• August 3, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Sheriff's Officer's Admitted Sex Crime Does Not Trigger Ban on Public Office

    A sheriff's officer's off-duty sex crime was not directly related to his job performance and so does not require automatic forfeiture of his position, the state Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday by a

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  • March 1, 2004 | Legal Times

    Courtside: Decoding High Court Recusals

    When the Suprem t denied review in a little-noticed case involving the Republic of Croatia in October 2002, Croatia's lawyer in the case remembers doing a double take when he saw th

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  • March 15, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Salamander Squabble

    For cold-blooded creatures, the half-dozen or so salamanders found at the site of a proposed apartment complex in upscale Wilton, Conn., are generating plenty of heat.The animals

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  • April 20, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Marketplace

    Wilk Auslander, the law firm formerly known as Siller Wilk, is moving its offices to Times Square. The firm has signed a 10-year lease for 34,000 square feet at 1515 Broadway, between 44th a

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  • Mejia-Hernandez v. Holder

    Publication Date: 2011-01-27
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2011-01-27
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Alfred T. Goodwin and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges, and Jack Zouhary, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Knapp and Claire Cifuentes, Cifuentes Knapp & Associates, Los Angeles, California, for the petitioner.
    for defendant: Glen T. Jager, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for respondent. Mary Kenney, American Immigration Council, Washington, D.C., for the amicus.

    Case Number: No. 07-74277

    Cite as 11 C.D.O.S. 1230BERNARDINO EDUARDO MEJIA-HERNANDEZ, Petitioner, v.ERIC H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General,

  • May 8, 2001 | The Recorder

    Cyber-Risk

    Beset by more than a dozen lawsuits, San Diego-based MP3.com recently agreed to cough up more than $130 million to settle claims by record labels that the online music company violated copyrig

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  • April 24, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Outside Counsel

    Proposing Changes on Discretion in SentencingThe U.S. Sentencing Commission recently considered a proposed amendment to the Sentencing Guidelines that, if enacted, would return s

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  • November 17, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Goodwin Procter, Simpson ThacherCounsel on Hotel Deal La Quinta Corporation and La Quinta Properties, Inc., the Dallas-based hotel company, has been acquired f

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  • June 6, 2006 | The Recorder

    IP boutique loses 12 to Mintz Levin

    IN A CONTINUING EFFORT to push hard into the California market, Boston-based Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo snagged 12 attorneys from IP boutique Fish & Richardson, includi

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  • December 3, 2007 | The Recorder

    Sidebar

    CREATIVITY'S NO CURSE FOR LAWYER FOND OF VERSE A couple of times a week, about a thousand judges, lawyers, overseas Jesuit missionaries and assorted lovers of poetry open their

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