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July 07, 1999 | Law.com

Two for the Road

Delaware's magnetism for big-bucks business bankruptcies experienced a rare reversal of fortune when the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the state sent two cases, including one of the largest filed here this year, to the home states where the debtor companies have their operations. TransTexas Gas Corp. and DeGeorge Financial Corp. were the sorts of cases that had litigators speculating Delaware could be in the midst of a record-setting year for bankruptcy filings, based on their volume and size.
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October 21, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Appeals Court Reverses $117,150 Fee to Ad Litem

The mere "presence of money" in a medical-malpractice suit � damages sought for care of a brain-damaged child � isn't sufficient evidence of a conflict of interest requiring a guardian ad litem's services, the 1st Court of Appeals ruled on Oct. 13.
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August 04, 2009 | Daily Report Online

High court to revisit campaign finance law

More than a century ago, President Teddy Roosevelt charged up Capitol Hill to persuade Congress to ban direct corporate contributions to federal election campaigns. The Rough Rider, unsurprisingly, got his way. Forty years later, Congress included unions in the ban and extended the prohibition to corporate and union expenditures.
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November 12, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Labor board struggles for relevance

The National Labor Relations Board, in Democratic hands for the first time in almost a decade, is preparing to steer the nation's labor laws in a pro-union direction.But lawyers on both sides of the partisan divide say this NLRB is driving the labor law equivalent of a Packard-at a time when it needs a Prius to cope with the fast-changing global economy.
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August 14, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Conn. prep school dean accused of molesting pupils

HARTFORD, Conn. AP - The former dean of an exclusive boarding school has been charged with molesting three students, leading to a lawsuit, fears about additional victims and damage to the sterling reputation of the 159-year-old school.The family of one student at The Gunnery sued this week over what it says were "repeated" abuses by former dean Richard Reinhardt, who was fired two months ago.
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July 25, 2005 | Law.com

J.M. v. State

"The stigma attached to being subject to an order to administer psychoactive medication, like that of an order for inpatient mental health treatment, is a collateral consequence that continues even after the term of the order has expired. . . . Accordingly, we conclude that we have jurisdiction over J.M.'s appeal of the order to administer psychoactive medication."
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September 17, 2007 | National Law Journal

Biosolids win a battle over distribution

The "yuck" factor may make it easier for local governments to ban the spreading of treated sewage sludge on farmland, but overcoming constitutional roadblocks just got tougher. A federal judge in California invoked the dormant commerce clause, which bars states and municipalities from discriminating in interstate commerce, to strike down a Kern County, Calif., ban on trucking Los Angeles sewage sludge to a 4,700-acre farm in the county.
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January 10, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

1st Court Overturns Yates Conviction and Orders New Trial

Citing the effect of false testimony by an expert witness for the prosecution, Houston's 1st Court of Appeals on Jan. 6 overturned Andrea P. Yates' 2002 murder conviction and ordered a new trial for the mentally unstable Houston woman who drowned her five children in a bathtub in 2001.
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November 25, 2002 | The Recorder

Lawyer Discipline

An update on suspensions and reinstatements from the State Bar of California.
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June 27, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Greene v. Young

"Because they received notice that sanctions were sought only under Rule 13, we agree with appellants that the family court improperly relied on Chapter 10, the Disciplinary Rules, the Lawyers Creed, and its inherent power to impose sanctions."
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