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Hogan and Lovells Partners Approve Merger
Partners at Hogan & Hartson and Lovells signed off on their megamerger in separate votes that ended at midnight on Monday.Ballard Spahr, Mayer Brown Help Negotiate $12.8 Bil. Pa. Turnpike Lease
LeaseSupreme Court Rules Hobbs Act Doesn't Outlaw Anti-Abortion Violence
Ending nearly 20 years of litigation, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the federal Hobbs Act does not outlaw the kind of violence that anti-abortion protesters have used to block access to abortion clinics nationwide. The ruling blunts a tool that clinics have used to win large financial damages against protesters. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote that Congress intended the Hobbs Act to cover violence associated with more commerce-related crimes of robbery and extortion, not abortion protests.Cite as: US v. Jose Lopez Arevalo, 09-0576-cr, NYLJ 1202476525430, at *1 2d Cir. (December 21, 2010)Before: Jacobs, Ch.J., Kearse and Straub, C.JJ.p class=
Bucking Victim 'Fury,' Madoff Seeks 12 Years
With his client, Bernard L. Madoff, facing a 150-year statutory maximum sentence, defense attorney Ira Lee Sorkin asked a federal judge yesterday to set aside the "emotion and hysteria" surrounding the largest Ponzi scheme in history markets and to sentence Mr. Madoff to only 12 years in prison. In a letter to Southern District Judge Denny Chin, Mr. Sorkin said, "We seek neither mercy nor sympathy," promising that Mr. Madoff, whose name has become synonymous with greed, "will speak to the shame he has felt and to the pain he has caused" when he appears for sentencing on Monday.Punitive Damages Not Capped at $200,000 in Workers' Comp Wrongful-Death Cases
In a case that's drawn interest throughout Texas, an appeals court in San Antonio found that a lower court judge erred in excluding evidence of compensatory damages in a wrongful-death suit brought by the widow of a worker who died of injuries suffered in a refinery explosion. The appeals court, in a 2-1 decision, found an abuse of discretion on the part of the judge and granted the widow a new trial.Will the Justices Bite the Bullet?
The U.S. Supreme Court has long refrained from examining the real meaning of the Second Amendment's promise of the right to "keep and bear arms." Now, gun rights advocates hope the Court will grant review in Silveira v. Lockyer, a challenge to California's assault weapon ban. The case asks the Court to reverse a 9th Circuit ruling, in which Judge Stephen Reinhardt found the amendment "does not establish an individual right to own or possess firearms for personal or other use."Trending Stories
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