• November 2, 1999 | The Recorder

    Artists vs. Landlords

    Overnight on July 25, 1998, the "Lilli Ann" mural, a fixture in the Mission District for more than a decade, simply vanished. The four-story painting, which had towered over the corner of 17th and

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  • November 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Why Heller Died

    When Heller Ehrman partners gathered at Santa Barbara, California's Bacara Resort & Spa in March 2007, there was already reason to be c

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  • Alameda County Flood Control, etc. v. Department Of Water Resources

    Publication Date: 2013-02-19
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    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2013-02-15
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, John S. Poulos, Amy L. Pierce, Darcy L. Muilenburg; Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Greg L. Johnson; Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard and Edward J. Tiedemann, for Plaintiffs and Appellants Alameda County Flood Control & Water Conservation District Zone 7, Alameda County Water District, City of Yuba City, County of Butte, County of Kings, Empire West Side Irrigation District, Kern County Water Agency, Napa County Flood Control & Water Conservation District, Oak Flat Water District, Plumas County Flood Control & Water Conservation District, Santa Clara Valley Water District, Solano County Water Agency, and Tulare Lake Basin Water Storage District. Amelia T. Minaberrigarai, for Plaintiff and Appellant Kern County Water Agency.
    for defendant: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General of California, Denise Ferkich Hoffman, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Matthew J. Goldman and Vera Sandronsky, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Respondent, State of California, Department of Water Resources. Bingham McCutchen LLP, James J. Dragna, Colin C. West and Thomas S. Hixson, for Defendants, Interveners and Appellants Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency, Castaic Lake Water Agency, Central Coast Water Authority, Coachella Valley Water District, Crestline-Lake Arrowhead Water Agency, Desert Water Agency, Littlerock Creek Irrigation District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Mojave Water Agency, Palmdale Water District, San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District, San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District, San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency, and United Water Conservation District. Best Best & Krieger LLP and Robert M. Sawyer, for Defendant, Intervener and Appellant, Ventura County Watershed Protection District. Marcia L. Scully, John Schlotterbeck, Heather C. Beatty and Karen L. Tachiki for Defendant, Intervener and Appellant, The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

    Case Number: No. C065522

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 1904ALAMEDA COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL, ETC. et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants,v.DEPARTMENT

  • Gray v. Citigroup, Inc., 09-3804-cv

    Publication Date: 2011-10-21
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Walker, Cabranes, and Straub, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants: Marc I. Machiz, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Philadelphia, PA (Robert I. Harwood, Samuel K. Rosen, Tanya Korkhov, Harwood Feffer LLP, New York, NY; Marian P. Rosner, Andrew E. Lencyk, James Kelly-Kowlowitz, Wolf Popper LLP, New York, NY, on the brief).
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees: Lewis Richard Clayton, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY (Brad S. Karp, Susanna Michele Buergel, Douglas M. Pravda, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Lawrence B. Pedowitz, Jonathan M. Moses, John F. Lynch, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY, on the brief).

    Case Number: 09-3804-cv

    Cite as: Gray v. Citigroup, Inc., 09-3804-cv, NYLJ 1202519590610, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided October 19, 2011)Before: Walker, Cabranes, and Straub, C.JJ

  • September 26, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Attorney Ineligibility Order Pursuant to Rule 1:28-2(a)

    SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEY Pursuant to Rule 1:28-2, the Trustees of the New Jersey Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection (Fund) have reported to the Supreme Court the names of those attorneys

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  • October 18, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Assured Guaranty Hits Credit Suisse with Mortgage-Backed Securities Suit, Claims $1.8 Billion in Loans Were Defective

    The lawsuits that the country's monoline insurers have filed against big banks since the subprime meltdown tend to have a lot in common. The suits allege that the defendants breached their contra

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  • February 14, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    New Administrative Judge for Brooklyn Criminal Term Supreme Court Justice L. Priscilla Hall (See P

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  • July 1, 2009 | Focus Europe

    Playing 3-D Chess

    To describe international arbitration as three-dimensional chess is something of an understatement. Take the fight over Poland’s top mobile operator among Vivendi, Elektrim SA, and Deutsche

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  • September 10, 2001 | Daily Business Review

    Florida's Employee Pension System Gets Tough on Investor Fraud

    Florida's public employee pension system, overseen by pro-tort reform Republicans, has become the most litigious institutional investor in the country.The Florida State Board of Admini

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  • November 5, 1999 | The American Lawyer

    Gimme Shelter

    The tax implications of "accelerated charitable remainder trusts" might seem as exciting as a pot of drying glue. But when Carlyn McCaffrey, a partner in New York's Weil, Gotshal & Manges, bega

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