• July 18, 2013 | International

    Asia Deal Digest: July 18, 2013

    China/Hong Kong/Taiwan Davis Polk & Wardwell is acting for Chinese Internet search giant Baidu Holdings Ltd. on its $1.9 billion acquisition of 9

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  • Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-09-18
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    Date Filed: 2000-09-14
    Court: 2nd Cir.
    Judge: OAKES, LEVAL and POOLER
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: JUDITH BROWN CHOMSKY, Jennifer M. Green, Beth Stephens, and Richard Herz
    for defendant: RORY O. MILLSON and Sandra C. Goldstein

    Case Number: Nos. 99-7223[L],

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion.This case concerns the application of forum non conveniens doctrine to suits under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA), 2

  • Erny v. Estate of Merola

    Publication Date: 2002-01-31
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    Date Filed: 2002-01-30
    Court: N.J. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: LaVECCHIA, J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: NO. A-71 Septemb

    Argued September 24, 2001On certification to the Superior Court, Appellate Division, whose opinion is reported at 333 N.J. Super. 88 (2000).The choice-of-law question presented in this appeal re

  • O'Connor v. Blodnick, Abramowitz and Blodnick

    Publication Date: 2002-06-25
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    Court: Appellate Division, 2nd Dept
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    Case Number: 2001-04635

    SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT 0501f O/mv AD2d Argued - May 20, 2002 FRED T. SANTUCCI, J.P. M

  • September 26, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Treasure Hunters Sanctioned for Bad Faith Litigation

    This story originally appeared in The National Law Journal, an American Lawyer sibling publication.In a blistering decision issued Wednesday, a federal judge in Florida orde

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  • Finkelman v. Greenbaum, 8998-06

    Publication Date: 2007-01-30
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    Date Filed: 2007-01-10
    Court: Supreme Court, Nassau County
    Judge: Leonard Austin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 8998-06

    Justice Leonard B. Austin NASSAU COUNTY Supreme Court COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF Storch, Amini & Munves, P.C. COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANT D

  • January 23, 2013 | Bloomberg

    Toyota offers $2.3 billion of debt in first deal since '09

    Toyota Motor Corp., the world's biggest carmaker, is raising $2.3 billion with its first bond sale in the currency since 2009. The company is offering securities due August 2017 and Fe

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  • Levin v. United States

    Publication Date: 2013-03-04
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    Date Filed: 2013-03-04
    Court: U.S. Sup. Ct.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: No. 11–1351

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 2277STEVEN ALAN LEVIN, PETITIONERv.UNITED STATES et al.No. 11&a

  • August 3, 2012 | Daily Business Review

    Ryder acquires English commercial truck company

    Ryder System Inc. has acquired Euroway Group Ltd., a Bedfordshire, England, commercial truck leasing, maintenance and fleet management provider. Terms of the deal were not discl

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  • November 13, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Teenage Self-Injury: The Secret Language of Pain

    'I feel relieved and less anxious after I cut. The emotional pain slowly slips away into the physical pain."1 This is one young person's explanation for deliberately an

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