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  • September 28, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Hot Spot

    Change has been the only constant at the South African corporate firm Bowman Gilfillan since apartheid ended in 1994. Ten years ago, says the firm's corporate head, Ezra Davids,

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  • November 29, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

    Case Summaries

    Editor's note: What follows are summaries of state and federal appellate court opinions issued from Nov. 10 through Nov. 18. The list is organized by court and practice area. The names of

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  • June 17, 2010 | The Associated Press

    BP Says It's Sorry -- and Guarantees $20 Billion for Gulf

    President Barack Obama wrested a $20 billion compensation guarantee and an apology to the nation from British oil giant BP Wednesday, announcing the company would set up a major claims fund for shr

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  • Belhumeur v. Labor Relations Commission

    Publication Date: 2000-09-29
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    Date Filed: 2000-09-21
    Court: Mass. Ct. App.
    Judge: MARSHALL, C.J., ABRAMS, GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, & COWIN, JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce N. Cameron
    for defendant: John B. Cochran
    Case Number: No. 08163

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. IRELAND, J. James J. Belhumeur and 118 other public school teachers throughout the Commonwealth[FOOTNOTE

  • 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
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    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