• November 13, 2006 | E-commerce Law & Strategy

    Betting on Litigation

    Lawyers today seem to be the favorite butt of jokes. Perhaps the only thing businesspeople like less than lawyers is the ordeal of going to court. Certainly, the perception among many is that Ameri

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  • September 25, 2000 | Alm

    Deceased Man's Estate Must Pay Disowned Child

    A Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that allows a disinherited child's court-ordered support payments to continue after her father's death may be a boon to children's rights or a blo

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  • June 15, 2001 | Daily Business Review

    Southeast Bank's Former Officers and Directors Settle with Creditors

    With a $21 million settlement between former officers and directors of Southeast Bank and creditors now agreed upon, only two lawsuits remain against the former $10 billion Miami-based financi

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  • October 6, 2005 | Daily Report Online

    Creditors Line Up to Get to Delta's Cash

    Creditors from around the world will be scavenging for Delta Air Lines' money this afternoon inside the Alexander Hamilton Custom House in New York.Pilots, both active and retired, wan

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  • September 26, 2001 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Daily Decision Alert: Vol. 9, No. 184 -- September 26, 2001

    STATE COURT CASESCONTRACTS -- LICENSE AGREEMENTS 11-2-8226 Wildwood's Market Place, L.L.C., etc. v. Scott, etc. v. Weiner, et al., App. Div. (per curiam) (4 pp.) Defendant ente

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  • Securities and Exchange Commission v. Federal Labor Relations Authority

    Publication Date: 2009-06-17
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    Date Filed: 2009-06-12
    Court: DC Cir.
    Judge: Brown, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 08-1256 Consolidated with 08-1294

    Argued May 5, 2009Before: GINSBURG, BROWN and KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judges.Concurring opinion filed by Circuit Judge KAVANAUGH.This is the sort of dispute that could only arise between public em

  • November 15, 2002 | The Recorder

    The Judicial Council Stretches Out

    On July 1, the Judicial Council, in issuing its "Ethics Standard for Arbitrators in Contractual Arbitration," set about revolutionizing arbitration of contract disputes in California. Much controve

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  • Waste Management of Texas Inc. v. Abbott

    Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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    Date Filed: 2013-04-11
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 11
    Judge: Terry McCALL Justice
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    Case Number: 11-11-00112-CV

    In The Eleventh Court of AppealsOPINIONKurt E. Johnson made an open records request to Williamson County for certain waste tickets related to the operation of the Williamson Cou

  • March 4, 2009 | Bloomberg

    GE's Immelt accepts blame for eroded trust

    General Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt, two weeks after turning down $11.7 million in bonus pay, took responsibility for eroded investor trust and said he will work to re

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  • In Re: Chesses

    Publication Date: 2012-06-04
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    Date Filed: 2012-05-30
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 8
    Judge: Ann Crawford McCLURE, Chief Justice
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    Case Number: 08-11-00285-CV

    AN ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN MANDAMUS OPINION This is a discovery dispute amidst a will contest. Relators Pauline Chesses and Sun Chesses-Szabos filed a petition for writ of mandam