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October 28, 2002 |

Civil Actions

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September 20, 2004 |

Four Votes for the Ten Commandments?

The U.S. Supreme Court convenes in a closed conference Sept. 27 to consider more than 1,900 new cases that have piled up on its doorsteps over the summer. Leading the list that might be granted review are several First Amendment establishment clause disputes involving the religious rights of prison inmates and Ten Commandments displays on public property?
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Railroads Catch a Break with Dismissal of Oxbow Antitrust Suit
Publication Date: 2013-02-26
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Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway chipped away at their significant antitrust exposure on Tuesday, fending off a lawsuit brought by the mining company Oxbow Carbon & Minerals.

A Patent Infringement Defendant Transfers into East Texas? Yes, but It's Complicated
Publication Date: 2009-06-22
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When we first heard that Juniper Network's lawyers had moved to transfer a patent infringement suit brought against Juniper by GraphOn from Virginia to Texas, we wondered if they were crazy. Then we found out about the elaborate game of venue hopscotch they're playing. Crazy like a fox, maybe.

October 27, 2004 |

Georgia Law School One Step Closer to Accreditation

Atlanta's John Marshall Law School has cleared a major hurdle in its long effort to win accreditation from the American Bar Association. The school's pass rate for first-time takers of the July bar exam was 81 percent for the school's 16 new graduates, who are the first products of Dean John E. Ryan's three-year tenure. The school's overall first-time pass rate was 72 percent.
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California AG Alleges State Street Fraud in Whistle-Blower Suit
Publication Date: 2009-10-20
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Why should Andrew Cuomo have all the fun? On Tuesday, California attorney general Jerry Brown lashed out at another bank, accusing State Street of defrauding two large pension funds in a $200 million qui tam suit.

Did Ignored Madoff Tipster Spark N.Y. Prosecutors' Suits Against Bank of New York Mellon over Forex Trades?
Publication Date: 2011-10-05
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We've all heard how financial regulators ignored Harry Markopolos's warnings until Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme finally collapsed under its own weight. But until Tuesday, when federal and state prosecutors in Manhattan filed suits accusing Bank of New York Mellon of gouging banks and pension funds out of billions of dollars, we'd forgotten about another apparent Markopolos project: whistleblower litigation against BoNY and State Street Corp. over the way they handle foreign exchange trades.

July 31, 2008 |

Associates Survey 2008

To find out how Midlevel associates rate their firms as workplaces, our annual midlevel survey examined 12 areas that contribute to job satisfaction. They include relations with partners and other associates, the interest and satisfaction level asso-ciates have in their work, training and guidance, policy on billables, management openness about firm strategies and partnership chances, the firm?s attitude toward pro bono work, compensation and benefits, and the respondents? inclination to stay at their firm for at least two more years. Respondents graded their firms on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest score. On this chart, firms with ten or more responses are ranked by their averages on those questions. Averages include responses from all participating of-fices. For definitions of national and international firms, and for other details, see our methodology
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October 20, 1999 |

Counsel Comes South To Test Fairness in Ga. Death Cases

Georgia is the only state that does not mandate that the condemned have a right to lawyers for the habeas process. The idea behind representation is to ensure death row inmates' trials and sentencing meet constitutional standards of fairness before they are put to death. If the U.S. Supreme Court declared such a right, states would be forced to ensure that condemned inmates have competent legal representation for their habeas petitions. But the court recently turned downed the chance to make that ruling.
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March 08, 2001 |

Georgia Civil RICO Case Causes Furor

Businessman David L. Pimper has become the latest target of an increasingly popular tool of Georgia's local prosecutors: a civil RICO complaint. Prosecutors contend the state's RICO act is the best tool to put criminals out of business. But defense lawyers say civil RICO actions can violate due process, strip targets of the means to defend themselves, and be used as economic leverage to exact guilty pleas.
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