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April 1, 2008 | New York Law Journal

In Re: World Trade Center Disaster Site Litigation

Decided March 26, 2008Before Newman, Sotomayor, and Wesley, C. JJ.Interlocutory appeal from an order of the Southern District of New York (Hellerstein, J.), entered on October 18,

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State of California v. Safeway, Inc.

Publication Date: 2010-08-17
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Date Filed: 2010-08-17
Court: 9th Cir.
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Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General for the State of California; Kathleen E. Foote, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Barbara M. Motz, Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Cheryl L. Johnson, Deputy Attorney General, and Jonathan M. Eisenberg, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiff-appellants-cross-appellees. Alan B. Clark, Peter K. Huston, Los Angeles, California, and Jeremy P. Sherman, Chicago, Illinois, for respondent-appellees-cross-appellants Safeway Inc. and the Vons Companies, Inc.
for defendant: Jeffrey A. LeVee, Craig E. Stewart, and Kate Wallace, Los Angeles, California, for respondent-appellee-cross-appellant Albertson?s, Inc. Robert B. Pringle, San Francisco, California, for respondent-appellees-cross-appellants Ralphs Grocery Company and Food 4 Less Food Company. Robin S. Conrad, Shane B. Kawka, Washington, District of Columbia, for amicus curiae Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Charles I. Cohen, Jonathan C. Fritts and David R. Broderdorf, Washington, District of Columbia, for amici curiae Chamber of Commerce of the United States and Council on Labor Law Equality. Jeffrey A. Berman, Los Angeles, California, for amicus curiae Employers Group. Robert M. McKenna, Attorney General of Washington; and Mark O. Brevard, Assistant Attorney General, Seattle, Washington; and Nancy H. Rogers, Attorney General of Ohio; and Jennifer L. Pratt, Chief, Antitrust Section, Columbus, Ohio for amici curiae Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia. Nicholas W. Clark, Washington, District of Columbia, for amicus curiae United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Michael D. Four, Los Angeles, California, for amici curiae UFCW Local Unions 135, 324, 770, 1036, 1167, 1428 and 1442. Andrew D. Roth, Washington, District of Columbia, for amici curiae United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, UFCW Local Unions 135, 324, 770, 1036, 1167, 1428 and 1442, Change to Win and AFL-CIO. Patrick J. Szymanski, Washington, District of Columbia, for amicus curiae Change to Win. Jonathan P. Hiatt, Washington, District of Columbia, for amicus curiae AFL-CIO.
Case Number: No. 08-55671 No. 08-55708

Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 10633STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ex rel. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v.SAFEWAY, INC.

July 7, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Arar, plaintiff-appellant v. Ashcroft, defendants-appellees

Decided June 30, 2008 Before McLaughlin, Cabranes, and Sack, C.JJ. Plaintiff, a dual citizen of Syria and Canada, who alleges that he was mistreated by U.S. officials

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Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.

Publication Date: 2010-09-09
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Date Filed: 2010-09-08
Court: 9th Cir.
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Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven M. Watt, Ben Wizner (argued), Jameel Jaffer and Steven R. Shapiro, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York; Ann Brick and Julia Harumi Mass, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, San Francisco, California; Paul Hoffman, Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman LLP, Venice, California; Hope Metcalf, National Litigation Project, Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Clive Stafford-Smith and Zachary KatzNelson, Reprieve, London, England, for plaintiff-appellant Binyam Mohamed. Margaret L. Satterthwaite and Amna Akbar, International Human Rights Clinic, Washington Square Legal Services, Inc., New York, New York, for plaintiff-appellant Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah.
for defendant: Daniel P. Collins (argued), Paul J. Watford, Mark R. Yohalem and Henry Weissmann, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. Ian Heath Gershengorn, Michael F. Hertz, Joseph P. Russoniello, Douglas N. Letter (argued), Sharon Swingle and Michael P. Abate, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for intervenor-appellee United States of America. Gary Bostwick and Jean-Paul Jassy, Bostwick & Jassy LLP, Los Angeles, California, for amici curiae Professors William G. Weaver and Robert M. Pallitto. Barbara Moses and David J. Stankiewicz, Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C., New York, New York; Aziz Huq and Jonathan Hafetz, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, New York, New York, for amici curiae former United States diplomats. Wiliam J. Aceves, California Western School of Law, San Diego, California; Gerald Staberock and Carlos Lopez, International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland; Carla Ferstman, Lorna McGregor and Lucy Moxham, REDRESS, London, United Kingdom; Denna R. Hurwitz, Human Rights Program, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, for amici curiae REDRESS and the International Commission of Jurists. Stephen I. Vladeck, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.; Natalie L. Bridgeman, Law Offices of Natalie L. Bridgeman, San Francisco, California, for amici curiae professors of constitutional law, federal jurisdiction and foreign relations law. Andrew G. McBride, Thomas R. McCarthy and Stephen J. Obermeier, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Daniel J. Popeo and Richard A. Samp, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae Washington Legal Foundation and Allied Educational Foundation. Richard R. Wiebe, Law Office of Richard R. Wiebe, San Francisco, California; Cindy A. Cohn, Lee Tien, Kurt Opsahl, Kevin S. Bankston, Corynne Mcherry and James S. Tyre, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California, for amicus curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation. James M. Ringer, Clifford Chance US LLP, New York, New York, for amici curiae Commonwealth Lawyers Association and JUSTICE.
Case Number: No. 08-15693

Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 11814 BINYAM MOHAMED; ABOU ELKASSIM BRITEL; AHMED AGIZA; MOHAMED FARAG AHMAD BASHMILAH; BISHER AL-RAWI, Plaintiffs-Appellants, p class=

Rothe Development Corp. v. Dep't of Defense

Publication Date: 2008-11-12
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Date Filed: 2008-11-04
Court: Fed. Cir.
Judge: Michel, Chief Judge.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for plaintiff-appellant: David Barton, The Gardner Law Firm, San Antonio.
for defendant: Attorney for defendant-appellees: Karen Stevens, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
Case Number: 2008-1017

Published opinionBefore MICHEL, Chief Judge, MAYER, Circuit Judge, and STEARNS,*fn1 District Judge.This case concerns the constitutionality of 10 U.S.C. §

March 6, 2007 | The American Lawyer

Will the Corporate Model Backfire on Greenberg?

In the course of a decade, Greenberg Traurig has had the kind of growth usually reserved for businesses that sell oil or iPods. Revenues are up by more than 880 percent from 1996, and in 2006 they

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Amelco Electric v. City of Thousand Oaks

Publication Date: 2002-02-05
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Date Filed: 2002-02-04
Court: Cal.Sup.Ct.
Judge: BROWN, J.
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Case Number: No. S091069

The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. In this case we determine whether the abandonment theory of liability applies against a public agency, and whether p

April 30, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

The Texas 100

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March 6, 2007 | The American Lawyer

Will the Corporate Model Backfire on Greenberg?

In the course of a decade, Greenberg Traurig has had the kind of growth usually reserved for businesses that sell oil or iPods. Revenues are up by more than 880 percent from 1996, and in 2006 they

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Arar v. Ashcroft

Publication Date: 2008-08-12
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Date Filed: 2008-06-30
Court: 2nd Cir.
Judge: JOSÉ A. Cabranes, Circuit Judge
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Case Number: 06-4216-cv

Argued: November 9, 2007Errata Filed: August 1, 2008Before: MCLAUGHLIN, CABRANES, and SACK, Circuit Judges.On September 26, 2002, plaintiff-appellant Maher Arar, a dual citizen of Syria and C