• Linares v. Jackson, 06-CV-876

    Publication Date: 2008-01-09
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    Date Filed: 2008-01-03
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District
    Judge: Frederic Block
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 06-CV-876

    District Judge Frederic Block U.S. DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Appearances For the Plaintiffs: Michael L. Weisberg, Esq. South Brookl

  • Stair v. Turtzo, Spry, Sbrocchi, Faul & Labarre

    Publication Date: 2001-03-29
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    Date Filed: 2001-03-26
    Court: Pa. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Mr. Justice Saylor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 42 M.D. App. Dkt

    [J-172-00]Argued: December 5, 2000OPINIONThis appeal concerns the entitlement of a law firm to retain attorneys' fees awarded pursuant to the fee-shifting provisions reposited in Title VII of

  • November 10, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Will Record Amounts for Wireless Patents Help Win Smartphone Wars?

    Call it a high-tech arms race: Smartphone companies are spending billions of dollars to stockpile their wireless patent arsenals. In July, Google was locked in a contentious battle with a consortiu

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  • April 20, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Great Expectations for the Forthcoming FCPA Guidance

    Last November, Lanny Breuer, the assistant attorney general for the criminal division at the U.S. Department of Justice, promised to provide detailed new guidance on the Foreign Corrupt Pract

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  • June 1, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Twitter GC Joins British Debate Over Free Speech

    It's an unlikely way to begin a legal debate that may point the way toward global free speech rights on the Internet. But a British athlete's sexual affair has triggered it, and caught in the middl

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  • October 17, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    People In The News

    SPEAKERSBlank Rome associates Dale R. Dube, Dennis P. McCooe and David M. Perry were faculty members at Sterling Education Services' seminar titled

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  • 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="

  • September 26, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    In The Trenches: A&B nabs structured finance team in Charlotte

    ALSTON & BIRD HAS swiped a 13-attorney structured finance practice in Charlotte, N.C., from the headquarters of local firm Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman. The group handles comme

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  • January 19, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Law schools try to keep up with profession

    The picture was meant to jolt the assembled crowd of legal educators. It showed the four members of Swedish supergroup ABBA, clad in their signature 1970s pop star regalia: tall platform boot

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  • A.V. v. iParadigms, LLC

    Publication Date: 2009-04-22
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    Date Filed: 2009-04-16
    Court: 4th Cir.
    Judge: Traxler, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for appellants-cross-appellees: Robert Arthur Vanderhye, McLean, Va.
    for defendant: Attorney for appellee-cross-appellant: James Rittinger, Satterlee, Stephens, Burke and Burke, New York.

    Case Number: Nos. 08-1424 & 08-1480

    PUBLISHEDArgued: December 4, 2008Before WILKINSON, MOTZ, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge Traxler wrote the opinion, in