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March 14, 2012 |

Coalition Offers $25K to Corporate Political Donation Whistleblower

A group called Americans United for Change is offering $25,000 to the first employee who blows the whistle on secret corporate Super PAC contributions that aim to influence the 2012 U.S. elections.
3 minute read
June 27, 2011 |

The Pentagon Papers Case at 40

David Rudenstine, the Sheldon E. Solow Professor of Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, writes: In the Pentagon Papers frenetic litigation, U.S. District Judge Murray I. Gurfein soundly balanced a respect for the executive branch's responsibilities in national security cases with his responsibility to uphold the rule of law, striking a balance that remains highly relevant today.
8 minute read
May 16, 2011 |

Economic claims against Toyota pass test

A federal judge has ruled that class claims for economic damages against Toyota Motor Corp. in the sudden, unintended acceleration multidistrict litigation can go forward based on the injuries alleged.
4 minute read
June 19, 2009 |

Executive Compensation

Joseph E. Bachelder III, a partner in the Law Offices of Joseph E. Bachelder, writes that TARP has impacted significantly on executive pay at top levels of companies in the financial services industry that have received TARP aid. Several bills pending in Congress, he adds, would expand regulation of executive pay at companies receiving TARP aid, and other pending legislation would impose regulations on executive pay at public companies generally.
14 minute read
February 07, 2005 |

Politics of Environmental Policy

Governmental policies designed to promote environment protection involve much more than just formulating and implementing pollution control strategies. They have significant political implications, as well.
6 minute read
February 10, 2009 |

Obama Backs State Secrets Defense

A DOJ lawyer told a Ninth Circuit panel that the government's position — that it can't be sued for allegedly kidnapping and torturing terror suspects — had been "thoroughly vetted" by the president.
3 minute read
April 27, 2012 |

Ralph...Has Left the Building

Orrick's iconoclastic leader—who is known as much for his failed merger attempts as for his vision—prepares to step down.
18 minute read
January 02, 2002 |

LOBBYING IN NEW YORK: Report from Albany Keeping the Focus on Justice

A s the Association of the Bar of the City of New York looks ahead to its 2002 wish list of legislative reform in Albany, the events of Sept. 11 are foremost on our minds. For every New Yorker, and every American, in one single day all of our previous priorities and expectations were suddenly in question.
5 minute read
June 01, 2004 |

Science in the Courtroom

Sonia E. Miller, a Manhattan attorney, legal analyst in science and technology, and founder and president of the Converging Technologies Bar Association, asks, "Are you the proprietor of your body, or merely its trustee?"
8 minute read

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