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  • December 17, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Circuit Clarifies Involuntary Confinement Standard

    The U.S. Supreme Court's requirement that civil commitment candidates must show they have a mental condition that makes it difficult to control their dangerous behavior applies to insanity acquitee

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  • October 9, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Judicial Biographies — Vicinage 6 — Hudson

    Baber, Mark A. Current Assignment: Civil Appointed: 1989 Tenure: 1996 Born: Dec. 4, 1953 Ed

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  • May 11, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Discovery Savings

    In today's litigation world, corporate counsel struggle to contain the ever-increasing costs of document discovery. The explosion of electronically stored information is often a huge contribut

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  • October 4, 1999 | The Recorder

    Growing Ventures

    Two career mortgage lenders walked into Hazim Ansari's Newport Beach office at O'Melveny & Myers six months ago with a veteran Internet technologist and a plan to go online. Despite ha

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  • November 12, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Ex-UGA employee awarded $1.3 million

    A federal jury has awarded a former project director for the University of Georgia almost $1.3 million for her claims that her former boss falsely accused her of stealing state-owned equipmen

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  • May 2, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Professional Responsibility

    Managing the client intake process is an important component of law firm success, and failure to oversee the process carries very significant risks. This article examines two cases tha

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  • January 23, 2012 | Daily Report Online

    Court hopefuls line up for Gwinnett seat

    Four of the announced candidates for the seat of retiring Gwinnett County State Court Judge Robert W. Mock Sr. will be making their first bids for elected office. But a fifth hopeful is a jud

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  • June 3, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    In The Trenches: Click & Null is null and void, as all but Click go to Carlton Fields

    After six years in a small boutique, commercial real estate attorney Clyde E. Click is back to a solo practice. His three partners at Click & Null-W. Gregory Null, Michael R. Tippe

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  • Law Offices of Matthew Higbee v. Expungement Assistance Services

    Publication Date: 2013-03-14
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    Date Filed: 2013-03-14
    Court: C.A. 4th
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Offices of Mathew Higbee and Mathew K. Higbee for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Carothers DiSante & Freudenberger, Jeffrey L. Sikkema and David G. Hagopian for Defendant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. G046778

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 2810LAW OFFICES OF MATHEW HIGBEE, Plaintiff and Appellant,v.EXPUNGEMENT ASSIST

  • Disability Advocates, Inc. v. New York Coalition for Quality Assisted Living, Inc., 10-235(L)

    Publication Date: 2012-04-10
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Cabranes and Parker, C.JJ., and Korman, D.J. **
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellee Disability Advocates, Inc: Andrew G. Gordon (Julie E. Fink, Geoffrey Chepiga, Elizabeth Seidlin-Bernstein, Lindsey Weinstock, and Francine Murray, on the brief), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Cliff Zucker (Timothy A. Clune, on the brief) Disability Advocates, Inc., Albany, NY; Ira A. Burnim, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Washington, DC; Mara A. Kuns, Urban Justice Center, New York, NY; Roger Bearden (Aditi Koethekar, on the brief), New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, New York, NY; and Jeannette Zelhof (Jota Borgmann, on the brief), MFY Legal Services, Inc., New York, NY. For Plaintiff-Appellee United States of America: Samuel R. Bagenstos, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General (Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General, Jessica Dunsay Silver and Terese Kwon, Attorneys, on the brief), Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC. For amici curiae States of Connecticut, Arkansas, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming, in support of New York State Appellants: Hugh Barber, Assistant Attorney General of Connecticut (on behalf of Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General of Connecticut, Dustin McDaniel, Attorney General of Arkansas, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General of Tennessee, Mark L. Shurtleff, Attorney General of Utah, Bruce A. Salzbury, Attorney General of Wyoming), Hartford, CT. For amici curiae Americare Certified Special Services, Inc. et al., in support of Appellants: Christopher Murray (Matthew F. Didora, on the brief), Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, PC, Uniondale, NY. For Movant Empire State Association of Assisted Living, in support of Appellants: David T. Luntz (Lori A. Sievers, on the brief), Hinman Straub, PC, Albany, NY. For amicus curiae Families of Current Adult Home Residents, in support of Appellants: Jordan W. Siev (Christopher A. Lynch, Cameron G. Van Tassell and David J. De Jesus, on the brief), Reed Smith LLP, New York, NY. For amici curiae American Association of Community Psychiatrists et al., in support of Appellees: Carla Christofferson (Justine M Daniels and Christopher A. Adams, on the brief), O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA. For amici curiae Dick Thornburgh (former United States Attorney General) and 30 former state mental health commissioners, in support of Appellees: Steven J. Schwartz (Mollie Richardson, on the brief), Center for Public Representation, Northampton, MA; and Robert J. Alessi (Gregory G. Nickson and Jeffrey D. Kuhn, on the brief), Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, Albany, NY. For amici curiae C.C. et al. (current and former residents of Adult Homes), in support of Appellees: Elizabeth B. McCallum, Howrey LLP, Washington, DC. For amici curiae The National Disability Rights Network et al., in support of Appellee Disability Advocates: Antony L. Ryan (Rebecca R. Silber and Alejandro H. Cruz), Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY. For amici curiae The Coalition of Institutionalized Aged and Disabled et al., in support of Appellees: Peter K. Vigeland (Michael Bongiorno, David F. Olsky, Omar Kahn, Natalie Rastin, Leizel A. Ching, on the brief), Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Movant-Appellant New York State Coalition for Quality Assisted Living: Patricia A. Millett (Steven M. Pesner, Robert H. Pees, James P. Chou, and Christopher M. Egleson, on the brief), Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington DC. For New York State Defendants-Appellants: Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General of the State of New York (Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, Benjamin Gutman, Deputy Solicitor General, Cecilia C. Chang, Laura R. Johnson, Steven C. Wu, Assistant Solicitors General, on the brief), New York, NY.
    Case Number: 10-235(L)

    Cite as: Disability Advocates, Inc. v. New York Coalition for Quality Assisted Living, Inc., 10-235(L), NYLJ 1202548402238, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided April 6, 2012)p class="