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May 06, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Vives, Plaintiff-Appellee v. City of New York, Defendants-Appellants

Municipality Cannot Be Held Liable For Enforcing Penal Law
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March 23, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Richards v. Ashcroft

Forgery Conviction Is 'Aggravated Felony', Within Meaning of of INA, for Removal Purposes
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August 23, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Lawyers 'Flying Blind' On Options Penalties

The stock-options backdating scandal has produced 16 criminal prosecutions, 100 corporate earnings restatements totaling $12.4 billion, and the disclosure that 220 companies have been subject to internal or federal investigations. It has also produced some very nervous white-collar criminal defense lawyers . . .
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January 14, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Judge Upholds Law Requiring Web Retailers to Collect Sales Tax

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August 06, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Despite Alleged Custody Breach, Court Says Girl Can Stay in U.S.

Southern District Judge Paul Engelmayer said the girl and her mother had successfully showed she had settled into her new environment, one of four possible defenses to the Hague Convention's International Child Abduction Remedies Act, and that returning her to Hungary would be harmful and disruptive.
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May 10, 2005 | New York Law Journal

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July 30, 2010 | New York Law Journal

State Judge Upholds Use of Martin Act in Pension Probe

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lewis Bart Stone yesterday left in place all but 13 counts of a 90-count indictment against Henry "Hank" Morris, a one-time political adviser to former state comptroller Alan Hevesi who earned millions in fees for steering to clients investments from a huge public employee pension fund administered solely by Mr. Hevesi.
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October 23, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Study Offers 'Poster Child' for Improved Indigent Defense

Five public defenders in one upstate county are being asked to do what should be the work of 12 attorneys, according to the first profile of indigent legal services in 10 New York counties commissioned by the New York State Defenders Association. The group will release the studies of the other nine counties in the coming weeks in the hope of persuading Governor Eliot Spitzer and the Legislature to fund the creation of a statewide agency to handle legal services for the poor.
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May 20, 2010 | New York Law Journal

New Merger Guidelines Downplay Need to Define Markets

In his antitrust column, Elai Katz, a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, discusses recent developments, including the circulation of revised merger guidelines, two decisions addressing market definition in merger cases and a Ninth Circuit holding that a product design improvement by a dominant firm, without more, did not constitute unlawful monopolization.
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February 21, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Openness and Accountability at Guant�namo

Jonathan Hafetz, associate counsel in the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, reviews Guant�namo detainee litigation and the decision in Associated Press v. U.S. Dept. of Defense, which could lead to a fuller account of the detentions at Guant�namo and provides an important precedent for limiting broad assertions of executive power in the "war on terrorism."
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