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October 14, 2013 | National Law Journal

DOJ Wins Subpoena Skirmish

The owner of the website "Socialsecurity.com" must comply with a federal government subpoena for information about the site's ownership and views from the public, a federal trial judge ruled.
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March 27, 2006 | National Law Journal

Blogs: An Emerging Issue

Blogs have introduced significant new elements in labor and employment law. Inexplicably, despite the fact that blogs are generally open to anyone who has access to the Internet, bloggers often consider what they write somehow to be private and anonymous.
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November 22, 2004 | National Law Journal

Limits set on arguments during trial

For fear of their cases being challenged on grounds of misconduct, the language used in the courtroom by prosecutors has become further inhibited as judges' opinions draw new limits.
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June 01, 2007 | National Law Journal

Feds charge Ernst & Young partners with tax fraud plot

Four Ernst & Young partners, one of whom is a former top IRS lawyer, reduced taxes for Americans making $10 million or more with a fraud that used the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to disguise their lies, according to an indictment charging the men. The four current and former partners of the giant accounting firm were arrested Wednesday and charged with fraud and other crimes relating to tax shelters that were devised beginning in early 1998, the indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court said.
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March 06, 2006 | National Law Journal

IN BRIEF

Seward & Kissel sued on advice to hedge fund- and other news briefs.
4 minute read
April 06, 2007 | National Law Journal

Trade pact news spurs U.S. law firms' interest in South Korea

If the free trade agreement announced Monday between the U.S. and South Korea becomes law, American law firms could have offices in that country as early as next year. But once the trade pact is ratified, firms still working on aggressive expansions into China and Japan will have to consider how, and whether, South Korea fits into their strategies.
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September 16, 2013 | National Law Journal

Southern California Edison Co.

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April 09, 2012 | National Law Journal

Dodgers removing impediments to reorganization plan and sale

The Los Angeles Dodgers appeared to have made progress toward clearing up a couple of last-minute money disputes ahead of an April 13 hearing to confirm a bankruptcy reorganization plan that provides for selling the team for $2 billion.
3 minute read
October 04, 2006 | National Law Journal

Condition Critical

Many local courthouses across the nation are unsafe and overcrowded, and people working in them allege that long-neglected facilities are making them sick with everything from respiratory problems to cancer.
10 minute read
March 28, 2007 | National Law Journal

New book sounds alarm on conservative High Court

For most Supreme Court watchers, the jury is still out on how conservative the Roberts Court will be. However, in his new book, "The Next 25 Years: The New Supreme Court and What It Means for Americans," First Amendment attorney and legal analyst Martin Garbus proclaims the current justices guilty as charged for upending the Bill of Rights and turning back the constitutional clock. Supreme Court correspondent Tony Mauro takes issue with some of Garbus' facts -- and with his predictions of doom.
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