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August 15, 2005 |

Former Houston Judge Sentenced to Community Service and Fined

Eric G. Andell, a former juvenile and appeals court judge in Houston, was sentenced on July 29 to a year of unsupervised probation on a misdemeanor criminal charge in connection with expense reports filed with the U.S. Department of Education. In April, Andell pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of conflict of interest based upon travel at government expense that included some travel for personal reasons. He was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and ordered to pay a $5000 fine.
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July 06, 2005 |

Judge Refuses to Delay Jury Selection in Vioxx Trial

A Texas judge on Tuesday declined to postpone jury selection in the nation's first state trial related to the painkiller Vioxx because he said he would not assume potential jurors were biased by pretrial publicity. Merck & Co. asked for a two-month delay to allow for a "cooling off" period for any bias that could taint a jury pool arising from news coverage of a lawsuit that state Attorney General Greg Abbott filed last week against the drug maker.
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December 22, 2003 |

Notable Quotes From 2003

Words of wisdom (and otherwise) from 2003.
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June 15, 2012 |

Two more judicial hopefuls' eligibility contested

The candidacies of attorneys hoping to unseat judges in the Augusta and Northern judicial circuits have been challenged, with protests asserting that each owes tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes and is thus ineligible for office.
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April 20, 2006 |

Litigators Watching Vioxx Trials Predict Merck Will Stay the Course

The split verdict in the first trial of a pair of long-term Vioxx users' cases against Merck & Co. supports its strategy of battling each claim rather than settling the more than 10,000 cases, litigators say. "Merck's clearly going to keep taking these cases into the courtroom," said Peter A. Bicks, a products liability litigator for Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe who is not involved in Vioxx litigation. Bicks said the length of jury deliberations suggested that "the case was close and winnable for Merck."
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August 01, 2003 |

Retractable v. Becton, Dickinson et al.

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October 02, 2001 |

3rd Circuit Bench Ruling Upholds Class Settlement Against Midland Group

In a rare move, a 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled from the bench to uphold a $1.75 million settlement in a class action suit, rejecting objections from lawyers who said it undermined their similar case, pending in Georgia. The ruling confirms that when two parallel, overlapping class action suits are filed in different federal courts, one can settle independently with the approval of just one judge.
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March 08, 2007 |

Deal Watch: Hospitals merge after successful operation

ARNALL GOLDEN Gregory and King Spalding were counsel on opposite sides of the deal in which Piedmont Healthcare acquired Newnan Hospital.Arnall Golden partner Marc L. Peterzell and associate Jennifer Downs Burgar were lead counsel to Newnan Hospital, with assistance from partners David B. McAlister on real estate issues and Sherman A.
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December 29, 2008 |

Dire economy is top Ga. story

ATLANTA AP - The vast economic crisis has left scores of Georgia's houses empty, its banks shuttered and sent thousands of its residents searching for jobs even as its unemployment rate balloons to heights not seen since Ronald Reagan was president.The nationwide recession was the top Georgia news story of 2008, according to state editors and news directors voting in The Associated Press' annual survey.
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November 17, 1999 |

Parks Song, King Speech Have Lawyer in the Middle

When he was a teen-ager in Montgomery, Ala., Joseph M. Beck watched Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. make history boycotting the city's buses. Now, as an intellectual property attorney, Beck is litigating two cases that will decide who profits from the King and Parks legacies. But Beck's work has an ironic twist. In one case he's defending the King family's right to control MLK's speeches; in the other, he's arguing Rosa Parks has no right to prevent her name from being used as the title of a rap song.
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