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July 06, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Court: No liability for motel owner

The Supreme Court of Georgia on Tuesday ruled 4�????3 that a motel doesn't have a legal duty to check on a guest's welfare at his worried wife's request.The decision likely means the end to the wrongful death action brought by the wife of Sidney Rasnick, a 77-year-old Texas man who on March 13, 2006, was found in distress on the floor of his motel room in Jesup, about 65 miles southwest of Savannah.
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July 03, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Settlement Voided Where Lawyer Mum About Pending Appeal on Same Issue

A lawyer's failure to tell a court and his adversary that he is counsel of record in an appeal involving the same legal issue is cause for throwing out a settlement based in part on the murky state of the law
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May 30, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Supreme Court Backs Employers on Title VII Deadline

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October 09, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Matter of Sedore, petitioner-respondent v. Epstein, respondent

Free With Registration: District Attorneys Cannot Delegate Prosecution Of Noncriminal Breaches to Complainants' Lawyers
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January 14, 2009 | National Law Journal

Double Victory for Criminal Defendants at the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court issued two opinions Tuesday morning, both of them striking down lower court opinions that had favored prosecutors. In one, the justices agreed that a conviction on the charge of "failure to report" to prison isn't the kind of prior "violent felony" conviction that triggers a 15-year mandatory prison sentence for someone found guilty of illegal possession of a firearm. The second involved the deadline for filing a federal habeas appeal under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act.
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July 02, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Ailing Calif. economy could prolong recession

California faces a $24 billion budget shortfall, an eye-popping amount that dwarfs many states' entire annual spending plans.Beyond California's borders, why should anyone care that the home of Google and the Walt Disney Co. might stop paying its bills this weekVirtually all states are suffering in the recession, some worse than California.
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February 06, 2008 | Legaltech News

U.S. Races Ahead in Global Telecom Study

Americans may look with envy on the super-fast Internet connections available in South Korea, Japan and parts of Europe, but they can take consolation from a new study that concludes that the U.S. makes better overall use of its telecommunications.
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October 09, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Corporate Trade v. Golf Channel

Contract Interference Claims Over Golf Club TV Advertisement Rebates Held Time Barred
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September 01, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Fewer Options? Companies Strive to Change Stock Award Programs

Valerie Diamond at Baker & McKenzie says options exchanges have exploded over the past year as a result of the recession. Companies want to give employees more incentive by replacing underwater options with restricted stock.
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June 15, 2006 | Law.com

ACLU Files Lawsuit Over Pentagon Surveillance Database

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday demanding information about a Defense Department database that tracked anti-war groups and U.S. citizens. The suit charges the Pentagon with violating freedom of information laws by refusing to answer questions about the database, which is part of an anti-terrorism initiative. "The U.S. military should not be in the business of maintaining secret databases about lawful First Amendment activities," said ACLU attorney Ben Wizner.
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