• In re Reno

    Publication Date: 2012-08-30
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    Date Filed: 2012-08-30
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bill Lockyer, Edmund G. Brown, Jr., and Kamala D. Harris, Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, John R. Gorey, Joseph P. Lee, Robert David Breton and Mary Sanchez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent State of California. Kent S. Scheidegger for Criminal Justice Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondent State of California. Michael Laurence for the Habeas Corpus Resource Center and California Public Defenders Association as Amici Curiae. Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defender, and Nina Rivkind, Deputy State Public Defender, for the Office of the State Public Defender as Amicus Curiae. Cliff Gardner; Lawrence A. Gibbs; and John T. Philipsborn for the Federal Public Defender for the Eastern and Central Districts and the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice as Amici Curiae.
    for defendant: James S. Thomson, Saor Stetler and Peter Giannini, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner Reno.

    Case Number: No. S124660

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 10049 In re RENO on Habeas Corpus. No. S124660 In the Supreme Court of Califor

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  • Paradigm Oil Inc. v. Retamco Operating Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-06-25
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    Date Filed: 2012-06-22
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: David M. Medina Justice
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: NO. 10-0997

    Argued February 9, 2012 JUSTICE MEDINA delivered the opinion of the Court. JUSTICE GREEN did not participate in the decision. Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 215.2(b)(5) au

  • March 7, 2003 | New York Law Journal

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  • March 14, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

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