• Mandal v. The City of New York, 02 Civ. 1234

    Publication Date: 2006-12-01
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    Date Filed: 2006-11-26
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
    Judge: William Pauley
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    Case Number: 02 Civ. 1234

    U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK For Plaintiff: Jonathan C. Moore, Esq. Mandal and Holmes For Plaintiff: James I. Meyerson, Esq. Man

  • September 10, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Excalibur Suit Shows Litigation Funding at Its Riskiest

    [Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect the court's ruling on September 10.] On November 20, 2012, Rex Wempen sat on the witness stand in Lon

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  • Matter of Elizabeth L. de Sanchez, 9650/1952

    Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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    Date Filed: 2008-01-03
    Court: Supreme Court, New York County
    Judge: Carol Edmead
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    Case Number: 9650/1952

    Justice Carol R. Edmead NEW YORK COUNTY Supreme Court For Pedro and Adolfo Arellano Lamar: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Mark S. Sullivan For JP

  • October 16, 2006 | Legal Times

    Sealed Filings Increase at High Court

    When the Supreme Court debates the constitutionality of the federal "partial birth abortion" law next month, it will have some sensitive information in its hands that no member of the pu

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  • October 19, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Sealed Filings Increase at High Court

    When the U.S. Supreme Court debates the constitutionality of the federal "partial-birth abortion" law next month, it will have some sensitive information in its hands that no member of the pub

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  • June 23, 2003 | Legal Times

    Does U.S. Trump States in Pesticide Cases?

    The Supreme Court will soon consider a pair of cases that could place the justices in the middle of a high-stakes battle over whether herbicide and pesticide manufacturers can be held li

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  • Legal Profession McMillan v. City of New York CV-08-2887 U.S. District Court, Eastern District Magistrate Judge Viktor V. Pohorelsky Decided: March 4

    Publication Date: 2010-03-05
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    Counsel for the claimant has moved, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, for an order relieving counsel from the Amended Order, Judgment, Findings of Fact and Conclusi

  • Alleyne v. United States

    Publication Date: 2013-06-18
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    Date Filed: 2013-06-17
    Court: U.S. Sup. Ct.
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    Case Number: No. 11–9335

      ALLEN RYAN ALLEYNE, PETITIONER v. UNITED STATES N

  • 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

  • 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=