• December 2, 2002 | Legal Times

    Civil Actions

    The following selected cases were recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Eastern District of Virginia, and in Greenbelt, Md. This information was provid

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  • October 18, 2004 | Legal Times

    Powell Goldstein Hammered in Builders Case

    In the summer of 2001, the National Association of Home Builders sought advice from the D.C. office of Powell Goldstein on how to cut the tax bill on its increasingly profitable research cente

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  • March 5, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Davis Polk, Weil Gotshal, Sullivan, Simpson Work on AIG Restructuring In yet another attempt to avoid bankruptcy, American International Group Inc. has rece

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  • October 21, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Surrogate's Court Surrogate Glen Surrogate Webber

    Surrogate's CourtSurrogate GlenESTATE OF LESLIE BLANCHARD a/k/a LESLIE D. BLANCHARD, Deceased (4733/86)—This is a proceeding for the sett

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  • State of California v. Safeway, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-08-17
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    Date Filed: 2010-08-17
    Court: 9th Cir.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General for the State of California; Kathleen E. Foote, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Barbara M. Motz, Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Cheryl L. Johnson, Deputy Attorney General, and Jonathan M. Eisenberg, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiff-appellants-cross-appellees. Alan B. Clark, Peter K. Huston, Los Angeles, California, and Jeremy P. Sherman, Chicago, Illinois, for respondent-appellees-cross-appellants Safeway Inc. and the Vons Companies, Inc.
    for defendant: Jeffrey A. LeVee, Craig E. Stewart, and Kate Wallace, Los Angeles, California, for respondent-appellee-cross-appellant Albertson?s, Inc. Robert B. Pringle, San Francisco, California, for respondent-appellees-cross-appellants Ralphs Grocery Company and Food 4 Less Food Company. Robin S. Conrad, Shane B. Kawka, Washington, District of Columbia, for amicus curiae Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Charles I. Cohen, Jonathan C. Fritts and David R. Broderdorf, Washington, District of Columbia, for amici curiae Chamber of Commerce of the United States and Council on Labor Law Equality. Jeffrey A. Berman, Los Angeles, California, for amicus curiae Employers Group. Robert M. McKenna, Attorney General of Washington; and Mark O. Brevard, Assistant Attorney General, Seattle, Washington; and Nancy H. Rogers, Attorney General of Ohio; and Jennifer L. Pratt, Chief, Antitrust Section, Columbus, Ohio for amici curiae Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia. Nicholas W. Clark, Washington, District of Columbia, for amicus curiae United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Michael D. Four, Los Angeles, California, for amici curiae UFCW Local Unions 135, 324, 770, 1036, 1167, 1428 and 1442. Andrew D. Roth, Washington, District of Columbia, for amici curiae United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, UFCW Local Unions 135, 324, 770, 1036, 1167, 1428 and 1442, Change to Win and AFL-CIO. Patrick J. Szymanski, Washington, District of Columbia, for amicus curiae Change to Win. Jonathan P. Hiatt, Washington, District of Columbia, for amicus curiae AFL-CIO.

    Case Number: No. 08-55671 No. 08-55708

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 10633STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ex rel. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v.SAFEWAY, INC.

  • Carlin v. DairyAmerica, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-08-07
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    Date Filed: 2012-08-07
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Anthony W. Ishii, United States District Judge, Presiding Before: Raymond C. Fisher and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges, and George H. Wu, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin D. Brown (argued), Daniel A. Small, Victoria S. Nugent, George F. Farah and Brent W. Johnson, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Joseph J. Tabacco, Jr., Christopher T. Heffelfinger and Anthony D. Phillips, Berman DeValerio, San Francisco, California; Ron Kilgard, Keller Rohrback P.L.C., Phoenix, Arizona; Jon A. Tostrud, Case Lombardi and Pettit, Honolulu, Hawaii; Lynn L. Sarko, Mark A. Griffin, Juli E. Farris, Keller Rohrback P.L.C., Seattle, Washington; J. Barton Goplerud, Hudson, Mallaney, Shindler and Anderson, PC, West Des Moines, Iowa, for the plaintiffs-appellants.
    for defendant: Allison A. Davis, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, San Francisco, California; Charles M. English (argued), Wendy M. Yoviene and E. John Steren, Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee DairyAmerica, Inc. John J. Vlahos (argued), Lawrence M. Cirelli and S. Anne Johnson, Hanson Bridgett LLP, San Francisco, California, for defendant-appellee California Dairies, Inc.

    Case Number: No. 10-16448

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 8907 GERALD CARLIN, JOHN RAHM, PAUL ROZWADOWSKI, And BRYAN WOLFE, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. p class="cas

  • August 6, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Judge Pleads Guilty To Driving While Impaired Judge Gerard E. Maney, the Family Court supervising judge for the Third Judicial District, must pay $560 in fines and surch

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  • Postma v. STC Bus Transportation Corp.

    Publication Date: 2003-05-12
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    Court: Appellate Division, 2nd Dept
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2002-07362

    SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT 4228f E/cf AD2d Argued - March 21, 2003 FRED T. SANTUCCI, J.P.

  • Amnesty International USA v. Clapper, 09-4112-cv

    Publication Date: 2011-03-23
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Calabresi, Sack, and Lynch, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jameel Jaffer, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York (Melissa Goodman and Laurence M. Schwartztol, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY; Christopher T. Dunn and Arthur N. Eisenburg, New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY; Charles S. Sims, Theodore K. Cheng, Matthew J. Morris, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant. Barbara Moses, Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C., New York, NY; Emily Berman and Elizabeth Goitein, The Brennan Center for Justice, New York, NY; Sharon Bradford Franklin, The Constitution Project, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae The Brennan Center for Justice, The Center for Democracy & Technology, The Constitution Project, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, and The Rutherford Institute in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Lucy A. Dalglish and Gregg P. Leslie, Counsel for The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, VA, for Amicus Curiae The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Duane L. Loft, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY; Peter T. Barbur, The New York City Bar Association, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae The New York City Bar Association in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Robert A. Atkins and William J. Taylor, Jr., Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Law Professors Michelle Adams, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University; Baher Azmy, Seton Hall University School of Law; Fletcher N. Baldwin, Jr., Levin College of Law, University of Florida; Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Irvine, School of Law; Norman Dorsen, New York University; David M. Driesen, Syracuse University College of Law; Eric M. Freedman, Hofstra Law School; Lynne Henderson, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada-Las Vegas; Seth F. Kreimer, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Alexander A. Reinert, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University; David Rudovsky, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Daniel J. Solove, George Washington University Law School in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: Douglas N. Letter, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Tony West, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Daniel J. Lenerz, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

    Case Number: 09-4112-cv

    Cite as: Amnesty International USA v. Clapper, 09-4112-cv, NYLJ 1202487354917, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided March 21, 2011)Before: Calabresi, Sack, and Lynch, C.JJ.

  • October 22, 2002 | Corporate Counsel

    Heinz Del Monte

    H.J. Heinz Company has decided to reorganize its cupboard by acquiring Del Monte Foods Company in a $2.8 billion multipart deal announced in mid-June. Heinz first spun off some of its wea

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