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December 14, 2006 |

Academics Appointed as Special Masters to Handle 9/11 Workers' Comp Cases

Faced with an avalanche of claims by workers who suffered respiratory illness while cleaning up the World Trade Center site after Sept. 11, Southern District of New York Judge Alvin Hellerstein has appointed two special masters to organize the cases, which plaintiffs lawyers say could eventually number as many as 11,000. Hellerstein named to the positions Aaron D. Twerski, dean of Hofstra University School of Law and James A. Henderson Jr., a professor of Cornell Law School.
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October 02, 2007 |

Panel Considers Immunity Issue On WTC Claims

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June 25, 2003 |

Participation in Racist Float Ruled to Be Protected Speech

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the heads of the police and fire departments violated the First Amendment when they fired a police officer and two firefighters for participating in a racist float during a 1998 Labor Day parade in Broad Channel, Queens, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The judge found that the men's participation in the float, which was an alleged parody of African-American integration into the predominantly white community, "constituted speech on a matter of public concern."
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July 30, 2007 |

Ford Can't Claim 'Federal Officer' Status to Move Landfill Suit to Federal Court

Ford Motor Co. and other defendants, in a suit over landfill contamination, can't claim they were akin to "federal officers" in their efforts to comply with environmental consent orders, a federal judge says. Judge Joel Pisano of the District of New Jersey rebuffed Ford's attempt to rely on a statute that allows suits against U.S. agency officials and those acting under them to be removed to federal court. The ruling is a boon for those seeking friendlier state-court forums for environmental damages claims.
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January 23, 2013 |

Client 'Satisfaction' and Legal Malpractice

Andrew Lavoott Bluestone, an attorney specializing in legal malpractice litigation, discusses a novel defense in malpractice actions arising from matrimonial cases: that the client's often naive statement that he or she is satisfied with the conduct of counsel at an on-the-record settlement immunizes the attorney.
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October 27, 2005 |

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October 26, 2005 |

Jurors Ponder Liability for 1993 WTC Bombing

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January 29, 2003 |

N.Y. AG's Office Opposes Judge Over Tobacco Fees Ruling

The New York attorney general's office is challenging Justice Charles E. Ramos' appointment of "independent counsel" in the wake of the office's refusal to defend Ramos' decision to examine a $625 million attorney fees award for the state's case against the tobacco industry. The underlying decision, which is on appeal, is the judge's ruling that he had jurisdiction to inquire into whether the fee award was reasonable.
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