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April 11, 2011
Winklevii Row Out of Court Losers; Zuckerberg Wins Again
It's a sad day for millionaire identical twin Olympians everywhere: Forbes reports a federal appeals court has ordered Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to accept their $65 million settlement with Facebook. That means no more suing Mark Zuckerberg. This is the part of the post where we are legally ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
Rich People Love Fast-Food; It's Been a Good Year for Maine Lobster
A U.S. Appeals Court upheld a lower court ruling allowing Starbucks to end its distribution agreement with Kraft. [BusinessWeek] Rich people are eating out more at fast-food restaurants. It turns out some people with six-figure salaries would rather spend their money on Jimmy Choos than dinn ... More >>
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January 24, 2011
Rahm Emanuel Can't Run For Mayor of Chicago
An appellate court ruled this afternoon that former Obama Chief of Staff and U.S. Representative Rahm Emanuel does not meet residency standards to run for Mayor of Chicago. The Sun-Times reports that a panel voted 2-1 to scrap Emanuel's name from the upcoming vote despite the fact that he is ... More >>
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April 21, 2010
President Obama in Search of a Justice "Who Respects Women's Rights"
President Obama said today that he "has no abortion litmus test" in selecting a replacement for Justice John Paul Stevens and that he "wants to make sure any nominee he picks respects individual rights, including women's rights," reports the New York Times.
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January 12, 2010
About that San Francisco Lawsuit You Might Have Heard About
You might have heard the Voice's sister paper in the Bay Area, SF Weekly, is mixed up in a legal kerfuffle with a rival Bay Area weekly newspaper, the Bay Guardian, and that the case recently took an odd turn when the Guardian seized SF Weekly's two minivans. And you might also have heard th ... More >>
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December 18, 2009
Bloomberg Takes Twin Hits: Angry Judges and Lost Bank Accounts
More signs of the steadily falling stock price of Team Bloomberg today: First, the Times reports that those 'hidden bank accounts' that had Mayor Mike calling in the bloodhounds on outgoing veteran D.A. Robert Morgenthau are widespread throughout city agencies. Times tag-team Willie Rashbaum ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
Court Deals Blow to Columbia's $6.3 Billion Harlem Land Grab (Updated)
A State Court of Appeals decided this afternoon that New York State was wrong to grant Columbia University eminent domain rights that enabled it to seize land from property owners whose businesses were located in the footprint of the university's expansion. This ruling marks the culmination of a ... More >>
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October 23, 2009
From the SLA: Le Souk Is Le Screwed
On Monday night, Community Board 3 voted to deny a liquor license renewal to Le Souk, and today, the SLA offered unequivocal support of that decision: According to a statement released by the agency, the New York Court of Appeals has ruled to uphold the SLA's decision to revoke the Avenue B r ... More >>
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August 10, 2009
Court: Times Can't Have Spitzer Sex Scandal Wiretap Info
The New York Times has lost its bid to obtain wiretap information related to former Governor Eliot Spitzer's involvement in the Emperor's Club prostitution ring. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that general journalistic or public interest -- what the Times argued was the basis fo ... More >>
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June 26, 2009
Army Objects, But Appeals Court Grants Brooklyn Doctor C.O. Status
A small but telling legal battle between the Army and a Brooklyn doctor whose anti-war "epiphany" led him to petition for conscientious objector status ended yesterday when a federal appeals court ruled that the doctor can stay home. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals (think: Sotomayor) decided t ... More >>
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May 29, 2009
Sotomayor Strip-Search Opinion Offers Clue to Her Civil Rights Stance
Last week, while President Obama was vetting her credentials out of the Oval Office, Judge Sonia Sotomayor firmly dissented from her appeals court colleagues on a case that -- while it surely won't be considered a landmark ruling in the vein of saving Major League Baseball -- suggests her approach t ... More >>
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May 14, 2009
Atlantic Yards Continues to Not Get Built
If you're wondering what's going on with the troubled Atlantic Yards development project, the answer is nothing much and nothing good for developer Forest City Ratner. Back in 2007 a judge ruled that the way a long-term tenant of Henry Weinstein's Pacific Street building transfered his lease to Ra ... More >>
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February 10, 2009
Wayne Barrett: How Shelly Silver Made His Pal Chief Judge
This week's Village Voice doesn't hit streets until tomorrow morning, but for our Runnin' Scared readers, we're offering tomorrow's cover story a day early. This one should rock Albany: our Wayne Barrett details state assembly speaker Sheldon Silver's step-by-step scheme to boost his old LES pal Jon ... More >>
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December 3, 2008
Paterson Joins Crowd, Denounces Non-Diverse Judge Picks
This week's Village Voice doesn't hit streets until tomorrow morning, but for our Runnin' Scared readers, we're offering tomorrow's cover story a day early. This one should rock Albany: our Wayne Barrett details state assembly speaker Sheldon Silver's step-by-step scheme to boost his old LES pal Jon ... More >>
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December 1, 2008
Paterson's Possible Picks: The Short List
This week's Village Voice doesn't hit streets until tomorrow morning, but for our Runnin' Scared readers, we're offering tomorrow's cover story a day early. This one should rock Albany: our Wayne Barrett details state assembly speaker Sheldon Silver's step-by-step scheme to boost his old LES pal Jon ... More >>
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September 29, 2008
Setback for Atlantic Yards: Motion to Dismiss Denied
This week's Village Voice doesn't hit streets until tomorrow morning, but for our Runnin' Scared readers, we're offering tomorrow's cover story a day early. This one should rock Albany: our Wayne Barrett details state assembly speaker Sheldon Silver's step-by-step scheme to boost his old LES pal Jon ... More >>
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September 3, 2008
Big Gay-Marriage Win for Gov in State Supreme Court
This week's Village Voice doesn't hit streets until tomorrow morning, but for our Runnin' Scared readers, we're offering tomorrow's cover story a day early. This one should rock Albany: our Wayne Barrett details state assembly speaker Sheldon Silver's step-by-step scheme to boost his old LES pal Jon ... More >>
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August 28, 2008
Jagger Apt. Suit Endangers Us All
This week's Village Voice doesn't hit streets until tomorrow morning, but for our Runnin' Scared readers, we're offering tomorrow's cover story a day early. This one should rock Albany: our Wayne Barrett details state assembly speaker Sheldon Silver's step-by-step scheme to boost his old LES pal Jon ... More >>
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June 24, 2008
Scientology's Crushing Defeat
A previously unpublished saga of an $8 million check
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May 6, 2008
NY's Highest Court Upholds Lesbian Couple's Canadian Marriage
A previously unpublished saga of an $8 million check
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March 25, 2008
High Court Deals Death Blow to East Village MegaDorm
A previously unpublished saga of an $8 million check
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June 13, 2007
Habeas Corpus Edges Bush Regime, 2-1
A previously unpublished saga of an $8 million check
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March 24, 2006
New 9-11 [Redacted] Due Soon
A previously unpublished saga of an $8 million check
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March 5, 2002
Reversal of Misfortune
The Wrong Charges, the Right Decision

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