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February 15, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Employer Investigations Need Not Be Worthy of 'Sherlock Holmes'

Cases decided by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama are rarely the subject of this column. But the recent case of Jernigan v. Dollar General, vividly illustrates a core concept of discrimination law that has often been applied by courts in the Third Circuit.
6 minute read
October 15, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

Panetta Aims to Get U.S. Businesses More Involved in Cybersecurity

As Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta vividly described a potential "cyber Pearl Harbor" during a recent speech, he included a direct appeal to the nation's business community to cooperate with the U.S. government on cybersecurity measures.
4 minute read
September 30, 2004 | New York Law Journal

Franchising

Rupert M. Barkoff, a partner in the Atlanta office of of Kilpatrick Stockton, writes that it is intellectually refreshing - although pragmatically frightening - to see lawyers and their clients "bet the farm."
6 minute read
March 08, 2002 | Law.com

Web Site Aids Polaroid Retiree Plaintiffs

Scott D. Cousins didn't reinvent the wheel, but the Wilmington, Del., bankruptcy lawyer has turned it in a new direction to help a retirees committee he represents in the Polaroid Corp. bankruptcy reorganization. Cousins' firm, Greenberg Traurig, set up a Web site which has become the primary means of communication with the thousands of retirees who have a personal stake in the proceedings.
4 minute read
March 21, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Coconut Creek residents challenge Seminole hotel

A five-year court challenge to the expansion of the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino has made its way to the 4th District Court of Appeal. The casino stands on federal trust land that was part of a land swap that gave Coconut Creek a parcel of land on the Seminole reservation.
4 minute read
June 07, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Crossroads Between Grand Jury Subpoenas and Civil Protective Orders

In their White-Collar Crime column, Robert G. Morvillo and Robert J. Anello, partners at Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, write: Civil protective orders play an indispensible role mitigating the effects of the federal system's liberal discovery rules by protecting the parties' privacy and confidentiality concerns. Currently, circuit courts disagree as to the rules to be applied when the power given a grand jury conflicts with a court's authority to protect the confidentiality and secrecy of the information sought. This disagreement raises serious issues for practitioners representing clients in parallel proceedings.
14 minute read
February 22, 2006 | National Law Journal

Alito's First Day on High Court Packed With Key Issues

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr.'s first day on the bench Tuesday was an unusually busy one. The Court heard arguments in key environmental cases, issued a ruling involving freedom of religion, and granted review in a challenge to the 2003 federal Partial-Birth Abortion Act that will put the justices back in the center of the national abortion rights debate. Abortion rights supporters immediately sounded the alarm about the Court's decision to review the case with its two new conservative members.
5 minute read
January 24, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Sen. Stevens' Tragic Demise Breathed Life Into Brady

On Aug. 9, 2010, former senior U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska died when his red 1957 de Havilland float plane tore a 300 foot gash into the side of a mountain in a remote spot far from his constituents and even further from the limelight of Washington, D.C. Stevens was approaching his 87th birthday. In addition to Stevens, four others were killed in the horrific mountainside crash.
11 minute read
November 09, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Baker & Hostetler Lawyers Seek to Quash Subpoena For Filmmakers' Central Park Five Outtakes

Decrying a "sweeping subpoena for nearly all of the video and audio recordings" gathered during the making of a documentary about the notorious rape case, attorneys for directors Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband David McMahon insisted the material is shielded by both state law and the federal reporter's privilege.
7 minute read
April 19, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Justice Urges Supreme Court Review of GPS Surveillance

The DOH has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to resolve a conflict among federal appellate courts over whether law enforcement officers must obtain a warrant before using GPS technology to covertly follow a person.
4 minute read

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