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New York Law Journal

High Court Won't Review Circuit Ruling on Poker

By | February 25, 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Lawrence DiCristina, who said his twice-a-week games of Texas Hold 'em in his Staten Island bicycle shop are games of skill and should not be covered by the federal Illegal Gambling Businesses Act.
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The Recorder

DuPont Trade Secrets Trial Wraps With Final Jabs From Lawyers

Defense attorney Stuart Gasner accuses prosecutors of doing the company's bidding in their case against Oakland engineer Walter Liew.
3 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Justices: Trial Lawyer, Judge Didn't Research Key Legal Point

A man on Alabama's death row for 28 years won a new opportunity to show that his trial lawyer was ineffective on Monday, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that both the lawyer and the trial judge misunderstood a point of law fundamental to his case.
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National Law Journal

Hearing Set on Fraud Claims in Deepwater Horizon Settlement

A federal judge in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation is set to hear arguments about whether distribution of a $2.3 billion settlement should go forward given BP's claims of fraud against plaintiffs attorney Mikal Watts.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

Criminal Defense Lawyers To Recognize Richard Sharpstein

The late Richard Sharpstein is among the award winners being recognized by the Miami chapter of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
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New York Law Journal

Bertuglia v. City of New York

Court Explains Grant of Unopposed Motion To Unseal Wiretaps for Use in Civil Rights Case
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New York Law Journal

People v. Gold

Testimony Radar's Calibration Proper, Estimate Of Speed Sufficient to Prove VTL Violation
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New York Law Journal

People v. Ransom

Information Fails to Allege Defendants' Actual, Constructive Possession of Controlled Substance
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Fifth Court Hears Arguments in Fight Pitting Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and Albert G. Hill III

A lawyer representing Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins told Dallas' Fifth Court of Appeals that a trial court had no authority to dismiss indictments that the DA had brought against a wealthy oil heir—charges that the trial judge concluded Watkins filed "to assist" plaintiffs lawyer Lisa Blue.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Hinton v. Alabama

By | February 24, 2014
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