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February 25, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Loss Causation Pleading Standard

Jacqueline Sailer and Brian P. Murray, partners at Murray, Frank & Sailer, write that there is no heightened pleading requirement for loss causation under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995; nonetheless, courts are grappling with the issue of what suffices to plead loss causation under the notice-pleading requirements.
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March 05, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Marketplace

Litigation boutique Kobre & Kim has signed a 15-year renewal and expansion lease at 800 Third Ave., its current location. Also, 80-88 Bruckner Blvd. in the Bronx was recently purchased by Atlantic Development Corp. for $17 million. The site is occupied by a one-story brick warehouse office building used by the seller Borda Products Inc., which will relocate to nearby Hunts Point.
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September 16, 2009 | New York Law Journal

International Banking

Kathleen A. Scott, counsel at Arnold & Porter, discusses recent statements by the Basel Committee of the Bank for International Settlements, the Group of 20 and the United States on proposals to permanently strengthen capital standards for banks and their holding companies. The process will take months, if not years, to accomplish, and there of course is no guarantee that it will forestall an international economic crisis in the future. However, these measures should at least build into the prudential supervisory process more trigger points when regulators must stop and assess a particular bank's condition and, if necessary, require remedial actions to be taken before a crisis occurs.
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June 25, 2004 | New York Law Journal

Tikhonova v. Ford Motor Company

Diplomatic Immunity of Driver Does Not Shield Vehicle Owner/Lessee From VTL �388 Suit
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May 04, 2006 | New York Law Journal

New Deals

In a merger worth $1.86 billion, Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., one of the world's largest suppliers of medical technologies and health-care information systems, has acquired Diagnostic Products Corporation, a provider of in-vitro and immunodiagnostic systems. Also, biosciences company Millipore Corporation has agreed to acquire Serologicals Corporation in a $1.4 billion all-cash deal.
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October 31, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Newsbriefs

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April 04, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Holtzman Amendment: A Commitment to Removal of Nazi Perpetrators

Lee Spielmann, an assistant regional counsel with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, writes that as the number of cases against accused Nazi perpetrators whom the government seeks to expel from the United States dwindles, a little-noticed ruling from the Sixth Circuit again underscores the ongoing importance and continuing vitality of the law under which the removal was mandated.
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July 13, 2009 | New York Law Journal

First Department Decisions in Conflict Over 'Other Insurance' Provisions

Jon D. Lichtenstein, a partner at Gordon & Silber, write that in Sport Rock Intern. Inc. v. American Cas. Co. of Reading, Pa. the First Department broadly addressed the appropriate allocation of defense costs between two primary liability insurance policies, where one policy's "other insurance" clause made it excess to the other. The majority consciously highlighted its conflict with another First Department decision that was recently decided, revealing some considerable friction among the judges, but nevertheless provided some clarity to insurance carriers and their counsel who wish to give effect to the "other insurance" provisions in their policies.
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August 08, 2003 | New York Law Journal

Habeas Writ Is For Custody Challenge Only

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June 29, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Christian Club Fails in Bid for Support by Law School

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