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Division of Financial Services Superintendent Linda Lacewell said the court's decision to invalidate the regulation will allow certain companies to be more stringently regulated by state officials.

Speaking about his choice for the DA appointment, then-Gov. Nelson Rockefeller said he hoped Armstrong's courage and integrity would inspire the people of Queens.

The court's three dissenting judges, meanwhile, argued that the majority's decision could diminish the power of trial courts in New York to prevent abuse of the class action process.

"We agree that the extensiveness and egregiousness of the disregard, deception, and dissembling occurring here leave no alternative but to reverse the judgment of conviction and remit for a new trial and compel us to affirm publicly the importance of juror honesty," the decision said.

An interesting, often humorous, retrospective of the Supreme Court, based on over three decades of first hand knowledge and experience, I believe this is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the law and the inner workings of the highest court in our judicial system.

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A D.C.-based regulatory partner is considered by some Hogan Lovells partners to be the frontrunner for the role.

The Second Hundred had a strong year but can't keep pace with the Global 100.

In his Realty Law Digest, Scott E. Mollen discusses two landlord-tenant cases — 'Yeshiva Chanoch Lenaar v. Lubavitch,' and 'Che v. Sun.'

In their Second Circuit Review column, Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp discuss 'United States v. Ng Lap Seng,' where the court clarifies the contours and scope of the bribery statutes.

In their Taxation column, Ezra Dyckman and Charles Nelson discuss 'Lipnick v. Commissioner,' a recent opinion issued by the U.S. Tax Court which clarifies how the interest characterization rules work in the context of partnerships that have made debt-financed distributions to their partners.

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The 'Curver Luxembourg' decision is a large step in resolving what had been open legal issues about the scope of design patents: Are design patents limited to specific "articles of manufacture" or do they also cover designs in the abstract? Does the title of the design patent (which must recite the article of the design) limit the scope of the patent grant (and hence the scope of potential infringement), the same way as claim terms do for a utility patent?

This "MVP" award goes to the lawyer who had the most profound effect on the law or legal community in the past year or did the most to advance the cause of justice.

Lawyers at Wigdor LLP previously alleged that former DLA Piper partner Louis Lehot assaulted partner Vanina Guerrero, leading to his departure from the firm. The Wigdor lawyers now represent a second woman, an unnamed former human resources manager, who claims she was fired after complaining she was physically afraid to be near Lehot.

The ruling, which Bouchard said he planned to formally enter later this week, ratcheted down tensions in a two-state standoff between Shawe's legal team and attorneys for Robert Pincus, the court-appointed custodian in what has become Delaware's most vexing legal drama.

The Franklin H. Williams Judicial Commission, a statewide panel tasked with promoting racial and and ethnic fairness in state courts, expects the event to be the first of many.

While the hearing isn't intended to focus on just one issue involving children in the state's court system, Dinowitz said he's particularly interested in how forensic evaluators are used in family matters.

Arguments are set to be heard at 10 a.m. Wednesday by Chief Judge Robert Katzmann, Senior Judge Christopher Droney and Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Cuomo, who's pushed various laws in recent years to benefit women and other individuals who choose to have children, said the responsibility of being a new parent should give those individuals a temporary pass for serving on a jury.