• May 15, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Kilpatrick advises on $75M SPAC deal

    SPACs have come a long way. Once a backwater of the M&A world, special-purpose acquisition company deals are increasingly popular, and SPAC deal values can reach into the hundreds of mill

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  • January 12, 2010 | Daily Report Online

    Justices hear 'explosive' debate

    Continuing their struggle with how much protection school employees should have from lawsuits, justices Supreme Court of Georgia on Monday engaged in a lively debate over the meaning

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  • California Correctional Peace Officers Association v. Schwarzenegger

    Publication Date: 2008-06-04
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    Date Filed: 2008-06-04
    Court: C.A. 3rd
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul E. Harris III and Anne M. Giese for Plaintiff and Respondent Service Employees International Union, Local 1000.
    for defendant: Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor, Steven A. Merksamer, Richard D. Martland and Kurt R. Oneto for George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson and Gray Davis as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

    Case Number: C055327

    Cite as 08 C.D.O.S. 6779CALIFORNIA CORRECTIONAL PEACE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents,v.ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, as Governor, etc., et al., Defendants an

  • February 26, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Corridor Valuation in Railroad Land Condemnation

    If one looks at the early cases involving eminent domain, a significant number of them involved railroads exercising that right, such as in the landmark cases of South Buffalo Ry. v. Kirk

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  • Enron Corp. v. Citigroup Inc., 07 Civ. 10612

    Publication Date: 2008-03-28
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    Date Filed: 2008-03-17
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
    Judge: Gerard Lynch
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    Case Number: 07 Civ. 10612

    District Judge Gerard E. Lynch U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK David M. Stern, Klee Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, Los Angeles, CA, William J. McS

  • Stores v. Lincks, 13 Civ. 1876

    Publication Date: 2013-10-10
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Shira Scheindlin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff: John E. Kiley, Esq., Kevin J. Smith, Esq., Kelley Drye & Warren, LLP, New York, NY. Ryan M. Duffy, Esq., Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant: Michael A. Orozco, Esq., Bailey & Orozco, L.L.C., Newark, NJ.

    Case Number: 13 Civ. 1876

    Cite as: Ross Stores v. Lincks, 13 Civ. 1876, NYLJ 1202622587818, at *1 (SDNY, Decided October 4, 2013) 13 Civ. 1876 District Judge Shira Sche

  • April 12, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    The Hidden Opportunities of Boilerplate

    Boilerplate is boring. These provisions make it into commercial contracts by the skin of their teeth; they are allocated the worst real estate within the document, at the very end. And for good rea

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  • March 26, 2002 | Special To Law.Com

    Miserable Means to Enigmatic Ends

    My whole life I've eavesdropped on conversations. It's not hard to do -- I can even do it among Spanish-speakers. I'm very disarming that way. Who would suspect?And so it was tha

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  • April 13, 2005 | National Law Journal

    SOX Inspires Backlash

    Hundreds of publicly traded companies finished their first, do-or-die year complying with tough new accounting and public disclosure requirements under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

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  • Las Palmas Medical Center v. Moore

    Publication Date: 2010-10-08
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    Date Filed: 2010-10-06
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 8
    Judge: Ann Crawford McCLURE, Justice
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    Case Number: 08-09-00226-CV

    OPINIONLas Palmas Medical Center appeals an order denying its motion to confirm an arbitration award, vacating the arbitration award, and ordering a new arbitration proceeding. For the reasons t