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December 14, 2005 | Law.com

2nd Circuit: Immunity Shields Officers Who Ignored Fatal Binge

Police officers who allegedly ignored, or aided and abetted, the 12-hour drinking binge of a fellow officer who killed four people in a drunken-driving accident are shielded from a substantive due process claim, the 2nd Circuit has ruled. Rejecting family members' right to sue for a violation of their right to be free from a "state created danger," the court said the law at the time of the accident was not so clearly established that the officers could be considered aware of their potential liability.
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February 28, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Mt. McKinley Insurance Co. v. Corning Inc.

Firm�s Entitlement to Asbestos Claims Coverage Not Core Issue in Subsidiary�s Reorganization
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December 17, 1999 | Law.com

Bias Suit on Police Frisks Revived

A complaint alleging racial profiling by an elite unit of the New York Police Department was revived by a federal judge reconsidering a decision to dismiss the action. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin reinstated the cause of action seeking damages for unlawful targeting of black and Latino men to be stopped and frisked. The court abandoned its earlier position that the lawsuit should fail for lack of evidence that non-minority individuals were not stopped and frisked.
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May 04, 2000 | Law.com

Deco Echo

Miami's South Beach is hip again. But for some Art Deco hotels, it's a mixed blessing. With major hotel chains eyeing the Miami market, the owners of certain trademarks noticed. Backed by a 1996 amendment to the Lanham Act that protects marks from dilution by disparate products, they threatened not only the names, but in some cases the architectural integrity of the nation's largest concentration of Art Deco structures.
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Second Circuit Sides with Funds in Argentine Debt Case
Publication Date: 2013-08-23
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In a victory for hedge funds holding debt of the Republic of Argentina, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit refused to narrow injunctions intended to pressure the South American country to repay the funds. The ruling brings NML Capital Ltd. and other hedge funds closer to collecting about $1.3 billion.

October 31, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

Ineligible In-House Counsel, Multijurisdictional Practitioners and Pro Hac Vice Attorneys

Notice to the bar.
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April 12, 2007 | New York Law Journal

New Deals

First Data Corp. has agreed to be bought by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. for about $29 billion. Also, private equity investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has agreed to take ServiceMaster, a lawn-care and pest-control company, private in a deal worth $5.5 billion, including the assumption of $1.02 billion in debt.
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Judge Sends Ohio MERS Class Action Back to State Court
Publication Date: 2012-05-14
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U.S. District Judge James Gwin in Cleveland finally issued a decision over the weekend in an Ohio county prosecutor's case against MERS and a gaggle of big banks. But it wasn't the ruling the defendants had been waiting for.

March 07, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Legal Aid Society Elects New Directors, Officers

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Michael Tigar Defeats Sam Seymour in Mock Supreme Court Argument
Publication Date: 2008-10-08
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