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  • In Re: Pfizer Inc. Shareholder Derivative Litigation, 09 Civ. 7822

    Publication Date: 2010-07-20
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Jed S. Rakoff
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ira M. Press, David E. Kovel, Edward Michael Varga, Kirby McInerney LLP, Gerald Harlan Silk, Jeroen Van Kwawegen, Mark Lebovitch, Noam Noah Nandel, Beata Gocyk-Farber, David Lloyd Wales, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, Curtis Victor Trinko, Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, LLP, New York, NY, Brett Stecker, Robert Weiser, the Weiser Law Firm, P.C., Wayne, PA, David Avi Rosenfeld, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Melville, NY, for Plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Dennis J. Block, Gregory Arthur Markel, Jason Michael Halper, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, James P. Rouhandeh, Robert B. Fiske, Jr., Ross Bradley Galin, Davis Polk & Wardwell L.L.P., New York, NY, for Defendants.
    Case Number: 09 Civ. 7822

    District Judge Jed S. RakoffDecided: July 13, 2010Ira M. Press, David E. Kovel, Edward Michael Varga, Kirby McInerney LLP, Ger

  • April 25, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Judge Plans to Appeal Censure to High Court Supreme Court Justice Duane A. Hart (See Profile)

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  • February 9, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Class-certification 'Daubert' inquiries: Half a loaf better than a whole?

    The brief discussion in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Dukes, 131 S. Ct. 2541, 2554 (2011), about challenging the admissibility of expert testimony under Federal Rule of Evidence 702

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  • March 7, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Partial Lockouts

    The National Labor Relations Board recently issued a pair of decisions that clarified the legal status of partial lockouts. Specifically, the board held in Midwest Generation, 343

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  • May 15, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Supreme Court blocks part of 'tort reform' law

    THE STATE Supreme Court has knocked another brick out of the General Assembly's wall erected to stop certain medical malpractice suits. On Monday, the justices invalidated a state law

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  • Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. v. Marvel Enterprises, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-01-15
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    Date Filed: 2002-01-14
    Court: 2nd Cir.
    Judge: Jon O. Newman, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 01-7983

    Argued: October 10, 2001Appeal from the August 13, 2001, order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Allen G. Schwartz, District Judge), denying a motion for a

  • November 10, 2006 | Legal Times

    Report Shows Firms' Railroad Ties

    WASHINGTON � Forgoing fancy dinners and large billable rates, and keeping fastidious records, are all part and parcel of doing legal work for the federal government.But, at least for t

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  • October 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Clouds Lingering Over IPOs

    UPDATE: 10/4/10, 10:10 a.m. Underwriters counsel for the offering by Boshiwa International have been added to the last paragraph of this post. When Liberty Mutual u

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  • January 5, 2004 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible: Ephedra Ban; Bonus Bonanza; and More

    EPA'S EPHEDRA BAN MAY BE A PRESCRIPTION FOR LITIGATION Instead of worrying, dietary supplement industry lawyers say, their clients might actually breathe a sigh of relief

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  • June 5, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Absolute Immunity for U-5 Statements

    In Rosenberg v. MetLife, Inc.,1 the New York Court of Appeals recently held that an abso

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