Thomas Scheffey

March 14, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The letter said burn this. - Haiman Long Clein was so dementedly obsessed with his young legal associate Beth Ann Carpenter that he would do anything to keep her linked to him, contended defense lawyer Hugh F. Keefe, forcing Clein to read from a scorching Jan. 24, 1994, love letter.

By THOMAS SCHEFFEY Law Tribune Staff Writer

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May 17, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Litchfield Superior Court Judge Alexandra D. DiPentima handled the defamation case of Dr. Richard Munch against a Torrington hospital with the deftness of a surgeon.

By THOMAS SCHEFFEY Law Tribune Staff Writer

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October 16, 2001 | Law.com

Peter Butler, a mechanic with a safety-sensitive job in Connecticut's State Department of Transportation, got the word from his supervisor July 22, 1999, that "we're going for a drug test." From his employer's viewpoint, the results justified a notice of job termination a week later. Butler filed a union grievance and in the course of his arbitration found that a new procedure had been applied to him.

By Thomas Scheffey

5 minute read

January 25, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Connecticut and Washington lawyers for Arif Durrani, a Pakistani-born former arms dealer, are attempting to have his 1987 conviction overturned so he can rejoin his American wife and children in the U.S.

By THOMAS SCHEFFEY

5 minute read

July 29, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

The administrators for the estate of Anthony J. Vecchio IV don`t have to claim he was alive or viable to sue for wrongful death. That`s implied from the fact he was an 8 month-old fetus at the time he was stillborn, a Stamford, Conn. judge trial referee has ruled.

By Thomas Scheffey

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