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  • November 15, 2012 | The Associated Press

    BP to pay $4.5 billion in oil spill settlement

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) -  BP said Thursday that it will pay $4.5 billion in a settlement with the U.S. government over the massive 2010 oil spill and will plead guilty to felony counts re

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  • September 14, 2012 | Daily Report Online

    Slover, four others start new plaintiffs firm

    Jack Slover Jr. is leaving defense firm Hall Booth Smith & Slover to start a plaintiffs firm with another Hall Booth partner, Jonathan Marigliano, and three plaintiffs lawyers. Michael Pr

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  • July 23, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    GC Leads Legal Department Through Merger With Cisco

    Michael C. Veysey, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Scientific Atlanta, greeted visitors to his office on a rainy afternoon last week by showing them a stick -- a f

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  • Thorogood v. Sears, Roebuck and Co.

    Publication Date: 2008-10-31
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    Date Filed: 2008-10-28
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: Posner, Circuit Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 08-1590

    ARGUED SEPTEMBER 15, 2008Before POSNER, KANNE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.The plaintiff, a Tennessean, bought a Kenmore-brand clothes dryer from Sears Roebuck (Kenmore is a Sears brand name). The

  • October 27, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    The Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine and the BP Oil Spill

    From April 20 until Aug. 29, about 185 million gallons of oil spilled from BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig into the Gulf of Mexico. The spill, nearly 20 times more severe than the Exxon Valdez, was

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  • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Rappaport, Hertz, Cherson Rosenthal PC, CV 05-3928

    Publication Date: 2006-09-22
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    Date Filed: 2006-09-16
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
    Judge: Arthur Spatt
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    Case Number: CV 05-3928

    U.S. DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK For Plaintiff: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Estela Diaz, Esq., Lisa Sirkin, Esq., Michelle A. Caio

  • March 7, 2003 | The Recorder

    Punitive Measures

    Brent Ferguson and Florencia Prieto were dumbfounded in 1997 when the class counsel in their suit against Unocal Corp. chose not to seek punitive damages in order to cement an $80 million glob

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  • March 12, 2012 | Law.com

    'Do Not Track' -- Online Privacy Litigation Now and in the Future

    Over the last several years, attorneys for Internet users have been vigorously attempting to fashion a viable claim against Internet service providers, companies operating websites, app

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  • Villacres v. ABM Industries Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-10-25
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    Date Filed: 2010-10-22
    Court: C.A. 2nd
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Initiative Legal Group, Marc Primo, Sharla Ann Manley, Dina S. Livhits, Orlando Arellano and Glenn A. Danas for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Littler Mendelson, Keith A. Jacoby, Dominic J. Messiha and Heather M. Davis for Defendants and Respondents.
    Case Number: No. B219584

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 13534CARLOS VILLACRES, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ABM INDUSTRIES INC. et al., Defendants a

  • September 20, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Unpublished Opinions

    STATE COURT CASES ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - HANDGUN PERMITS 01-2-8500 In Matter of Appeal of . . . Gunther, App. Div. (per curiam) (10 pp.) The appellate court affirms the or

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