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March 15, 2004 | National Law Journal

Hitting the Wall

Professors Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle discuss how the justices have just reaffirmed special treatment for religion under our Constitution.
8 minute read
March 18, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Help Wanted: Who Will Fill 5th Circuit Vacancies?

While President Barack Obama has appointed six U.S. district court judges in Texas, he has yet to place a jurist from the Lone Star State on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
7 minute read
July 03, 2008 | Law.com

Attorney Zach Scruggs Sentenced for Role in Judicial Bribery Scandal

Attorney Zach Scruggs was sentenced Wednesday to 14 months in prison and fined $250,000 for not alerting authorities to the bribery scandal that entangled his father, famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard Scruggs. Zach and Dickie Scruggs and a law partner were indicted in November after an associate secretly recorded conversations about a plan to bribe a judge. Prosecutors said the goal was to get a favorable ruling in a dispute over $26.5 million in fees from a settlement of Hurricane Katrina insurance cases.
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July 28, 2003 | Law.com

Justice Dept. Moves to Halt POW suits against Iraq

The Justice Department has asked a judge to throw out a $959 million judgment levied against Iraq for torturing American prisoners of war in 1991 -- arguing that President Bush has recently granted the country sovereign immunity from actions committed by the Saddam Hussein regime. The move on July 21 surprised lawyers representing 17 former U.S. soldiers and their families and threatens at least two other pending civil cases against Iraq.
6 minute read
March 28, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Insurance Firm Nelson Levine Opens D.C. Office

Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst, a Pennsylvania insurance law firm, announced Tuesday the opening of a Washington office in response to recent moves to expand the federal government's regulatory role in the industry's modernization.
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May 19, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Calvagno v. Bisbal

House Buyer Barred From Evicting Former Owners Who Claimed to Have Been Defrauded of Title
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August 21, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Perfect Storm Spawns A Supreme Scandal

It all started with a note quietly passed from one judge to another.
7 minute read
December 26, 2001 | Law.com

New Jersey Eye Surgeon Fires Slander Suit at Lawyer for Plaintiff-Courting Ads

A rare suit by a physician against a lawyer is being waged on the frontier that state regulators and the courts created when they allowed doctors and lawyers to advertise in the mass media. A New Jersey eye surgeon -- Joseph Dello Russo -- who advertised on radio and TV has filed a defamation claim against an attorney who used a newspaper ad to gather clients for a malpractice claim against Dello Russo.
7 minute read
November 02, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Abrams v. Pneumo Abex Corp

A prior recovery for increased risk and fear of cancer due to asbestos exposure, awarded under the "one disease" rule, does not preclude a plaintiff from recovering damages from a party he had not sued before for a cancer that developed and was diagnosed after the "two disease" rule was adopted in 1992. The Supreme Court reversed the decision affirming a grant of summary judgment to a defendant.
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Obama Poster Case Is Rematch for Ex-Bingham Partner Falzone and O'Melveny's Cendali
Publication Date: 2009-02-09
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When an artist creates an iconic poster using a photograph taken by someone else, who owns the work? Shepard Fairey, the artist and guerilla marketer who designed the ubiquitous two-toned HOPE poster of President Barack Obama, has an answer: the artist. He's hired Stanford's Anthony Falzone, but the Associated Press--which took the photo that's the basis of Fairey's poster--has brought in its own big gun.

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