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21 hrs ago | Legal Times

Sullivan & Cromwell Cleared for Entry in CIT Bankruptcy

A federal judge has approved CIT Group's motion to hire Sullivan & Cromwell as special counsel for the duration of its bankruptcy case.

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Related Topix: Economics News, Bankruptcy

Yesterday | TechCrunch

What If Steve Jobs Hadna t Returned To Apple In 1997?

Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Traditionally we take stock of the things that we're thankful for on this day each year.

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Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks, Science / Technology, Apple, Computers, Apple Computer, Steve Jobs

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Saipan Tribune

Two counts of federalization suit dismissed

The judge handling the lawsuit filed by the CNMI government to block the federal takeover of the local immigration system dismissed yesterday two of the three-count lawsuit, saying the CNMI failed to prove its case.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Washington DC

Capital Gains and Games

Tax Reform Resources

Next week, the White House is expected to release a proposal for simplifying the tax system.

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Related Topix: 9, Tax, Oregon, University of Chicago

Clarks Hometown News Patriot

Kean University To Host International Human Rights Conference

UNION a ' The Human Rights Institute at Kean University will host its third annual international conference on human rights, Combating Hatred, on Friday, Jan.

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Related Topix: Kean University, Montgomery, AL, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Prison

Tue Nov 24, 2009

The Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press

Prosecutor named Dakota County District Court judge

Governor Tim Pawlenty has chosen an assistant U.S. Attorney to fill a judicial vacancy in Dakota County.

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Related Topix: Dakota County, MN, Mendota Heights, MN, Hastings, MN, DePaul University

PR-inside.com

Tessera Promotes Bernard Cassidy to Executive Vice President

Tessera Technologies, Inc. announced today that Bernard J. a oeBarneya Cassidy, senior vice president and general counsel, has been promoted to executive vice president and general counsel.

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Related Topix: Startups, Tessera, Tessera Technologies, Tumbleweed Communications, Software, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, San Francisco Metro

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Whoa! Madoff's law firm demands $22M for 5 months work

Bernard Madoff 's bankruptcy trustee and the law firm employing him have asked a U.S. judge to be awarded $22.1 million in fees for five months of work, boosting their combined total bill to more than $37.5 million.

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Related Topix: Bernie Madoff, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Financial Services, Investment Services

USA Today

Column: 'Years of delay' saved lives

Opinionline Archives 'Years of delay' saved lives Did the Bush administration purposely hold off on prosecuting KSM, as Attorney General Eric Holder suggests? Of course.

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Related Topix: George Bush, US News, Terrorism, Prison, Opinion

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Investor's Business Daily

Teracent: Another Google-related win for a Sonsini

Google Inc.'s acquisition of online advertising start-up Teracent Corp., announced Monday, marks yet another payday courtesy of the Internet giant for a member of one of the most prominent families in Silicon Valley.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Menlo Park, CA, Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, San Mateo, CA

KAIT-TV Jonesboro

Increases in anti-gay, religious-motivated crimes reported

The FBI is blaming sharp increases in hate crimes involving gays and religious groups for an overall rise of about 2 percent in hate crimes last year.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian

katysexposure.wordpress.com | MyRights

Owners sue Quadrant Homes over ’sick’ houses – Mold, cold making residents ill, owners allege

Sold on its square footage — Quadrant advertisements run during the housing boom presented a family lost in its living room — the house lacked a heater powerful enough to warm all that space, Sigafoos said. Sections of the home had been left without insulation by crews working for the Weyerhaeuser Co.-owned developer, he claimed, and wet materials used during the house’s rushed construction provided a foothold for mold.

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ABA Journal

Partners of Mintz Levin and Choate Form New Law Firm

Two Boston partners at well-known law firms are striking out on their own. Lawrence Gennari and Neil Aronson are forming their own firm in Needham, Mass.

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Related Topix: Needham, MA

Sun Nov 22, 2009

The Orange County Register

Enough said by controversial Lou Dobbs

CNN host Lou Dobbs resigned last week, but the damage he caused to the immigration debate will be felt for a long time.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, Illegal Immigration

Examiner.com

Militias in America: Past Present and Future

Get alerts when there is a new article from the St. John the Baptist Parish Progressive Examiner.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform

Free Republic

Data on Arrest Records Aren't Always by the Book

Old Reports Suggesting One-Third to One-Half of All Men Are Apprehended Had Flaws, but New Studies Confirm a High Rate More than 40 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson's crime commission reported that half of American men would be arrested at some point in their lives.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law

Sat Nov 21, 2009

PR-inside.com

Greenberg Traurig Thanksgiving Food Drive Benefits The Children and...

The attorneys and business staff at international law firm Greenberg Traurig, P.A., are helping to ensure that 46 families in Overtown will be able to enjoy the wonderful American tradition of a Thanksgiving feast this year.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Miami, FL

TheStreet.com

Ambac Meets With Wisconsin Regulators

Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Sean Dilweg traveled to New York to meet with executives from Ambac Financial and the investment bank Jefferies yesterday.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Ambac Financial Group, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Jefferies Group, Investment Services

Medical News

Quest Diagnostics reports sharp downward trends in cocaine and methamphetamine use

New data released today by Quest Diagnostics Incorporated , the nation's leading provider of employment-related drug testing services, reveal that drug testing of hair specimens from employees and job applicants in the general U.S. workforce has tracked sharp downward trends in cocaine and methamphetamine use from 2005 to the first half of 2009 ...

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Related Topix: Drugs, Drug Testing, Biotech, Quest Diagnostics, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Health

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Free Republic

Covington Secures Retrial for Former Death Row Inmate

The Mississippi Court of Appeals has granted a retrial for Covington & Burling LLP client Cory Maye, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2001 shooting of a police officer that occurred during a narcotics task force search of Mr.

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Related Topix: Prison, Drugs, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Death Penalty

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