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Nearly 50 amicus briefs have piled up arguing for and against corporate liability for overseas human rights violations, as Quinn Emanuel's Kathleen Sullivan prepares to argue for Royal Dutch Shell in the first case of the new U.S. Supreme Court term.
Pittsburgh Shooter is a Mystery
Richard S. Baumhammers, the Pennsylvania, lawyer charged in the April 28 bias-related shooting deaths of five people of Asian, African and Jewish ancestry, seems to be a virtual unknown in legal circles to all but his law school classmates. Beyond the anti-immigrant views professed on his Web site, little is known of the man who graduated from Birmingham, Ala.'s Samford University Cumberland School of Law in 1992.Gender Differences Meet Tactical Utility
Sex matters. And how! That was the thesis of a recent symposium in Manhattan called "Women on the Move," sponsored by the New York State Bar Association. The half-day program drew a standing-room-only crowd. Lawyers being lawyers, several panelists spoke not only of valuing gender differences but of their tactical utility, especially in litigation procedure.$28 Billion Smoker Award Could Be Cut
A Los Angeles jury on Friday returned a record $28 billion punitive damages award against Philip Morris for Betty Bullock, a Newport Beach, Calif., woman suffering from lung cancer that has spread to her liver. The award shows that Californians are willing to hit cigarette makers in the pocketbook, but attorneys and academics who monitor tobacco litigation say they don't expect the award to stand.State AI Legislation Is on the Move in 2024
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