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November 18, 2009 | Daily Business Review

Setback in Bear Stearns case may force gov't shift

The swift acquittal of two Bear Stearns executives in the government's criminal case tied to the financial meltdown likely will force prosecutors to rethink the evidence they planned to present in a raft of cases that have yet to go to trial, legal experts say.
5 minute read
December 02, 2002 | National Law Journal

Have You Heard This One?

Does anyone understand why it's legal to copyright silence?
8 minute read
February 01, 2006 | Law.com

No One's Immune, Says Jail4Judges Group

Prolific pro per Ronald Branson and a disenchanted Southern California lawyer want to take down the concept of judicial immunity in this state, an idea they're testing this year in South Dakota.No Subscription Required
13 minute read
December 16, 1999 | Law.com

Suit Will Attack Tobacco Deal

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April 12, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Tosses Failed Field Sobriety Test Because of Age

A Lawrence County police officer investigating a car accident should not have asked a 59-year-old woman involved in the crash to perform the so-called "one-leg" portion of a field sobriety test, because of her age and the violent nature of the accident, a Lawrence County Common Pleas Court judge has ruled.
4 minute read
June 17, 2009 | The Recorder

New Challenges in Securities Class Actions

In the current economic climate, mediation may be preferable to going to trial.
5 minute read
August 23, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Examining Disparate Impacts of Foreclosure Actions

Solo practitioner Philip Grant writes: The Appellate Division, Second Department's decision in 'HSBC Bank USA v. Taher' reaffirms a policy in foreclosure actions, which, although ethnically neutral on its face, may nevertheless exacerbate ethnic and economic disparity among New Yorkers' home ownership rights.
10 minute read
February 20, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

A Guide to Navigating Mexican Insolvency for U.S. Creditors

Commerce between the United States and Mexico has gone on for centuries, write Charles A. Beckham Jr. and Dr. Luis Manuel C. MĂ©jan. What has changed is the scale of the volume of goods and services exchanged across the border and the laws applicable to that mercantile trade. Mexican insolvency laws attempt to thread the needle between balancing creditors' rights, debtors' needs and the legal realities of trade conducted by merchants in different legal regimes, but the regulations can be confusing for in-house counsel trying to navigate between the two countries' systems.
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August 05, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Ex-Fed. Magistrate to Be Cooper Health System's GC

When Joel B. Rosen, a former federal judge, was offered the position of general counsel for the Cooper Health System, he knew he couldn't pass it up.
4 minute read
May 10, 2010 | New York Law Journal

War on Tax Fraud and in Afghanistan: Who Knew They Were Linked?

Seth C. Farber, a partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf, and Bianca M. Forde, an associate at the firm, write that recently the specter of a broad, and possibly indefinite, extension of the statute of limitations has emerged in a high profile tax shelter prosecution in the Southern District of New York.
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