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  • Lapid-Laurel, L.L.C. v. Zoning Board of Adjustments of the Township of Scotch Plains

    Publication Date: 2002-03-19
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    Date Filed: 2002-03-15
    Court: 3rd Cir.
    Judge: Becker, Chief Judge.
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    Case Number: 00-3625

    PRECEDENTIALArgued: September 7, 2001OPINION OF THE COURTPlaintiff Lapid-Laurel, L.L.C. ("Lapid"), a real estate development firm that unsuccessfully sought approval from the Zoning Board of

  • Lopez v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts

    Publication Date: 2009-12-08
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    Date Filed: 2009-12-03
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Lynch, Chief Judge.
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    Case Number: 09-1664

    Before Lynch, Chief Judge, Torruella and Howard, Circuit Judges.Plaintiffs, minority police officers, have brought a disparate impact race claim under Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(k)(1)(A)(i

  • Humane Society of the United States v. Locke

    Publication Date: 2010-11-23
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    Date Filed: 2010-11-23
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Michael W. Mosman, District Judge, Presiding Before: Raymond C. Fisher and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges, and Jeremy D. Fogel, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebecca G. Judd, Sarah Uhlemann (argued) and Jonathan R. Lovvorn, The Humane Society of the United States, Washington, D.C.; Gary K. Kahn and Peggy Hennessy, Reeves, Kahn & Hennessy, Portland, Oregon, for the plaintiffs-appellants.
    for defendant: John C. Cruden, James A. Maysonett and Mark R. Haag (argued), United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Mark A. Hodor, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland; Lori L. Caramanian, United States Department of Justice, Denver, Colorado; Coby Howell, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Portland, Oregon, for appellees Gary Locke, James W Balsiger and James Lecky. Robert M. McKenna, Attorney General, Neil L. Wise, Assistant Attorney General, and Michael B. Ferguson, Assistant Attorney General, Olympia, Washington, for defendant-intervenor-appellee Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife. John R. Kroger, Attorney General, Jerome Lidz, Solicitor General, and Cecil A. Reniche-Smith (argued), Assistant Attorney General, Salem, Oregon, for defendant-intervenor-appellee State of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
    Case Number: No. 08-36038

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 14581 HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES; WILD FISH CONSERVANCY; BETHANIE O'DRISCOLL; ANDREA KOZIL, Plaintiffs-Appellants, p class="ca

  • In re Thorpe Insulation Company

    Publication Date: 2012-01-24
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    Date Filed: 2012-01-24
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Dale S. Fischer, District Judge, Presiding Before: Mary M. Schroeder and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Richard Seeborg, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Patterson (argued), Kenneth N. Klee, Daniel J. Bussel, and David M. Guess, Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jeremy V. Richards and Scotta E. McFarland, Pachulski, Stang, Diehl & Jones LLP, Los Angeles, California, for appellee Thorpe Insulation Company. John A. Lapinski and Leslie R. Horowitz, Clark & Trevithick, P.L.C., Los Angeles, California, for appellee Pacific Insulation Company. Peter Van N. Lockwood (argued), Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, Washington, D.C.; Peter J. Benvenutti, Jones Day, San Francisco, California, for appellee Counsel for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Thorpe Insulation Company and Pacific Insulation Company. Gary Fergus, Fergus, A Law Office, San Francisco, California, for appellee Charles B. Renfrew, the Futures Representative.
    for defendant: David C. Christian, II (argued), Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Chicago, Illinois; James M. Harris, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Los Angeles, California; Todd C. Jacobs, Grippe & Elden LLC, Chicago, Illinois, for appellants Continental Insurance Company and National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford. Tancred V. Schiavoni, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, New York; Richard B. Goetz, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jonathan Hacker, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C.; Alan S. Berman, the Berman Law Group, Woodland Hills, California, for appellants Motor Vehicle Casualty Company, Central National Insurance Company of Omaha, and Century Indemnity Company, successor to Cigna Specialty Insurance Company f/k/a California Union Insurance Company.
    Case Number: No. 10-56543 No. 10-56622

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 939 In the Matter of: THORPE INSULATION COMPANY, Debtor, MOTOR VEHICLE CASUALTY COMPANY; CENTRAL NATIONAL INS

  • Writt v. Shell Oil Co.

    Publication Date: 2013-07-02
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    Date Filed: 2013-06-25
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 1
    Judge: Terry Jennings, Justice
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    Case Number: 01-11-00201-CV

    On Appeal from the 189th District Court Harris County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. 2009-65221. P

  • Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.

