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Starbucks Stands by its Gun Policy
Who goes to Starbucks? Volvo-driving liberal urbanites in their Ugg boots, that’s who. People with too much discretionary income, who can afford to spend $5 every morning on their fancy-pants coffee drink.
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Yelp Hit With Second Extortion Lawsuit
Last week, we reported on a class-action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles alleging that Yelp was running an “extortion scheme”. Today, the company has just gotten slapped by a second, similar suit, this time coming from the D’ames Day Spa of San Diego County, which is accusing Yelp of removing...
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Orrick Partner Sued in Contentious Chapter 11 Case
The bankruptcy case of Thornburg Mortgage has already involved an anonymous letter, allegedly stolen laptops, lawsuits against the company's former top executives and law firms bowing out of the case for various reasons.
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Big Bankruptcies' Big Fees Raising Questions
The Chapter 11 cases of copper miner Asarco and casino operator Station Casinos have been a gold mine for bankruptcy lawyers. Baker Botts broke the $100 million billable mark in the five-year-old Asarco case last August, and the legal bills in the seven-month-old Station Casinos case...
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Dawn Johnsen's DOJ Nomination Heads Back to Senate
Repeating arguments that they've been making for a year, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Thursday to move forward on Dawn Johnsen's nomination for a top position in the U.S. Justice Department.
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NY Governor Gets Help From Spitzer’s Lawyer
Gov. David A. Paterson has sought the help of a veteran lawyer with a decent track record when it comes to helping someone in that office. The lawyer, Theodore V. Wells Jr., was on the defense team that persuaded federal prosecutors not to charge Gov. Eliot Spitzer...
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Big Law Defends Guantanamo Lawyers
The intensifying flap over Justice Department lawyers who have advocated for Guantanamo Bay detainees is spilling over to Big Law, where some firm leaders are fighting back against the criticism.
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Supreme Court: Does religion still matter?
Here's the kind of question that might violate the rules you learned about proper dinner conversation: Does President Obama's next Supreme Court nominee need to be a Protestant?
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Google's Top Lawyer Makes More Than $2 Million
Google's founders and CEO will continue to draw a $1 base salary in 2010, but other top Google executives received double-digit raises in base salary and bonuses, according to the company's filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Torture Suit Against Rumsfeld Allowed to Proceed
Since his resignation as Defense Secretary in 2006, Donald Rumsfeld has mostly followed the script, living the life of a retired high-ranking White House official. He’s worked on a book (due out this year), served as a fellow at a prestigious school (Stanford)....
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Lindsay Lohan Wants $100M Over E-Trade Ad
The world revolves around Lindsay. Lindsay Lohan is suing the financial company E-Trade, insisting that a boyfriend-stealing, "milkaholic" baby in its latest commercial -- who happens to be named Lindsay -- was modeled after her. And she wants $100 million for her pain and suffering...
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