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July 02, 2007 |

Civil Actions

3 minute read
December 13, 2006 |

N.Y. Law Firm Makes Bells Toll for Toll Booths

Sometimes 75 cents is all it takes to get an attorney in a fighting mood. For years, Michael Powers, a partner with 170-attorney Phillips Lytle in Buffalo, N.Y., said that he had been offended by the toll booth on Interstate Highway 190, which charged 75 cents to motorists entering the city. When a local businessman came to him and asked him if there was a legal basis to challenge the toll booths, Powers took the case. And the firm decided to cover 75 percent of the expenses on behalf of the community.
3 minute read
March 25, 2003 |

DA Hallinan Dissed in Cop Dismissal Motion

Defense lawyers for San Francisco police brass indicted on conspiracy charges argued Monday that the case is the result of a grand jury process guided by illegal evidence, conjecture, mismanagement and a failure to instruct jury members on the legal definition of conspiracy. The lawyers say District Attorney Terence Hallinan never even provided the grand jury with a definition of conspiracy, making it "highly likely" that the five officers were indicted on something less than probable cause.
3 minute read
January 11, 2012 |

Feds Offer Warnings on the Dark Side of Domain Name Expansion

Protests about the pending expansion of top-level domain names have picked up as the rollout date approaches, with Commerce Department officials expressing concerns about program specifics.
5 minute read
May 14, 2012 |

Navigating Uncharted Waters

Doug Nemec, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Joseph Sozzani, an associate with the firm, write: What do a hedge fund manager, used car dealer, cancer researcher and internet gaming site operator have in common? This may sound like the start of a bad lawyer joke, but the punch line is no laughing matter for those who are impacted by the ongoing debate within the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit over what constitutes patent-eligible subject matter.
16 minute read
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December 18, 2009 |

New York State Crime Victims Board v. Harris

Court Did Not Err in Enjoining Prisoner's Access Of Guardian Funds Until Victims? Claims Resolved
1 minute read
March 01, 2004 |

Congress's Sentence Irks Judges

The amendment, named for its sponsor, Representative Tom Feeney (R-Florida), was quickly enacted last April without hearings and without input from the Judicial Conference of the United States, the policy-making arm of the federal judiciary. Supporters claimed the law was necessary because judges were increasingly setting sentences below ranges specified by the U.S. Sentencing Commission. The rate of so-called downward departures in federal criminal cases rose from 5.8 percent in 1981 to 18.3 percent in 200
4 minute read
November 01, 2011 |

State Farm appeals $253,000 verdict

Parties in a car accident case who were once only $7,000 apart in settlement negotiations are now fighting over a $253,000 verdict delivered in Bibb County State Court.On one side is a Macon firefighter whose pickup truck was hit by an uninsured motorist. On the other side is State Farm, which carried the firefighter's uninsured motorist coverage and is appealing.
4 minute read
January 14, 2009 |

Chambers v. United States

Illinois' crime of failure to report for penal confinement is not a "violent felony" such as would trigger the 15-year mandatory prison term of the federal Armed Career Criminal Act.
3 minute read
May 18, 2000 |

Politics Beckons Paul Weiss Associate

Hakeem Jeffries is getting his money's worth out of his unlimited New York MetroCard these days. A third-year litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and, at 29, a Democratic candidate for the State Assembly from Brooklyn's 57th District, Jeffries in recent weeks has shuttled several times a day between the firm's midtown Manhattan offices and campaign stops in the central Brooklyn neighborhoods he hopes to represent.
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