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November 13, 2001 | Law.com

Reducing the Risks of Old E-Mail

According to The New York Times, more than 6.1 billion e-mail messages are sent each day. Once sent, e-mail messages, each one potentially discoverable and available to virtually any legal adversary willing to file a discovery request, are virtually impossible to control. This makes the cost of responding to discovery requests prohibitively expensive -- even if that lawsuit is without merit.
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June 25, 2002 | Law.com

9th Circuit Was Reversed in 12 out of 17 Cases

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October 15, 2010 | Law.com

3rd Circuit Approves Tighter Government Indigent-Care Funding for Hospitals

A federal appeals court approved tighter government funding of medical care for low-income patients, a decision that could cost New Jersey hospitals millions of dollars a year. The 3rd Circuit upheld a Department of Health and Human Services decision that denied $1.145 million in funding to Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J. The opinion concerned money sought by Cooper for fiscal year 2000, but Cooper's lawyer says it means state hospitals that serve large numbers of poor people will be denied money for the years since 2000 as well.
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October 01, 2012 | New York Law Journal

'Kiobel' Reargument Draws Dozens of Amici on Reach of Alien Tort Statute

The first case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in its new term beginning today is a reargument from last term adressing the Alien Tort Statute and whether the 223-year-old law applies to conduct committed overseas - a question of extraterritoriality.
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January 26, 2004 | Law.com

Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd.

Foreign-flagged cruise ships are not subject to Title III of the ADA.
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June 10, 2003 | Law.com

9th Circuit Spurns U.S. Over Alien Tort Claims

Last week, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ignored the government's request to halt federal court litigation against corporations sued for human rights violations abroad, allowing such claims to go forward under the Alien Tort Claims Act. The decision has "enormous" implications for cases against corporations under the statute, said Venice, Calif., attorney Paul L. Hoffman.
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October 08, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Pickens' plan bridges partisan divide

Trim and tanned at 81, T. Boone Pickens leans forward in his swivel chair to better hear Al Gore exhort solar and wind power. It's a scorching August day at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas. Pickens, who has made and lost billions betting on energy in his boom-and-bust career, waits with Democratic Party bigwigs for his turn to speak.
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May 24, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Both parties wrong on tax breaks for Big Oil

Senate Democrats want to eliminate a tax break for the five biggest multinational oil companies. Republicans oppose the idea on the grounds that rescinding a tax break qualifies as a tax increase. Both parties are missing the boat. By confining their disagreement to select deductions for a few oil producers, lawmakers are squandering an opportunity to examine all forms of tax breaks and make a real dent in the deficit.
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October 24, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Corporate Liability Under the Alien Tort Claims Act

Faith E. Gay, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, and J. Noah Hagey, a senior associate at the firm, write that courts have struggled to articulate consistent jurisdictional parameters in response to ATS suits, but a few patterns are emerging. Meanwhile, the number of ATS suits against corporate defendants continues to rise, perhaps intimating another Supreme Court showdown . . .
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December 23, 2011 | The American Lawyer

The Global Lawyer: The Global Lawyer of the Year

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