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November 03, 2009 | Law.com

Supreme Court Rejects Certified Question From 5th Circuit in Kidnap Case

Under federal law dating back to 1802, one way for a case to wind up before the Supreme Court is for a federal appeals court to certify a question to the justices. It has never been a frequently traveled path to the high court, but it has been allowed from time to time -- though not since 1981. On Monday the justices rejected such a request by the 5th Circuit to resolve a statute-of-limitations issue that could affect prosecution of long-ago civil rights cases in the South.
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Financial Guaranty Taps Jones Day For Mortgage-Backed Securities Suits Against Ally Financial
Publication Date: 2011-11-30
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Financial Guaranty Insurance Company added to the mountain of litigation that monoline insurers have brought against financial institutions by filing three suits against Ally Financial Inc. (formerly GMAC). FGIC is relying on a firm not typically seen in the mortgage-backed securities litigation arena: Jones Day.

September 15, 2004 | Law.com

Defending Detainees

One day he's on a brief with conservative scholar Richard Epstein, the next he's challenging the Guantanamo tribunals. Neal Katyal defies easy categorization. Just seven years after a Supreme Court clerkship, the young Georgetown University law professor has already figured in many important cases. Says a former deputy attorney general who supervised Katyal at the Department of Justice: "He is already a force, and he will be recognized as a national figure in the law."
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December 15, 2005 | Law.com

The Bigger the Law Firm, the Bigger the Closet?

Law firms with the highest percentage of openly gay and lesbian attorneys are more apt to be smaller firms, with fewer than 300 attorneys, according to a new survey. Theories vary as to why, but it might be that smaller firms are just more up-front about the numbers of gays and lesbians in their workforce. A Seyfarth Shaw associate on the board of the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association says that, at a large firm, there is "an incentive to not be 'out' at work."
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N.Y. High Court Stymies Marcos Victims' Bid for Merrill Lynch Funds
Publication Date: 2012-06-26
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Survivors of former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos' "reign of terror" represented by Kohn, Swift & Graf can't reach $42 million in assets that the tyrant shifted to a New York investment account--at least not yet, New York's Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

December 07, 2004 | Law.com

DLA and Piper (and Gray) Make Merger Official

London's DLA and the partners of Piper Rudnick voted to merge the firms Saturday, creating what on Jan. 1 will be the world's third-largest law firm measured by number of attorneys and fifth-largest measured by revenues. The merged firm, which touts strengths in litigation, corporate finance, real estate and global government affairs, will operate in the United States, Europe and Asia. DLA is one of only a few U.K. firms to try combining with a major U.S. firm.
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Federal Law Preempts State Law Claims Against Foreign Airlines, Second Circuit Rules
Publication Date: 2012-10-12
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An appellate court ruled on Thursday that the Federal Aviation Act preempts the state regulation of all airlines. The decision came in a long-running litigation in which major carriers have been accused of conspiring to keep cargo shipping rates artificially high.

November 15, 1999 | Law.com

Net Rights for the Disabled?

A suit against America Online could have widespread ramifications in the online industry and for a variety of other service-based businesses, lawyers say. The suit puts squarely before a federal court the question of whether an Internet-based service is a public accommodation and therefore, under the ADA, is required to provide access to people with disabilities. "It's a 500-pound gorilla that party-goers can't ignore," said Robert A. Naeve, a labor and employment partner at Morrison & Foerster.
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April 19, 2010 | The American Lawyer

The Efficiency equation

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October 26, 2009 | Law.com

To Build Practice, Ex-Bush SG Embraces Liberal Clients

In George W. Bush's solicitor general's office, Paul Clement built a reputation as one of the most skilled appellate advocates of his generation as he argued the trickiest of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and appellate courts. Now a partner at King & Spalding, Clement has taken on tough-to-win Supreme Court cases that are far from standard fare for a Bush-era legal icon. But Clement said his conservative political views have not changed: "I haven't had a conversion on the road to Damascus or anywhere else."
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