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February 25, 2002 |

Trial Practice

T he dogs of our childhood were poodles, cocker spaniels and collies. Someho w, they have evolved into pit bulls, rottweilers and Presa Canarios. It is thus not surprising that there have been many incidents in the news lately about brutal attacks by dogs. Recently, we were all shocked and saddened by the savage attack which resulted in the death of Diane Whipple in California. She was killed by a vicious dog described as a member of a breed known as Presa Canario, which had allegedly been bred and trained
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May 05, 2006 |

Missing windowpane proves costly for landlord

Correction appended: See below for a correction to this story.By Greg Land, Staff ReporterA missing windowpane has cost the owners of an apartment complex $1 million.When Joceyline Banks signed a lease for a unit at the Creekside and Spring Valley Apartments in January 2001, she asked the management to replace a missing ground-floor windowpane, according to her lawyer, Jonathan P.
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July 16, 2012 |

Newsmakers

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September 21, 2012 |

Fictitious Entities Can Be Denied Standing

A pair of recent Connecticut Appellate Court decisions issued this past summer highlights the pitfalls of doing business using trade names in Connecticut and the importance of naming the proper party as plaintiff in litigation.
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March 21, 2003 |

DERGARABEDIAN v. COHEN

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October 18, 2004 |

Waiver of Arguments

As most lawyers know, the general rule that an appellate court will not consider an argument raised for the first time on appeal is riddled with exceptions and ambiguities. The Supreme Court made sure of that. The unbridled discretion to consider or reject new arguments on appeal has led one scholar to nickname it the "gorilla rule," based on the well-known riddle that asks where an 800-pound gorilla sleeps�anywhere it wants.
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February 16, 2000 |

Victims of Terrorists in Egypt May Sue in N.Y.

The families of American victims of a hotel shooting in Egypt in 1993 may press their personal injury and wrongful death claims in New York, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. Finding a lower court gave too little weight to the emotional toll the families would suffer if forced to sue in Egypt, the court reinstated a case that had been dismissed for forum non conveniens.
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August 01, 2005 |

Davis v. Spring Branch Medical Center Inc.

The expert's opinion that the quality of care at the nursing home "robbed Ms. Davis of quality of life, and hastened the loss of her legs" is conclusory.
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October 06, 2003 |

State v. Mechler

Because the Court of Criminal Appeals specifically left open the question of whether retrograde extrapolation must accompany Intoxilizer results and Mata concerned the admissibility of expert testimony rather than test results, the court finds that Mata is inapplicable to the issues raised in the instant case. The trial judge erred in suppressing Intoxilizer results based on Mata.
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