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May 15, 2012 | Litigation Daily

Apple, Publishers Lose Bid to Dismiss eBooks Class Action

Kindle, iPad, Nook, or plain old paper. No matter how they read it, it's a sure bet that co-lead plaintiffs counsel at Hagens Berman Sobol & Shapiro and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll

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February 27, 2004 | Legal Times

More Firms Using PACs for Congressional Access

WASHINGTON -- When Elliott Portnoy joined Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in 2002 to build the firm's new federal lobbying practice, he believed that a major component of his success would b

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December 11, 2001 | Texas Lawyer

A Giant Falls

Whether Houston lawyers are successful in efforts to move Enron Corp.'s bankruptcy from New York to Houston, the record-setting filing for the company that once employed 7,000 in Houston means

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Welch v. United States

Publication Date: 2011-01-01
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Date Filed: 2010-05-04
Court: 7th Cir.
Judge: Ripple, Circuit Judge.
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Case Number: 08-3108

ARGUED DECEMBER 4, 2009Before POSNER, RIPPLE and WOOD, Circuit Judges.In 2005, Devin Welch pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. He then brought a motion under 28 U.S.C.

Transport Workers Union of America Local 100 AFL-CIO v Schwartz

Publication Date: 2005-04-19
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By Andrias, J.P., Sullivan, Williams, Gonzalez, Catterson, JJ 5716. Transport Workers Union of America Local 100 AFL-CIO Plaintiffs-Appellants-res, v. Alan G. Schwar

January 28, 2013 | Litigation Daily

Judge Shoots Down Antitrust Suit Against 'Defensive Patent Aggregator' RPX

Cascades Ventures Inc.--a descendant of the "original patent troll"--may have reached the end of its campaign against the self-described troll-fighter RPX Corporation and a quintet of

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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

Hanson v. Wyatt

Publication Date: 2008-09-12
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Date Filed: 2008-09-10
Court: 10th Cir.
Judge: Hartz, Circuit Judge
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Case Number: Nos. 06-6136 & 06-6204

PUBLISHBefore BRISCOE, HARTZ, and GORSUCH, Circuit Judges.Colonel Eric A. Hanson, who had been removed from the Oklahoma Army National Guard, filed suit against Major General Harry M. Wyatt III

March 18, 2002 | The Recorder

9th Circuit Knocks Feds, Awards Fees

For the second time in little more than a month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has knocked the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco for being overly zealous in court.I

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PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT,

Publication Date: 2002-10-01
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Case Number: KA 01-00650

EDWARD J. NOWAK, PUBLIC DEFENDER, ROCHESTER (ELIZABETH CLARKE OF COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT. HOWARD R. RELIN, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, ROCHESTER (AMY I. MOLLOY OF COUNSEL), FOR PLAINTIFF