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  • May 6, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Come to a Full Stop

    When parties enter into tolling agreements, the conventional wisdom is that the potential litigation has come to a complete standstill. It is presumed that this agreement results in prejudice

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  • January 5, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    N.Y. Appeals Court Endorses Municipal Workers' Right to Union Help

    State law gives a municipal worker the right to refuse a meeting with an employer that might result in discipline unless the worker has a union representative present, an appeals court in Broo

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  • November 6, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Court System Moves to Bolster Merger Showing 'Mixed Results'

    With pending felonies in the Bronx skyrocketing, court officials announced yesterday that they will bolster the 2004 experiment in which both felony and misdemeanors are handled in a single Bronx c

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  • December 15, 1999 | National Law Journal

    Long-Fought Patent Changes Arrive

    What does patent reform have to do with dairy cattle and rural television? Usually the answer would be "absolutely nothing." But not this year, when Congress passed a bill--eventually called

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  • Queens County Second Department SUPREME COURT,

    Publication Date: 2012-12-12
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    Centralized Motion PartBarbetta v. Lee (19323/11)—Motion WithdrawnDale v. Chan (10096/11)—Motion WithdrawnKorm

  • April 9, 2007 | Daily Business Review

    Is the Class Action Fairness Act Burdening Federal Courts?

    Congressional Republicans who pushed through a class action overhaul bill in 2005 said they hoped to block plaintiffs attorneys from forum shopping and obtaining settlements in which consumers rece

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  • April 29, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Can a Franchisor Have Employer Liability for Franchisee's Torts?

    The hallmark of a franchise relationship is that the franchisor allows independent businesspeople to share in the good will represented by the trademarks in the distribution of goods or servi

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  • November 7, 2012 | The Associated Press

    Washington voters legalize recreational pot use

    SEATTLE (AP) - Washington joined Colorado in voting to become the first states to legalize and tax the sale of marijuana for recreational use, but people shouldn't expect to be able to buy a

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  • People v. Sencion

    Publication Date: 2012-11-28
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    Date Filed: 2012-11-28
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, James William Bilderback II and Mark E. Weber, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: David Y. Stanley, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. B236985

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 13055 THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. SANTIAGO GERARDO SENCION, JR., Defendan

  • February 24, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Lawyer Arrested in His Home Claims Civil Rights Breach

    As an in-house counsel for the city of Newark in the 1970s, Edward Petit-Clair defended police officers accused of civil-rights violations. Now he knows what it's like to be a plaintiff. On

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