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March 04, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Hollywood Offers Revisionist History In 'Lincoln' Film

Connecticut U.S. Representative Joe Courtney, a Democrat, slams "Lincoln" writer and the film's director, Steven Spielberg, and demands a public retraction and notice of correction to future film-watchers. In Courtney's mind, the mere suggestion that Connecticut was an anti-Lincoln, slavery-tolerant territory of indifferent Yankees is an outrage. Courtney's opportunistic grandstanding aside, he is right to complain.
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May 10, 2010 | Connecticut Law Tribune

More Than One Way To Help Lawyers

This week the Law Tribune holds its annual Honors Night awards event. Among the honorees is Attorney William C. Leary, who will receive the Service to the Profession Award. Years back, Leary was instrumental in launching the Connecticut Bar Association's Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers program, an initiative that aimed to provide resources and support for lawyers struggling with alcohol and drug addiction, depression and other mental health issues.
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February 08, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Debt Reduction Attorney Wins Partial Victory

Heidi Saas was a Bridgeport solo who, on occasion, served as a Connecticut representative for a Maryland law firm that helps clients negotiate down their credit card debt.
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January 25, 2010 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Fit To Practice

As I walked across the park to court last week, I noticed that my arms were aching. I was carrying a file with me to a status conference, which was nothing unusual, as I have not yet made the obligatory leap to microchip mania and am piling up paper at a furious rate. The case in which the status conference was scheduled had only been pending since 2004, so there were a mere three pleadings folders, about four inches of correspondence, and several legal pads, just in case I had an idea for a column while sitting on the bench in front of caseflow.
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July 11, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Neighbors Fed Up With Industrial Noise Get $300,000

Kenneth Tulle, et al v. Connecticut Container Corporation: A group of five homeowners from North Haven who were subjected to years of "a constant and annoying noise" from a nearby cardboard box factory have been awarded $300,000 for the private nuisance following a bench trial.
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March 03, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Death Row Inmates Win A Court Date

A judicial ruling last week did not overturn Connecticut's death penalty law or halt anyone's execution. But it did guarantee that everyone on the state's death row will have another day in court.
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December 14, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The Challenges Of Technological Competence

I heard a wonderful speaker the other day, a fellow named John T. Broderick, Jr., who is the retired chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court and is now a law school dean. Justice Broderick posited that if a lawyer from the 19th century were to be magically dropped into a modern courtroom, he could quickly master the new environment and start trying a case.
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November 21, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Sentencing In Armored Car Case Puts Spotlight On Militant Group

The year was 1985 and the federal courthouse in Hartford was on the world stage. One by one, members of a Puerto Rican independence group were brought before judges, accused of a brazen heist that netted $7.1 million and culminated years of anti-American atttacks.
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November 30, 2009 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Collection Lawyers Fleeced In Check Scams

At least two sizeable Connecticut law firms have fallen victim to sophisticated international swindlers posing as major European or Chinese companies in need of debt collection help. The initial inquiry is often in an e-mail, which offers the law firm a chance to work for a large foreign corporation with several million dollars in unpaid bills in the U.S. An attorney signs a formal-looking retainer agreement. Suddenly, he receives a six-figure "debt payment" sent by one of the so-called client's customers, in the form of an authentic-looking bank check.
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February 08, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Court Makes Rare Reversal In Murder Case

The state's highest court has reversed the murder conviction of a man charged in connection with a home invasion robbery that left a man dead.
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