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June 19, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Business Case Dismissed for Lack of Jurisdiction

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July 07, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Scalia's Venomous Words About the "Law Profession"

In his angry dissent in the June 26 gay rights case Lawrence v. Texas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia reserved some of his sharpest words not for the court majority or for homosexuals, but for what he called a "law-profession culture that has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda."
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March 08, 2013 | Daily Business Review

TD Bank wins protective order in Rothstein case

Score one for TD Bank in the approaching showdown over a reorganization plan filed by trustee Herbert Stettin that cuts out victims of the Scott Rothstein Ponzi scheme who are suing the bank privately.
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May 31, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

DA Opts Not to Enforce Office`s Resign-to-Run Rule

When two assistant prosecutors in Bexar County decided to run for the same district court bench, Criminal District Attorney Susan Reed opted not to enforce a resign-to-run rule she established to prevent employees from challenging each other in political contests. Should two employees decide to seek the same office, one of them is going to have to resign. This office is not big enough to handle that stress without having an effect on how everyone/someone does their job, Reed said in an Oct. 20, 1999, memo
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January 06, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

Thin Advice on Jail Time Faced Is Basis For Post-Conviction-Relief Hearing

Thanks to an appellate court ruling, a criminal convict will get a shot at pursuing his claim that he spurned a plea deal only because his attorney did not tell him of the possibility of a lengthier prison term.
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March 01, 2005 | Legaltech News

Peace of Mind for a Pittance

Adding a RAID to your desktop computer.
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April 20, 2009 | New York Law Journal

In the Art Market

Beverly Schreiber Jacoby, president of independent consulting and appraisal company BSJ Fine Art, writes: Until recently, art ownership was generally regarded as a passion or a pastime. For those who looked at art as an investment, if only a passive one, the collection may now be summoned to active duty. More than ever, it is vital to understand the value of art, but the quest to ascertain value is a complex endeavor. With information at the fingertips of anyone with a computer, distinguishing the relevant from the irrelevant is as much related to expertise as it is to facts. The critical issue for attorneys is how the decisions clients make will be affected by value and vice versa.
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October 07, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Thai Officials Renew Attack on Charges of Money Laundering

A high-ranking public official in Thailand and her daughter have urged a federal judge to throw out money laundering charges filed against them in a case tied to a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation against a Hollywood producer and his wife.
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March 23, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Dog Bite Victim Settles With Tether Cord Distributor, Home Owner

A woman who suffered arm injuries after being attacked by a rottweiler in Chester County settled for a combined $1.9 million between the dog owner and the distributor of a tether cord the dog allegedly broke free from right before the attack.
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June 14, 2005 | Law.com

High Court Invokes 'Batson' in Two Jury Bias Cases

After nearly 20 years of appeals, a Texas death row inmate has persuaded the Supreme Court to overturn his conviction because of racial bias that tainted jury selection in his trial. The ruling was one of two decisions Monday that amounted to a powerful affirmation of the Court's disdain for racial discrimination in the use of peremptory challenges. "The right to a jury free of discriminatory taint is constitutionally protected," Justice Stephen Breyer wrote. "The right to use peremptory challenges is not."
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