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Denial of Additional Benefits to Immigrants Upheld
Baker & Hostetler Defends Filmmaker Ken Burns in Fight with City Over Central Park Rape Documentary
Lawyers for the City of New York are demanding that Ken Burns and his production company turn over outtakes from the new film The Central Park Five so that the city can defend itself against a lawsuit brought by five men convicted of a notorious 1989 crime.Texas and Other States Get in on the MDL Action
The field of combat in the Toyota sudden-acceleration litigation is the Central District of California, where 300 cases have been coordinated in federal multidistrict litigation. But there are plenty of side skirmishes in state courts, which over the years have emulated the federal coordination system.Branch Davidians' Federal Tort Case Rejected
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week rejected the Federal Tort Claims Act case filed by survivors of the Branch Davidian standoff based on their only appellate issue - that the U.S. district judge in Waco, Texas who heard their case should have recused himself because of alleged bias.Ruling That Isolated DNA Is Unpatentable Now on Appeal
In a case that has generated significant media attention, a U.S. district judge recently held that isolated DNA constitutes unpatentable subject matter.Preparing an Effective Sentencing Hearing Presentation
Today's column is a summary of a program that I moderated at the 2013 Federal Bench Bar Conference on June 7 in Philadelphia. The participants were U.S. District Judge Mary McLaughlin of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Mike Engle, past president of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Ann Flannery, former assistant U.S. attorney; and Peter Schenck, chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia. I designed the program.Claims of Misconduct In ExxonMobil Case Delay Millions in Fees
The pit bull fight over hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees stemming from the $1.5 billion settlement of the ExxonMobil class action case has gotten nastier.Trial to Decide if Bank CEO Knowingly Made False Statements
When it comes to securities fraud litigation, the BankAtlantic Bancorp trial slated for jury selection Friday could be dramatic. If the trial moves ahead as scheduled, it will be only the 12th since Congress clamped down on shareholder lawsuits in 1995, attorneys in the case say. The jury will be asked to decide whether BankAtlantic Bancorp CEO Alan Levan's statements about nonperforming loans on the watch list at the bank with $4.6 billion in assets were intentionally false and deceiving.Special Civil Part Handling Proposed For Ejectment and Detainer Cases
The Special Civil Part Practice Committee recommends making detainer and ejectment actions cognizable in Special Civil as summary proceedings.Biotech Deals a Juggling Act for Latham
When two of your clients need your help on separate yet overlapping public offerings totaling $116.1 million, it pays to be prepared. Ramping Up Stem Cell Research WorkPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman helps complete a $13.9 million venture capital deal for OncoMed Pharmaceuticals.Trending Stories
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