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May 10, 2006 |

Hollywood litigator Fields ducks Pellicano net

Like many of his clients, Bertram Fields has become tabloid fodder: Magazines, TV and newspapers point out nearly every week that the Hollywood litigator is a key target in the ongoing probe of notorious private eye Anthony Pellicano. Yet the frequent Pellicano client has remained beyond prosecutors' grasp despite his long and well-publicized relationship with the detective.
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June 14, 2005 |

Long Island: Briefly Noted

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July 21, 2009 |

Huppert v. City of Pittsburgh

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December 10, 2012 |

What's Discussed Here, Stays Here

Jennifer Kennedy Park, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, and Matthew M. Bunda and Aaron Krieger, associates with the firm, write: When does friendship become a source of securities fraud liability? According to a recent decision in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, it happens when two friends who met through Alcoholics Anonymous talk about work and one of them trades on information learned in those conversations.
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December 02, 2002 |

High Court Protects Internet Trash Talk

Jonathan Ringel [email protected] Richmond [email protected] critical issues as to how defamation law will be applied to the Internet, the Georgia Supreme Court has ruled against a waste management executive called a "thief" and "crook" on a Yahoo message board.The messages were posted by Crisp County hog farmer Bruce Mathis, who also told Yahoo readers that the executive, Thomas C.
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January 26, 2009 |

Torture, Pornography and Due Process

The tragedy of Sept. 11 should never be forgotten. However, we may not remember or no longer consider justified the steps that were immediately taken in the months that followed so as to strengthen security at the cost of some of our previously enjoyed freedoms.
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January 03, 2012 |

States look to cash in on online lottery sales

Buying a lottery ticket may soon be no more difficult than clicking a computer mouse, and U.S. states grappling with budget deficits are seeking to cash in. From California to New York, lotteries that already account for $56 billion in annual sales are considering expanding to the Internet after the U.S. Justice Department ruled that it's legal to sell tickets on the Web to local residents.
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August 11, 2003 |

Defense Offensive

Decrying limits placed on military tribunal defense lawyers, ABA President Alfred Carlton Jr. unveiled a proposal Friday urging the government to revise some of its rules for the proceedings. The proposal seeks to ensure that private attorneys who represent so-called enemy combatants are guaranteed certain due process rights, including attorney-client privilege and full access to information necessary to the defense.
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November 08, 2011 |

Judge Blocks First Party, UIM Benefits After Broker Changes Policy

A Southeastern Pennsylvania business owner and his family may not collect first party and underinsured motorist benefits from their insurer, a Montgomery County judge has ruled, after a broker changed their underlying insurance policy from "individual" to "corporate," accidentally barring such coverage for a family.
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November 22, 2011 |

Commonality of Technology as a Defense

In his Criminal Law column, Ken Strutin, director of legal information services at the New York State Defenders Association, discusses how rapidly evolving technologies may be prosecuted and litigated under rapidly obsolescent penal laws, and how omnipresence would be the safest defense in such cases.
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