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July 7, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Lawyering Suits Pile Up at Supreme Court

From client advice to attorney fees to ineffective assistance of counsel, the U.S. Supreme Court decided an unusually large number of cases last term involving how lawyers do their jobs. Th

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June 10, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

Panel's Sharply Split Ruling Finds Jury Charge Coercive

A trial judge's admonition to a deadlocked Manhattan jury that "the point of the process is to get a result" was coercive and requires a new trial for the defendant, charged with selling illeg

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January 19, 2011 | New York Law Journal

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Panel Finds D.A. Does Not Have to Release Documents The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office is not required under the state's Freedom of Information Law to release documents relating to

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United States v. Berry

Publication Date: 2012-06-12
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Date Filed: 2012-06-12
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: D. Lowell Jensen, Senior District Judge, Presiding Before: A. Wallace Tashima and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges, and Terry J. Hatter, Jr., Senior District Judge.*
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melinda Haag, United States Attorney; Barbara J. Valliere, Chief, Appellate Division, Christina M. McCall, Anne M. Voigts (argued), Assistant United States Attorneys, San Francisco, California, for appellee United States of America.
for defendant: Patrick D. Robbins (argued), Mikael A. Abye, Jared R. Sams, Shearman & Sterling, LLP, San Francisco, California, for appellant Ethan Allen Berry.
Case Number: No. 10-10361

Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 6413 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ETHAN ALLEN BERRY, Defendant-A

December 15, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Consecutive Sentences Proper for Multiple Acts, Ruling Says

ALBANY - A divided Court of Appeals yesterday affirmed longer prison terms for two defendants who had been convicted of committing multiple crimes during single incidents. In one case, the C

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April 11, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Appeals Court Throws Out Claims of Negligence by Garden City Attorney

A former police union lawyer and labor negotiator convicted on corruption charges in 1998 cannot sue one of his former defense lawyers for failing to request that a lower interest rate be appl

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Curtis v. Brunsting

Publication Date: 2013-02-21
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Date Filed: 2013-01-09
Court: 5th Cir.
Judge: Patrick E. Higginbotham, Circuit Judge:
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Case Number: 12-20164

United States Court of Appeals Fifth CircuitLyle W. Cayce ClerkBefore HIGGINBOTHAM, SMITH, and ELROD, Circuit Judges.This appeal concerns the scope of the probate excepti

June 6, 2003 | New York Law Journal

Panel's Sharply Split Ruling Finds Jury Charge Coercive

A TRIAL judge's admonition to a deadlocked jury that "the point of the process is to get a result" was coercive and requires a new trial for the defendant charged with selling illegal drugs, a

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August 2, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

4th Court Says Expert Testimony in DWI Case Was Harmful Error

After a 12-year legal battle over the admission of a state expert's testimony extrapolating Raul Mata's Intoxilyzer results back to the time he was arrested for driving while intoxicated, San

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Midland Funding LLC DBA in New York, as Midland Funding of Delaware LLC, Claimant v. Jessica Tagliafferro, Defendant, 15781/11

Publication Date: 2011-10-07
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Court: Civil Court, Richmond County
Judge: Judge Philip S. Straniere
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant: *1 "Who are you? Who, who, who, who?"1
Case Number: 15781/11

Cite as: Midland Funding LLC v. Tagliafferro, 15781/11, NYLJ 1202517938453, at *1 (Civ., RI, Decided September 27, 2011)Judge Philip S. Stranierep cl