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May 24, 2000 |

Sunoco GC Foltz to Retire After 20 Years

Ever since he pumped gas and sold kerosene at his parents' country grocery store in Honey Creek, Ind., a half century ago, Jack Foltz has been connected to the oil business. That link will come to an official end this month as Foltz retires as vice president and general counsel of Philadelphia-based Sunoco Inc. after 20 years with the company and almost four decades as an in-house attorney at oil companies.
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December 01, 2009 |

'Iqbal' Derails Tubercular Attorney's Privacy Complaint

Attorney Andrew Speaker, who made news when he took a trans-Atlantic flight while infected with a rare strain of tuberculosis, probably lost his bid to hold the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention liable for federal privacy act violations based on recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, which changed the standard for dismissal on the eve of his filing. According to a Georgia federal judge's ruling, Speaker failed to meet that standard, which limits notice pleadings by requiring them to contain specific factual allegations.
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September 19, 2011 |

A 'legend' to law firms, data miner reclaims field

Hank Asher-high school dropout, cyberpioneer, friend to law enforcers, enemy to child predators, nemesis of privacy advocates, ex-cocaine smuggler-is back in the business of finding almost everything that's known about anyone in the U.S. Law enforcement applauds Asher for his help in catching child predators.
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June 07, 2007 |

Top 10 Examples of Workplace Wackiness

Gerald Skoning, a senior partner at Chicago's Seyfarth Shaw, writes that despite the prolonged national agony over the war in Iraq, there was reason to smile in 2006. He presents a survey of the top 10 bizarre employment law situations from last year, which provides a potpourri of workplace wackiness. The high achievers include one case where an employer received damages from a former employee who did no work for months while pretending his son had cancer.
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May 10, 2000 |

D.C. Courts Seek $30M Increase

D.C. court leaders, in the midst of one of the most trying times in the court's history, have asked Congress for nearly $165 million to fund the local judiciary next year. This after two years of the courts trying to get a pay raise for nonjudicial staff. Court leaders argue that the raise is necessary in order to put their employees' salaries on par with those who work for federal agencies or courts.
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July 16, 2007 |

Baseball Fan Living His Dream as General Counsel for Pirates

More than four out of five U.S. workers are not working at their dream jobs, according to a survey released earlier this year by CareerBuilder.com. But Larry Silverman is living his dream. Silverman has been a Pittsburgh Pirates fan all his life and is now working for the baseball team he grew up rooting for. "While I cannot play on the field, I can help the general manager put together a team that will compete and hopefully win a championship," he says.
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December 01, 2008 |

Obama announces Clinton, Gates for Cabinet

CHICAGO AP -President-elect Barack Obama picked a national security team headed by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bush administration holdover Robert Gates on Monday, and said he wants to consult with military commanders before settling on a firm timetable to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq.Obama said a newly completed agreement between Iraq and the Bush administration covering U.
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November 29, 1999 |

Untangling the ADA's Web

Since the ADA's passage in 1990, most of the litigation under its employment provisions have dwelled on the definition of disability, which the Act itself defines. Though the ADA was intended to provide a "clear . . . national mandate" and "consistent, enforceable standards," the drafters of the law and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's enforcement regulations have all but guaranteed confusion.
9 minute read
April 06, 2010 |

High court may hold key for vaccine foes

In spite of recent courtroom losses, parents who blame their children's autism at least in part on childhood vaccines say their legal battle is far from over."We've always been in it to the very end," said Theresa Cedillo of Yuma, Ariz., whose autistic daughter Michelle became the focus of a key test case at the U.
3 minute read
May 14, 2012 |

Brown Cuts $544 Million from Court Budget

Saying courts have been largely spared in past cycles, the governor sweeps trial court reserves and construction funds into the state's general fund.
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