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April 17, 2006 |

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September 30, 2009 |

Changing the Channel: Cablevision Picks New GC From Own Ranks

When Cablevision Systems Corporation needed a general counsel to oversee all its legal affairs, it didn't have to look far. The company promoted one of its own: David Ellen. He replaces Jonathan Schwartz, who resigned in June after spending six years with the company. Ellen reports to CEO James Dolan. Ellen, 44, joined Cablevision in 2004 as senior vice president and general counsel for its cable, telecommunications, and programming divisions. In October 2008, he was promoted to executive vice president and general counsel for cable and communications.
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March 20, 2008 |

DAs Fight Mayor's Proposed Budget Reductions for 2009

New York City's top prosecutors decried the Bloomberg administration's plans to cut their discretionary spending by as much as 8 percent at a hearing yesterday before the City Council's public safety committee. Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau called the potential cuts "a disaster for all of the city's district attorneys." Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson said the cuts "make no sense" and create a "grave situation" in a matter of utmost concern - public safety.
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September 17, 2003 |

Bench Waits for Word in Probe of One of Their Own

The grand jury probing Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser called three of his bench colleagues to testify last week. After hearing five days of testimony from police, court employees and others last week, the grand jury is now in deliberations. Witnesses and their attorneys have said the jury seems to be probing Danser's handling of the DUI case and possible ticket fixing.
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October 28, 2010 |

Judge in Snowmobile Accident Case Enhances Damages by Factor of 10

Judges are known to enhance jury awards, but rarely do they multiply a verdict tenfold the way a New Jersey judge did this week. Judge Robert Brennan increased to $1 million a $100,000 award for pain and suffering from a snowmobile accident that cost plaintiff Dennis Mohr a leg. Mohr's lawyer says that the judge found the $100,000 award to be a "jury mistake" and that $1 million was the lowest fair and reasonable amount. Brennan gave defendant Yamaha Motor Co. 20 days to accept the additur or face a retrial of damages.
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September 29, 2006 |

New York Judge Finds Business Owner Must Testify Despite Anxiety

The owner of a sizable fast-food sandwich empire purportedly suffers from anxiety so severe that a recent court order to testify in a landlord-tenant dispute instead resulted in a trip to a Brooklyn emergency room.
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October 23, 2006 |

Reinstated Worker: Liability Shield Unjustified

A skeptical Supreme Court panel heard arguments Oct. 16 about why statements made to state police should — or should not — enjoy absolute immunity from a defamation suit, like statements made in court or during a legislature hearing.
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March 07, 2013 |

Judge Refuses to Cede to Delaware Litigation Over 'Iconic' Exchange

A class action filed by shareholders in the New York Stock Exchange over its planned merger with IntercontinentalExchange can go forward in New York alongside a nearly identical, earlier-filed class action in the Delaware Chancery Court, a Manhattan Commercial Division judge has ruled, decisively rejecting the "first filed" theory asserted by the defendants.
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December 06, 2011 |

Dechert not liable for $50 million in damages

An appeals court ruled Dechert is not liable for $50 million in damages in a deal faked by ex-attorney Marc S. Dreier.
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October 29, 2010 |

Fresh Del Monte brings suit for polluted land

After losing a lengthy legal battle in Hawaii, Del Monte Fresh Produce has made Miami-Dade Circuit Court the next stage in its fight for $14 million — one involving Kraft Foods, R.J. Reynolds and a decades-old environmental disaster.
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