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February 24, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Reluctant Rakoff OKs Bank of America Settlement

Calling it "half-baked justice," a reluctant Judge Jed Rakoff Monday accepted the $150 million consent judgment over Bank of America Corp.'s alleged faulty and failed disclosures during its merger with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
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January 10, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Roger Clemens' Congressional hearing postponed by House committee

WASHINGTON AP - Everyone is getting some extra time to prepare for Roger Clemens' appearance on Capitol Hill.That includes Clemens, of course, along with his teammate, workout partner and friend Andy Pettitte, and their former trainer Brian McNamee.And Congress itself.The House hearing involving Clemens, Pettitte and McNamee was postponed Wednesday from Jan.
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November 02, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Res Judicata -- A Bar to Recovery Under TILA?

A veritable sea of mortgage defaults and the accompanying foreclosure litigation undoubtedly represents a sign of the current economic times.
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November 02, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Immediate Notice a Due Process Right in Liquor Control Cases

By not immediately informing an Erie bar manager that his staff served an underage woman after failing to card her, the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement violated that bar's due process right to notice, a Commonwealth Court panel has ruled.
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March 31, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Judges Rule Property Crimes Are Included in Hate Crimes Act

New York's Hate Crimes Act broadly applies to a range of offenses, including religiously motivated property crimes, in addition to criminal acts against individuals based on race, color, faith, gender or other personal characteristics, the Court of Appeals ruled yesterday. The 7-0 Court, in a decision written by Judge Victoria A. Graffeo, upheld the hate-crime conviction of Mazin Assi, who acknowledged putting Molotov cocktails in front of a Riverdale synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur in 2000 in anger over the recent shooting of a Palestinian child by an Israeli soldier.
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August 06, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Citing Cuts, Calif. Public Defenders Refuse New Cases

Alameda County, Calif.'s public defenders on Monday stopped taking many out-of-custody misdemeanor and probation violation cases, citing the expected loss of 14 attorneys through layoffs on Sept. 4.
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August 14, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

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Announcements about lawyers, firms and judges.
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August 27, 2007 | National Law Journal

Webcaster royalty rates rising

Licensing requirements and royalty rates for online uses of music are undergoing sweeping changes, spurring litigation, appeals and even legislation in Congress. As a result, Webcasters are scrambling to re-evaluate and redirect their business models, as they may soon be forced to pay for huge increases in royalties to recording artists.
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January 15, 2010 | The Recorder

Be Artful on Appeal

It's awkward to just ask, but there are subtler ways to gauge justices' interest in the different points you could spend your time on in oral argument, says one practitioner.
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March 18, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

PBA Recognizes Legal Pioneer Brown With Lifetime Award

When William H. Brown III was in junior high school in Philadelphia, he was quite decent with sheet metal work. So when his friend Robert Nix Jr.'s mother, Ethel, asked him what he'd like to be when he grew up, his answer was obvious.
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