• January 25, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Columbia Law, Business School to Launch Research Center Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School are joining forces to launch an academic research center that wi

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  • May 24, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    2nd Circuit: Federal Judge Lacks Authority to Hear Demands KPMG Pay Legal Fees

    A federal judge lacks the power to hear claims by indicted former KPMG executives that the accounting giant must pay for their defense in a massive criminal tax shelter prosecution, the 2nd U.S. Ci

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  • January 12, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Panel Finds Justice Ineligible for Higher Pension Benefit

    ALBANY - An appointed Court of Claims judge assigned to a Supreme Court position cannot benefit from a provision that permits public employment retirees who assume an elective post to continue

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  • Haskell v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2012-02-23
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    Date Filed: 2012-02-23
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Charles R. Breyer, District Judge, Presiding Before: William A. Fletcher and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges, and James Dale Todd, Senior District Judge.**
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael T. Risher (argued), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, Inc., San Francisco, California, and Peter C. Meier and Eric A. Long, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Powell, Deputy Attorney General (argued), Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General of California, James M. Humes, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Jonathan K. Renner, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Constance L. LeLouis, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Enid A. Camps, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, California, for the defendants-appellees. Daniel J. Broderick, Federal Defender, David Porter, Assistant Federal Defender, Rachelle Barbour, Research and Writing Attorney, Sacramento, California, and John T. Philipsborn, San Francisco, California, for amici curiae Federal Defender of the Eastern and Southern Districts of California, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Jonathan S. Franklin, Tillman J. Breckenridge, and Mark T. Emery, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae DNA Saves. Anne Marie Schubert, Albert C. Locher, Jan Scully, and W. Scott Thorpe, Sacramento, California, for amicus curiae California District Attorneys Association.

    Case Number: No. 10-15152

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 2163 ELIZABETH AIDA HASKELL; REGINALD ENTO; JEFFREY PATRICK LYONS, JR.; AAKASH DESAI, on behalf of themselves and others similarly sit

  • July 2, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Probable Cause for Disciplinary Claims 'as a Whole' Kills Malicious Prosecution Suit

    An embattled former upstate New York police chief who was suspended but reinstated after winning a disciplinary proceeding has no claim for malicious prosecution, a unanimous state appeals pane

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  • September 15, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Removal Games

    Baseball fans will recall that in 1989, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, Bart Giamatti, investigated allegations that Pete Rose a/k/a "Charlie Hustle" — l

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  • November 14, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Kilpatrick forms white-collar crime team

    A former King & Spalding partner who went on to be a federal prosecutor in New York is returning to Atlanta to launch a special investigations and white-collar crime team at Kilpatrick St

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  • April 13, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    The Separate Entity Rule: The Deep Divide

    Justice Michael D. Stallman recently observed in Global Technology v. Royal Bank of Ca

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  • April 18, 2000 | Daily Business Review

    Back on the Hot Seat

    As Florida Supreme Court justices were preparing to reprimand Miami appellate judge Alan R. Schwartz for "intemperate and discourteous behavior," a judicial ethics panel was investigating a new com

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