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July 27, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Another Big Hitter Leaves The Bench

Middletown Superior Court Judge Robert Holzberg, whose negotiating skills helped settle dozens of lawsuits stemming from the Kleen Energy gas explosion and the St. Francis Hospital child sex abuse scandal, is resigning from the bench to become a partner and mediator at Pullman & Comley's Hartford office.
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July 06, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Ex-Prosecutor Shows Very Little Discretion

Allison Leotta, who resigned in June 2011 from her government job to write full time, talked to the National Law Journal, which shares a corporate parent with the Connecticut Law Tribune, about the inspiration behind her novels and the blog in which she critiques crime shows. Her remarks have been edited for length and clarity.
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October 01, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Supremes Load Up On Employment Cases

Besides adding such high-profile issues as the constitutionality of lethal injection executions and voter ID laws to its docket, the U.S. Supreme Court ensured, through its latest grants of review, what is likely to be a "banner" year for labor and employment law.
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September 03, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Telling A Judge He Is Wrong

Stamford Superior Court Judge John Redmond Downey's misapprehension over the law concerning immigrants' rights to access courts proved fatal to his Appellate Court nomination, and now has left the bar with a lingering question: how can judges be subtly told they're wrong. Or maybe not so subtly.
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July 03, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

School Funding Remedy Overdue

It`s no secret that Connecticut`s property tax system is insufficient to support public education. Overburdened taxpayers reject local budgets. Contracted services outpace the inflation rate. Mold infestation shuts down schools. Flat budgets result in program cuts.
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August 06, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Helping Big Businesses Give Away Big Bucks

So you walk into a Starbucks and see details of a promotion that says for every cup of coffee you purchase, the chain will donate five cents to a particular charity. These charitable endeavors — called commercial co-ventures — have become big business. That's where Robert Laplaca, of Levett Rockwood in Westport, comes in.
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May 05, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A Total System Failure

There has been much talk of course about the stunning reversal of fortune for the plaintiff in Pelletier v. Sordoni/Skanska upon the Connecticut Supreme Court's overturn of the judgment. The amount at stake, from a jury's verdict and accrued interest, totaled more than $41 million. That is a massive amount of money. The plaintiff, a construction worker severely injured by a falling beam, must have been devastated by this outcome. News of it must have hit his counsel, presumably on contingency, right in the pit of the stomach. Verdicts of that height come once in a lifetime and, for most personal injury lawyers, never.
4 minute read
November 12, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Typing Error May Void Drug Conviction

A Middletown man might escape conviction, even after police found more than 7 pounds of marijuana at his house. He can thank a faulty arrest warrant and an unforgiving Appellate Court for his possible good fortune. Police agencies contacted by the iLaw Tribune/i were not concerned by the decision. Perhaps that's because they were unaware of it.
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November 02, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Police Shooting Case Ends In Defense Verdict

Douglas Brown et al. v. City of Bridgeport et al.: In a case involving an unusual set of circumstances, including a misidentified suspect, a Bridgeport police officer who shot an unarmed man in the back following a chase was cleared of wrongdoing by a jury after a month-long trial.
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May 19, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Making A Full-Time Commitment

Louis O. Roy Jr. of Avon said he closely followed the legislature's special session in January, when lawmakers passed a sweeping criminal justice reform bill in response to last July's triple murder in Cheshire.
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