit Hangs by Thread After Judge Nixes Claims

    A federal judge has all but dismissed a proposed class action medical monitoring suit brought by residents of Reading, Pa., who claim they were exposed to toxic levels of beryllium because they liv

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  • December 8, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    As Threatened, Advocacy Group's Ranking of LGBT-Friendly Employers Slaps Foley

    The Human Rights Campaign-the country's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender advocacy group-released its 2012 Corporate Equality Index on Thursday, and dozens of law firms earned t

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