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August 21, 2002 |

Herrera at the Helm

About eight months into his term, the rookie city attorney Dennis Herrera generally gets high marks. In two moves that made good on part of his campaign platform, Herrera filed a lawsuit against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. seeking ratepayer refunds and asked makers of AIDS drugs to promote their products more honestly. But he's also made a few missteps in his first few months in office.
8 minute read
April 29, 2002 |

Barnyard Brawl

When Dolly the sheep made her public debut in 1997 as the world`s first cloned animal, scientists at the University of Massachusetts and DeForest, Wis.-based Infigen Inc. didn`t see much that was new.
9 minute read
May 19, 2006 |

Former Client Perot Sues Hughes & Luce Over Flight Museum Troubles

A T-38 Talon training jet in Dallas' Frontiers of Flight Museum is central to a high-flying legal dispute. H. Ross Perot Jr. -- son of famous Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot Sr. -- tried to get the government to let him fly the plane as an operable museum centerpiece, becoming the subject of a probe in the process. Now Perot and others are suing Hughes & Luce, which advised them on the plane purchase, and Hughes & Luce partner Stephen G. Gleboff, who initially represented Perot's interests.
13 minute read
August 11, 2003 |

Sojourner A. at el v. The New Jersey Department of Human Services et al,

This case is not about a woman's right to choose whether and when to bear children but, rather, about whether the State must subsidize that choice, and plaintiffs' claim that the family-cap provision of The Work First New Jersey Act (WFNJ) violates the equal protection and due process guarantees of the New Jersey Constitution is rejected; the DHS has presented ample justification for providing welfare families with additional Medicaid and food-stamp benefits but not more cash for additional children ? re
8 minute read
January 17, 2003 |

Weighing the Fate of Roe v. Wade

9 minute read
March 01, 2005 |

The Fen-Phen Follies

ven in a nation obsessed with weight loss, there's never been anything quite like fen-phen. It was a set of magic pills from the wizards of Big Pharma: a prescription
22 minute read
April 25, 2003 |

VILLANO v. Long Island Jewish Medical Center

25 minute read
October 06, 2004 |

Did a Controversial Lobbyist Fool his Own Firm?

As lobbyist Jack Abramoff sat silently in the witness chair last week, attempting to avoid self-incrimination by taking the Fifth, senators reached into the thesaurus to find insults strong enough to hurl at him. But questions remain: How was Greenberg Traurig unable to see what was going on with their flamboyant and controversial partner, who stands accused of hoodwinking millions out of Native American clients?
10 minute read
September 25, 2000 |

Is It Time?

Eight years ago, Bill Clinton made a historic appointment by naming a female attorney general. And if Al Gore wins, political insiders say the stars may be aligned for another first: an African-American attorney general. It's hard to imagine a stronger candidate than DOJ attorney Eric Holder, Jr. Then again, Gore might start fresh, distancing himself from the dirt surrounding Janet Reno, Waco and Whitewater.
8 minute read
September 20, 2007 |

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