• June 28, 2002 | The Recorder

    Courting Controversy

    An appeal has already been announced. The next decision for defenders of the use of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is: where?The state and the local school dis

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  • January 25, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    State Senator, Name Partners Top Judicial Nominee List

    There's the head of the state's Innocence Project. A former president of the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. A recent congressional candidate. A top family law practitioner.

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  • April 25, 2011 | National Law Journal

    INADMISSIBLE

    TOO MUCH FAITH? KMIEC BEGS TO DIFFER Conservative legal scholar Douglas Kmiec may have seemed like an odd candidate in 2009 to be the U.S. ambassador to Malta, a

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  • October 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    KKR IPO KKR & Co. L.P. is going public in an unconventional way. The leveraged buyout powerhouse announced July 27 that it

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  • February 6, 2012 | The Associated Press

    Ga. court overturns assisted suicide restrictions

    ATLANTA AP - Georgia's top court on Monday struck down a state law designed to discourage assisted suicides after a legal battle brought by four members of a suicide group who said the law al

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  • Thompson v. Runnels

    Publication Date: 2013-01-24
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    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2013-01-24
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Jeremy D. Fogel, District Judge, Presiding Before: Alfred T. Goodwin, Marsha S. Berzon, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peggy S. Ruffra, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, San Francisco, California, for Appellee.
    for defendant: J. Bradley O'Connell, Assistant Director, First District Appellate Project, San Francisco, California, for Appellant.

    Case Number: No. 08-16186

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 888ANTWION E. THOMPSON, Petitioner-Appellant,v.D. L. RUNNELS, Warden; ATTORNEY GENERAL

  • January 31, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New Partners Hiscock & Barclay (Syracuse, N.Y.): John P. Lowe Jr. comes on board as partner in the firm's Rochester, N.Y., office. He serves as of counsel to CMS Bu

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  • June 5, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Pullman & Comley Absorbs Small Firm

    As clients demand a broader range of legal services, more law firms are adding practice groups -- even if that means gobbling up another entire firm.In the latest example, Pullman &

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  • October 2, 2009 |

    Reversal of Fortune?

    When Jon Leibowitz became chairman of the Federal Trade Commission this year, one of the first things he did was ask the agency’s economic analysts to take a close look at the pharmaceutical ind

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  • August 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Midlevel Survey Shows Associates Eyeing the Door

    When Arnold & Porter's director of professional development, Caren Ulrich Stacy, started working in law firm recruiting

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