• October 11, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Canadian Suits

    That didn't take long. Just nine months after filing for protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), media conglomerate Canwest Global Communications Corp. found separate buye

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  • In Re Lehman Bros, 10-0712-cv

    Publication Date: 2011-05-16
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Feinberg, Cabranes, and Raggi, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel P. Laitman, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, New York, New York (Michael B. Eisenkraft, Daniel B. Rehns, Kenneth M. Rehns, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, New York, New York; Steven J. Toll, Joshua S. Devore, Matthew B. Kaplan, S. Douglas Bunch, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Lead Plaintiff-Appellant Locals 302 & 612 of the International Union of Operating Engineers—Employers Construction Industry Retirement Trust and Plaintiffs-Appellants New Jersey Carpenters Health Fund and Boilermakers-Blacksmith National Pension Trust. Joseph J. Tabacco, Jr., Berman DeValerio, San Francisco, California (Patrick T. Egan, Berman DeValerio, Boston, Massachusetts, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants Wyoming State Treasurer and Wyoming Retirement System. Lester L.Levy, Wolf Popper LLP, New York, New York, for Lead Plaintiff-Appellant Vaszurele Limited.
    for defendant: Floyd Abrams (S. Penny Windle (admission pending), Adam Zurofsky, Tammy L. Roy, on the brief), Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee The McGraw Hill Companies, Inc. James J. Coster (Joshua M. Rubins, Glenn C. Edwards, on the brief), Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee Moody's Investors Service, Inc. Andrew J.Ehrlich (Martin Flumenbaum, on the brief), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee Fitch, Inc.

    Case Number: 10-0712-cv, 10-0898-cv, 10-1288-cv

    Cite as: In Re Lehman Bros, 10-0712-cv, NYLJ 1202493939547, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided May 11, 2011)Before: Feinberg, Cabranes, and Raggi, C.JJ.p class=

  • Gilb v. Chiang

    Publication Date: 2010-07-06
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    Date Filed: 2010-07-02
    Court: C.A. 3rd
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: K. William Curtis, Warren C. Stracener, Linda A. Mayhew, Christopher E. Thomas for Plaintiffs and Respondents.
    for defendant: Kaye Scholer, Steven S. Rosenthal, Marc S. Cohen, Jay W. Waks, and Bryant Delgadillo; Richard J. Chivaro, Ronald V. Placet and Shawn D. Silva for Defendants and Appellants. Law Offices of Brooks Ellison and Patrick J. Whalen for California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges, etc.; Paul E. Harris III, Brooke D. Pierman; Olson Hagel & Fishburn, Deborah B. Caplan, N. Eugene Hill and Richard C. Miadich for Service Employees International Union, Yvonne Walker, Pamela Handel, Tamekia Robinson and Kathleen Phillips; Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, Gary M. Messing, Gregg McLean Adam and Jonathan Yank, for California Correctional Peace Officers? Association and California Statewide Law Enforcement Association; Daniel M. Lindsay for California Correctional Peace Officers? Association; Kasey C. Clark for California Statewide Law Enforcement Association, Interveners and Appellants.

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    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 8598DAVID A. GILB, as Director, etc. et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. JOHN CHI

  • Beth M.

    Publication Date: 2006-08-25
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    Date Filed: 2006-07-25
    Court: Supreme Court, Suffolk County
    Judge: Ruth Balkin
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    SUFFOLK COUNTY Supreme Court Justice Balkin "Whoever you are-I have always depended on

  • In re Thorpe Insulation Company

    Publication Date: 2012-01-24
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    Date Filed: 2012-01-24
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Dale S. Fischer, District Judge, Presiding Before: Mary M. Schroeder and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Richard Seeborg, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Patterson (argued), Kenneth N. Klee, Daniel J. Bussel, and David M. Guess, Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jeremy V. Richards and Scotta E. McFarland, Pachulski, Stang, Diehl & Jones LLP, Los Angeles, California, for appellee Thorpe Insulation Company. John A. Lapinski and Leslie R. Horowitz, Clark & Trevithick, P.L.C., Los Angeles, California, for appellee Pacific Insulation Company. Peter Van N. Lockwood (argued), Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, Washington, D.C.; Peter J. Benvenutti, Jones Day, San Francisco, California, for appellee Counsel for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Thorpe Insulation Company and Pacific Insulation Company. Gary Fergus, Fergus, A Law Office, San Francisco, California, for appellee Charles B. Renfrew, the Futures Representative.
    for defendant: David C. Christian, II (argued), Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Chicago, Illinois; James M. Harris, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Los Angeles, California; Todd C. Jacobs, Grippe & Elden LLC, Chicago, Illinois, for appellants Continental Insurance Company and National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford. Tancred V. Schiavoni, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, New York; Richard B. Goetz, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jonathan Hacker, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C.; Alan S. Berman, the Berman Law Group, Woodland Hills, California, for appellants Motor Vehicle Casualty Company, Central National Insurance Company of Omaha, and Century Indemnity Company, successor to Cigna Specialty Insurance Company f/k/a California Union Insurance Company.

    Case Number: No. 10-56543 No. 10-56622

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 939 In the Matter of: THORPE INSULATION COMPANY, Debtor, MOTOR VEHICLE CASUALTY COMPANY; CENTRAL NATIONAL INS

  • January 9, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Report of the Supreme Court Special Committee on Public Access to Court Records - Publication for Comment

    The Supreme Court invites written comments on the November 29, 2007 Report of the Supreme Court Special Committee on Public Access to Court Records published with this notice. The report also

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  • Board of Managers v. Levenbrown, 117382/08

    Publication Date: 2009-09-29
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    Date Filed: 2009-09-16
    Court: Supreme Court, New York County
    Judge: Carol Edmead
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    Case Number: 117382/08

    Justice Carol Robinson Edmead NEW YORK COUNTY Supreme Court Justice Edmead

  • Joel Spigelman v. USA, 10 Civ. 7579 (SAS)

    Publication Date: 2012-09-11
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Petitioner (Pro Se): Joel Spigelman, # 57380-004, USP Coleman, Coleman, FL.
    for defendant: For Respondent: Michael D. Maimin, Assistant United States Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, SDNY, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 10 Civ. 7579 (SAS)

    Cite as: Joel Spigelman v. USA, 10 Civ. 7579 (SAS), NYLJ 1202570863738, at *1 (SDNY, Decided August 21, 2012)District Judge Shira A. Scheindlinp clas

  • City of Cerritos v. Cerritos Taxpayers Association

    Publication Date: 2010-04-21
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    Date Filed: 2010-04-20
    Court: C.A. 2nd
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant: Timothy K. Quick for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant Cerritos Taxpayers Association. C. Robert Ferguson for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant United Community Alliance.

    Case Number: No. B214530

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 4938CITY OF CERRITOS et al., Plaintiffs, Cross-defendants and Respondents, v.CERRITOS

  • Leibowitz v. Aternity Inc., 10 CV 2289

    Publication Date: 2010-07-26
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    Date Filed: 2010-07-14
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District
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    Case Number: 10 CV 2289

    District Judge Arthur D. Spatt U.S. DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Attorneys for the Plaintiff: By: Dennis M. Perlberg, Esq., Ira Leibowitz, Esq., Thom