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June 15, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Circuit Upholds Judge-Set Royalties

After performing-rights organizations ASCAP and BMI both lost royalty rate challenges against background music provider DMX Inc. in 2010, they turned to a pair of former U.S. solicitors general to handle their appeals: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Theodore Olson for ASCAP and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr's Seth Waxman for BMI. But all that appellate firepower wasn't enough to turn their fortunes around.
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May 08, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Kaplan Seeks Financial Information Before Approving Lehman Pact

The Southern District judge is concerned that a $90 million proposed settlement with Lehman Brothers shareholders would be covered by director and officer policies, and would not require the defendants to pay anything out of their own pockets.
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January 19, 2004 | National Law Journal

A virtual Web community

The litmus test of "community standards" used to be the tool by which courts measured whether obscenity was permissible in a given setting or not. But when violent pornography enters private homes via the Internet, is there any "community" at stake? From the point of view of a sociologist, the community does not end at a person's front door.
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June 18, 2007 | National Law Journal

Reverse the erosion

Of all the rights accorded by common law, perhaps none matters more � nor has endured longer � than the right of habeas corpus, which guarantees the opportunity to challenge wrongful imprisonment by the government. The roots of habeas corpus are older even than the Magna Carta, and this pledge against arbitrary confinement is a shared legal legacy of the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.
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February 25, 2003 | Law.com

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May 29, 2006 | National Law Journal

'Daubert' Arguments

Practitioners often refer to mounting a Daubert attack-as if there were only one type of attack that you can make as the litigant opposing the introduction of expert testimony. In truth, there are three different arguments that you can press.
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February 06, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Lawyer: Auto industry loans only a temporary fix

DETROIT AP - Government loans given to General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC are only a stopgap measure, an attorney whose firm has been hired by the Treasury Department to advise it on how to aid the ailing automakers said Thursday."Right now there's a loan that's been put in place, that's a temporary fix," said Deryck Palmer, a partner for Cadwalader, Wickersham Taft LLP.
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March 28, 2005 | National Law Journal

BUSINESS LAW | 'Extraordinary' executive pay defined

What makes a corporate executive's pay "extraordinary"? It all depends, says the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but the combined $37 million planned for two executives at Gemstar-TV Guide International certainly fit the bill.
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February 19, 2007 | National Law Journal

Options, and dangers, in MDL interlocutory appeals

An MDL interlocutory appeal can be an important decision, especially when the federal law differs between the circuits, and it requires an understanding of the complexities presented by the "law of the case" rule.
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April 09, 2007 | National Law Journal

U.S. lawyers: Speak out

Where are American lawyers and why are they not speaking up in support of the independence of the legal profession and the rule of law in Pakistan? The silence of the bar is troubling.
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