• William A. Gross Construction Associates Inc. v. American Manufacturers Mutual Ins. Co., 07 Civ. 10639

    Publication Date: 2009-03-26
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    Date Filed: 2009-03-19
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
    Judge: Andrew Peck
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    Case Number: 07 Civ. 10639

    Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Magistrate Judge Peck OPINION AND ORDER This Opinion should se

  • June 3, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

    Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Bonds, Supersedeas Bonds: Are Attorney Fees In or Out?

    Because of Vincent “Tripp” Marable’s legal work, the cost of supersedeas bonds could get cheaper for parties who want to suspend the enforcement of a monetary judgm

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  • Al-Harmain Inlamic Foundation, Inc. v. Obama

    Publication Date: 2012-08-07
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    Date Filed: 2012-08-07
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Vaughn R. Walker, District Judge, Presiding Before: Harry Pregerson, Michael Daly Hawkins, and M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jon B. Eisenberg, Eisenberg and Hancock, Oakland, California, for the plaintiffs-appellees, cross-appellants. Cindy A. Cohn, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California, for Amici Curiae The Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Government Accountability Project, James Bamford, and Former Intelligence, National Security and Military Professionals, for the plaintiffs-appellees/cross-appellants.
    for defendant: Douglas N. Letter, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellants/cross-appellees. Richard A. Samp, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae James J. Carey, Norman T. Saunders, Thomas L. Hemingway, Washington Legal Foundation, and The National Defense Committee, for the defendants-appellants/cross-appellees.

    Case Number: No. 11-15468 No. 11-15535

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 8949 AL-HARAMAIN ISLAMIC FOUNDATION, INC., an Oregon Nonprofit Corporation; WENDELL BELEW, a U.S. Citizen and Attorney at Law; ASIM GH

  • December 14, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    'Tis the Season When Gifts Become Bribes

    People who are otherwise serious about the global scourge of bribery get frustrated when anyone raises the issue of gifts as bribes. Surely, most people will say, we haven’t reached the

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  • March 5, 2002 | National Law Journal

    Foreign Invasion

    The British are coming. So are the Australians. And several from the Netherlands. And others from as far away as Nigeria.Last year there were more than 75 British and other forei

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  • September 10, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Latham, Gardere Grab Roles on BP's Gulf of Mexico Asset Sale

    London-based energy giant BP has agreed to sell some of its deepwater oil and gas assets in the Gulf of Mexico to Houston-based Plains Exploration and Production in a a href="http://www.la

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  • Texas Department of Transportation v. Sanchez

    Publication Date: 2001-10-26
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    Date Filed: 2001-10-24
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 4
    Judge: Sarah B. Duncan, Justice
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    Case Number: 04-01-00267-CV

    REVERSED AND RENDEREDThe Texas Department of Transportation appeals the trial court's denial of its plea to the jurisdiction. TXDOT's appeal requires that we interpret sections 101.056(2) and 101.0

  • April 26, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

    How Do You Spell Relief? R-E-V-I-S-I-O-N-S

    The state Supreme Court has revised some of the proposed changes to the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct that gave lawyers the most heartburn. Some lawyers had been upset tha

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  • Lawson v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-02-09
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    Date Filed: 2009-02-05
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 2
    Judge: Bob Mccoy Justice
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    Case Number: 2-08-116-CR

    OPINIONI. IntroductionIn three points, Appellant Maurice Felton Lawson appeals his conviction for violation of a permanent injunction under the "gang injunction statute." We affirm.II. Factua

  • May 18, 2010 | Bloomberg

    Investors shouldn't fear the 'three Gs'

    The stock market has made no progress for three weeks. Traders blame the "three Gs," Greece, Goldman Sachs and the Gulf of Mexico. Greece, teetering on the brink of default on its sov

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