    Publication Date: 2013-04-17
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    Date Filed: 2013-04-17
    Court: U.S. Sup. Ct.
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    Case Number: No. 10–1491

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 3743ESTHER KIOBEL, individually and on behalf of her late husband, DR. BARINEM KIOBEL, et al., Peti­tioner

  • Amnesty International USA v. Clapper, 09-4112-cv

    Publication Date: 2011-03-23
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Calabresi, Sack, and Lynch, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jameel Jaffer, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York (Melissa Goodman and Laurence M. Schwartztol, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY; Christopher T. Dunn and Arthur N. Eisenburg, New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY; Charles S. Sims, Theodore K. Cheng, Matthew J. Morris, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant. Barbara Moses, Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C., New York, NY; Emily Berman and Elizabeth Goitein, The Brennan Center for Justice, New York, NY; Sharon Bradford Franklin, The Constitution Project, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae The Brennan Center for Justice, The Center for Democracy & Technology, The Constitution Project, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, and The Rutherford Institute in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Lucy A. Dalglish and Gregg P. Leslie, Counsel for The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, VA, for Amicus Curiae The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Duane L. Loft, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY; Peter T. Barbur, The New York City Bar Association, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae The New York City Bar Association in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Robert A. Atkins and William J. Taylor, Jr., Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Law Professors Michelle Adams, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University; Baher Azmy, Seton Hall University School of Law; Fletcher N. Baldwin, Jr., Levin College of Law, University of Florida; Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Irvine, School of Law; Norman Dorsen, New York University; David M. Driesen, Syracuse University College of Law; Eric M. Freedman, Hofstra Law School; Lynne Henderson, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada-Las Vegas; Seth F. Kreimer, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Alexander A. Reinert, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University; David Rudovsky, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Daniel J. Solove, George Washington University Law School in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: Douglas N. Letter, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Tony West, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Daniel J. Lenerz, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.
    Case Number: 09-4112-cv

    Cite as: Amnesty International USA v. Clapper, 09-4112-cv, NYLJ 1202487354917, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided March 21, 2011)Before: Calabresi, Sack, and Lynch, C.JJ.

  • McGee v. Bartow

    Publication Date: 2010-02-05
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    Date Filed: 2010-01-27
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: Ripple, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 07-3278

    ARGUED DECEMBER 5, 2008Before RIPPLE, KANNE and TINDER, Circuit Judges.In 2003, Michael McGee was ordered to be civilly committed as a "sexually violent person" ("SVP") pursuant to Chapter 980 o

  • Amnesty International USA v. Clapper, 09-4112-cv

    Publication Date: 2011-03-23
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Calabresi, Sack, and Lynch, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jameel Jaffer, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York (Melissa Goodman and Laurence M. Schwartztol, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY; Christopher T. Dunn and Arthur N. Eisenburg, New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY; Charles S. Sims, Theodore K. Cheng, Matthew J. Morris, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant. Barbara Moses, Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C., New York, NY; Emily Berman and Elizabeth Goitein, The Brennan Center for Justice, New York, NY; Sharon Bradford Franklin, The Constitution Project, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae The Brennan Center for Justice, The Center for Democracy & Technology, The Constitution Project, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, and The Rutherford Institute in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Lucy A. Dalglish and Gregg P. Leslie, Counsel for The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, VA, for Amicus Curiae The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Duane L. Loft, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY; Peter T. Barbur, The New York City Bar Association, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae The New York City Bar Association in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Robert A. Atkins and William J. Taylor, Jr., Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Law Professors Michelle Adams, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University; Baher Azmy, Seton Hall University School of Law; Fletcher N. Baldwin, Jr., Levin College of Law, University of Florida; Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Irvine, School of Law; Norman Dorsen, New York University; David M. Driesen, Syracuse University College of Law; Eric M. Freedman, Hofstra Law School; Lynne Henderson, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada-Las Vegas; Seth F. Kreimer, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Alexander A. Reinert, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University; David Rudovsky, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Daniel J. Solove, George Washington University Law School in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: Douglas N. Letter, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Tony West, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Daniel J. Lenerz, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.
    Case Number: 09-4112-cv

    Cite as: Amnesty International USA v. Clapper, 09-4112-cv, NYLJ 1202487354917, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided March 21, 2011)Before: Calabresi, Sack, and Lynch, C.JJ.

  • Owens v. Guida

    Publication Date: 2008-12-15
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    Date Filed: 2008-12-09
    Court: 6th Cir.
    Judge: Boggs, Chief Judge.
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    Case Number: 05-6105

    RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206Argued: January 29, 2008Before: BOGGS, Chief Judge; and MERRITT and SILER, Circuit Judges.BOGGS, C. J., delivered the o