• McClain v. Hall

    Publication Date: 2009-01-02
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    Date Filed: 2008-12-18
    Court: 11th Cir.
    Judge: Pryor, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 07-13487

    PUBLISHBefore BIRCH, BARKETT and PRYOR, Circuit Judges.The issue in this appeal is whether the Superior Court of Butts County, Georgia, unreasonably applied clearly established federal law when

  • May 24, 2001 | National Law Journal

    Where to Try a Mass Tort Case

    Most of the largest mass tort cases in the federal courts over the past 10 years have been brought as non-federal-question class actions. These class actions have encompassed a broad ran

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  • March 14, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Conflicting convictions challenged

    An Ohio murder case in which the prosecutor secured two separate convictions by using irreconcilable theories that each defendant fired the fatal shot has prompted the U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Sweeper v. Tavera, 08 Civ. 6372

    Publication Date: 2009-09-29
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    Date Filed: 2009-09-21
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
    Judge: Harold Baer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 08 Civ. 6372

    District Judge Harold Baer U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Plaintiff was pro se. Counsel for Defendants: Paul Stuart Haberman, Heidell, Pittoni,

  • Greenwich Life Settlements, Inc., Plaintiffs v. Viasource Funding Group, LLC, Defendant, 08 Civ. 3062 (PKL)

    Publication Date: 2010-10-13
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Peter K. Leisure
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Plaintiffs: Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston, Rosen Richard Gerard Haddad, New York, NY
    for defendant: Attorney for Defendant: Kelleher & Dunne LLP, John Walter Dunne, New York, NY *1

    Case Number: 08 Civ. 3062 (PKL)

    Cite as: Greenwich Life Settlements, Inc. v. Viasource Funding Group, LLC, 08 Civ. 3062 (PKL), NYLJ 1202473126130, at *1 (SDNY, Decided October 4, 2010)District

  • Esty v. Beal Bank S.S.B.

    Publication Date: 2009-08-19
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    Date Filed: 2009-08-18
    Court: Tx. App. Dist. 5
    Judge: Martin Richter Justice
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 05-08-00038-CV

    AFFIRMOPINIONBefore Justices Richter, Lang, and Murphy.This summary judgment appeal arises from a failed effort to secure a loan to purchase assets in a bankruptcy proceeding. Robert Esty, in