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January 14, 2013 |

CES 2013: GlobaTrac Device Can Help Find Lost Luggage

Early buzz at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas is focusing on Samsung's transparent television but that news may be eclipsed by the startup GlobaTrac's device to track your luggage.
4 minute read
June 08, 1999 |

Exorcising a Cold War Ghost

In spite of this spring's baseball diplomacy and an easing of the trade embargo, most Americans still cannot visit Cuba or do business there, says attorney George Kraw.
5 minute read
June 06, 2011 |

11th Circuit cases reflect the times in Miami and the nation over the last century

With judges presiding over real estate boom time cases of swindled property owners, Prohibition-era gambling crimes and the constitutionality of equal protection laws, the moral and social issues addressed within the 11th Judicial Circuit over the last 100 years in many ways tell the story not only of Miami, but the entire nation.
14 minute read
August 17, 2010 |

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Elected and Appointed Abbe F. Fletman, a shareholder with Flaster Greenberg, was reappointed for a second one-year term as co-director of division VI for the American Bar Association's litigation section.
6 minute read
April 30, 2007 |

Civil Actions

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April 10, 2009 |

In Defense of AIG Employees

Kenneth P. Thompson and Andrew S. Goodstadt, partners at Thompson Wigdor & Gilly who represent almost 20 AIG employees in the financial products division who received the retention payments that have sparked a national furor write that it has been nearly impossible to open a newspaper, turn on the television or even attend a social function without being exposed to the public anger over AIG employees who recently received a total of $165 million in "bonuses." However, they say, the public's uproar over these payments, which has been fueled by the media and elected officials, is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of these payments, namely, that they are "bonuses" in the conventional sense and money rewarding employees for the failure of a bankrupt company.
11 minute read
March 15, 2002 |

Madness over a Muncie, Ind., museum jars the senses

William W. Bedsworth Henry David Thoreau once said, "It is not worthwhile to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar." It's a good thing Thoreau didn't know my mother. If he had, he never would have spent all that time hanging out at Walden Pond. He would have gone to Zanzibar, seen the cats, and dropped the writing thing like a hot rock.
8 minute read
December 28, 2012 |

Brooklyn Prep School Settles Claims Over Alleged Sex Abuse Cover-Up

Poly Prep Country Day School and the attorney for the 12 plaintiffs confirmed in a joint announcement that the parties had reached a settlement in the high-profile federal lawsuit stemming from the conduct of coach Philip Foglietta, who died in 1998 after working at the school for 25 years.
4 minute read
July 18, 2006 |

CEO of Offshore Gambling Web Site Charged

David Carruthers, whom authorities say runs an offshore gambling company that illegally takes bets from U.S. residents, was ordered held in custody Monday after appearing in federal district court. BetonSports took bets on an Internet site and over a toll-free telephone line, federal prosecutor Mark Nichols said. Internet gambling has become a political issue with last week's passage of a House bill to prevent American banks and creditors from making payments to online gambling sites.
3 minute read
June 25, 2013 |

9th Circuit Hears Hotel Guest Privacy Case

If the court strikes down an L.A. ordinance requiring local hotels to keep guest information available for inspection for 90 days, it would be the second en banc decision this year blocking a warrantless search program.
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