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May 11, 2012 |

Starbucks Can Limit Pro-Union Buttons of Baristas, Panel Says

The Second Circuit said Starbucks was entitled to limit button wearing as part of its strict dress code for servers during a campaign by the Industrial Workers of the World to unionize several Manhattan stores.
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January 16, 2006 |

UMDNJ Internal Probe Finds Flubs, Not Politics, in No-Bid Contracts

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey erroneously exempted $16.7 million in contracts from state bidding laws, but there is no evidence the no-bid contracts were awarded as political favors, a former state Supreme Court justice has concluded
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March 18, 2002 |

Bush May Hire Lobbyist for Nominations

The Bush administration is considering hiring a high-level lobbying strategist to shepherd the president's judicial nominations through the Senate. The effort comes as a Bush nominee for the District Court in Utah, University of Utah College of Law professor Paul Cassell -- best known for his campaign to overturn Miranda -- is expected to encounter opposition at his Judiciary Committee hearing today.
7 minute read
April 03, 2012 |

Deputy Sheriffs Are Police Officers for Bargaining Purposes, Justices Rule

Deputy sheriffs from Allegheny County may collectively bargain as "police officers" under Pennsylvania's Act 111, the state Supreme Court has ruled.
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April 07, 2003 |

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October 14, 2010 |

Postscript to 'Morrison v. National Australia Bank'

George T. Conway III, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, writes that for four decades, the Second Circuit's case law on the territorial scope of §10(b) traveled on a collision course with the Supreme Court. The holding in Morrison v. National Australia Bank was inevitable, and attempts to get around that ruling, the most creative of which is becoming known as the "listed securities" theory, must fail as well.
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May 17, 2010 |

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November 08, 2005 |

High Court to Hear Challenge to Terror Tribunals

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review the legality of military commissions created by the Bush administration to try suspected terrorists for war crimes. Human rights advocates say the international law and separation of powers issues the Court will confront in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld are critically important -- and could bear directly on the habeas corpus claims of hundreds of detainees being held at the U.S. naval base at Guant�namo Bay.
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July 25, 2011 |

Ex-Senator's Criticism of Counsel in Effort to Upset Plea Rebuffed

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the conviction of Efraim Gonzalez Jr. for using public money for personal purposes, rejecting Mr. Gonzalez's contention that he was not properly apprised by Bronx defense attorney Murray Richman of the ramifications of the guilty plea he entered in 2009.
4 minute read
November 28, 2011 |

Deep Counsel Roster Helped MLB Reach Peace With Players

It turns out that labor peace in a major U.S. professional sports league can be achieved without lockouts or litigation.
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