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October 30, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Amputee awaits high court, wants musical glow back

MARSHFIELD, Vt. AP - When Diana Levine turned 63 recently, her daughter made her a birthday card, drawing on Greek mythology with an illustration of Diana the Huntress, her bow string drawn taut, an arrow ready to fly.But the arm pulling at the bowstring was amputated below the elbow - just like Diana Levine's - and the target was labeled the "Wyeth monster.
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August 01, 2013 | National Law Journal

Judge: Fed 'Inappropriately' Inflated Debit Card Fees

A federal judge on Wednesday struck down federal regulations on debit-card transaction fees, finding that the Federal Reserve adopted rules that "inappropriately" inflated fees by billions of dollars.
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June 16, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Lawyer Discipline: High court dismisses disciplinary action

The Supreme Court of Georgia issued the following decision Monday disciplining a member of the State Bar of Georgia:S09Y0476. IN THE MATTER OF M. FRANCIS STUBBS.PER CURIAM.This matter is before the Court on the Report and Recommendation of the Review Panel arising out of the Notice of Reciprocal Discipline sent by the State Bar to respondent M.
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January 13, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Alone at the top

Atlanta bankruptcy and foreclosure lawyer Mathew A. Schuh is on top of the world. And it's not because business is booming-although it is.Schuh recently won the Match Play Club Championship at Druid Hills Golf Club, defeating attorney G. Douglas Dillard 1-up in the title match."I'm pretty jazzed," said Schuh, the last man standing in the tournament that began with 104 competitors.
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May 04, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Defense contractors to face off in court

Today in federal court in Atlanta two of the largest defense contractors in the world will go head to head in a trial over the alleged misappropriation of trade secrets associated with the design and construction of an anti-submarine bomber used by navies around the world. The trial is the culmination of more than four years of litigation in a suit pitting the world's largest international defense contractor, Lockheed Martin Corp.
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June 16, 2009 | Daily Report Online

UBS' tax deals shredded U.S. patience with gall

Life might have rocked along pleasantly enough for Steven Michael Rubinstein, his $3 million home and his fat Swiss bank account if UBS AG hadn't courted customers like him with such zeal.But the bank, in essence, was selling tax evasion as a service, and when one of its billionaire customers got fingered for tax fraud, he lifted the veil on UBS' dirty business.
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November 13, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Master of the pool

Former Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Irwin W. Stolz Jr. 1972-77 is beginning his 21st year of competition in Masters Swimming. A partner in the Athens firm, Winburn, Lewis Stolz, the 78-year-old former judge hold more than 35 Georgia Masters Swimming records. He has won four individual National Championships and was ranked in the top 10 worldwide in five events in 2004.
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January 07, 2002 | Daily Report Online

Judge Urged to Mediate End of Suit Claiming Insurer Fraud

Trisha [email protected] years of litigation, including a trip to the Georgia Court of Appeals and a change of venue, is enough, say defense lawyers for State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance. The company's Powell, Goldstein, Frazer Murphy team wants Fulton State Court Judge M. Gino Brogdon to step in and mediate a settlement in a long-running fraud and racketeering suit against the insurer.
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June 23, 2010 | Daily Report Online

High court: Hundreds of labor cases invalid

The vacancy-plagued National Labor Relations Board did not have authority to issue nearly 600 decisions in the last two years with only two board members, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.In New Process Steel v. National Labor Relations Board, a 5-4 court upended the NLRB's attempt, dating back to 2007, to continue functioning when it foresaw that its membership was in imminent danger of dropping from four to two.
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March 20, 2002 | Daily Report Online

How to save the TV law drama from going the way of the dinosaur

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