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New Law to Standardize Filing Notices of Claim
In a notice sent to NYSTLA members yesterday, president Michael Jaffe said the legislation will "eliminate expensive and time-consuming litigation over unnecessarily complex issues of procedure, that unnecessarily burden the courts as well as the governmental and quasi-governmental entities involved."GPS Pushes the Line on Public Versus Private
Antoine Jones was the target of a cocaine trafficking investigation when federal agents stuck an electronic tracking device on his Jeep Cherokee, secretly following the vehicle's every move for 24 hours a day.New Tactics Being Used in War on Drug Money
Prosecutors at the Justice Department are in the midst of a war against the sophisticated, $6 billion-per-year money-laundering mechanism known as the "black market peso exchange." A new DOJ initiative bent on forcing the movement of drug dollars back into the open again aims to educate U.S. businesses that the way they are paid, and by whom, can be a clear indication of whether they are receiving dirty money.
At Hearing, Kagan Provided Window Into Views
Conventional wisdom holds that Elena Kagan revealed little but a knack for empty platitudes during her U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
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Pennsylvania Causes of Action, 12th Edition
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Avant Success May Give Prosecutors Ammunition in Trade Secrets Cases
The outcome of the high-profile Avant criminal trade secrets case could warm prosecutors and corporate America to the prospect of criminal remedies in trade secret disputes. Legal scholars and trade secrets litigators following the case view Avant's plea agreement -- which includes jail time -- as a victory for the Santa Clara, Calif., district attorney's office that could make such prosecutions more common.Tenn. professor sues Germany for Nazi art seizure
NASHVILLE, Tenn. AP - An 82-year-old Holocaust survivor and his family are suing the German government over an extensive art collection, including paintings by El Greco and Peter Paul Rubens, seized by the Nazis and sold at auction during World War II.The lawsuit is unusual because it is seeking damages for lost art rather than the return of items that once belonged to Holocaust victims, lawyers said.Same-Sex Marriage Foe Hit With $12K in Costs
The Campaign for California Families had argued that because the appellate courts ruled it lacked standing as a party, it shouldn't have to pay the city of S.F.'s costs. The First District disagreed.
White & Case lawyers assist in $2 billion financing
The White & Case attorneys represented BBVA in connection with a senior unsecured $2 billion term loan facility for Comision Federal de Electricidad, the national electric utility of Mexico.U.S. High Court Action Bodes Ill for French Railroad Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision last week on the retroactivity of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act appears to have doomed a suit by Holocaust victims and their heirs for damages against a French railroad company whose trains transported thousands of people to Nazi death and slave labor camps. The retroactivity of the act may cut the wrong way for plaintiffs in the case, which is an action in tort and does not involve expropriation.Trending Stories
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