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5 Jul 9:21 pm
... lawyers and that I am a low-class individual and a fool. Sweet kid. I talk more about Robert's
use of the insult to marginalize his competition at the end of this post. ... blog post was simply that small business owners should "incorporate." Rather amazingly, Robert took exception to that piece of ubiquitous advice and suggested that I included it merely to fatten ... 15, 2009 - 10:19 AM - Comment - 59 Tips for the
Self-Employed- Robert Says He Dislikes Lawyers In General and CPAs Charge Excessive Fees ...
12 Dec, 2007 5:59 am
... TOM HESTER Jr. Associated Press Writer 12:35 PM EST, December 12, 2007 TRENTON, N.J. New Jersey Sen. Robert Martin is mindful of history.
"One hundred years from now I hope we will be remembered for having had the courage to be leaders in ... penalty. "Some people deserve to die and we have an obligation to execute them,"
said New York Law School professor Robert Blecker, a national death penalty supporter who has been lobbying New Jersey lawmakers against
abolition. But death penalty foes point to ...
15 Apr, 2007 4:20 am
... fans, unrivaled public art and urban architecture, power-pols, prizewinning theater, and blues to beat all. Frank Sinatra called it his kind of town; blues legend Robert Johnson wrote: Come on, baby don't you want to go To the same old place, sweet home Chicago Given expected
competition -- Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, Rome, Tokyo, and Prague -- we'll have to wait and see where the International Olympic Committee ...
12 Sep, 2008 10:01 am
... only do you preside over the most pressing issues of the day and enjoy sweet summer breaks, but you also can apparently show up and give
pep talks to the teams you root for. The latest lucky duck, Chief Justice Roberts, who exhorted the Notre Dame football team yesterday at a practice in South Bend, Ind. ... 't
have a lot of details on the talk; it happened behind closed doors. But apparently Roberts talked not about the dormant Commerce Clause or the Sherman Act, but about serving in
Iraq and ...
13 Jun, 2007 3:07 am
... names the head of the World Bank and Europe the head of the International Monetary Fund. (The occasion for these questions is, of course, the hasty departure of Paul Wolfowitz and,
consequently, President George W. Bush's nomination of Robert Zoellick.) Alvarez concludes: Changing the way the Bank chooses its President and
making sure that that President is above reproach are good ideas as matters of principle. They also make sense practically - if the Bank is to overcome the perception in ...
22 Dec, 2008 4:14 pm
... ad campaign for their product, M&Ms. The TV commercial features a blue version of their candy coated chocolate, standing in Times Square, dressed in a manner that unmistakably
is mimicking The Naked Cowboy. The Naked Cowboy, whose real name is Robert Burke, is Mars, Inc. for $6 million for trademark infringement,
unfair use of his image to endorse a product he does not support, and attorneys' fees. See the Complaint he filed here. The trademark infringement allegations are based on Burke's ...
17 Apr 7:14 am
... here, the company continues to chug along making seemingly dumber and dumber decisions. How else to explain paying $8 million in severance to three Rite Aid executives who left last
year in yet another corporate reorganization? Former Chief Operating Officer Robert Easley was hired in the fall of 2007 and lasted about a
year. While Rite Aid forgot to remove Easley's profile from its site, it did manage to fork over $3.3 million in severance for Easley. Did we mention that he only worked there a ...
5 May, 2008 4:51 am
... defense apparently thought it best not to dispute the PSR, and the 4 point adjustment was left hanging. The Judge, Robert Sweet. issued a written sentencing opinion in advance of sentencing, adopting the PSR and stating that, subject to modification ... the sentence would be 151
months. Then came the sentence. Then came the victims. At that sentencing hearing, Judge Sweet heard from several victims, who urged a
draconian sentence. After hearing from victims, the government, and Eberhard, Judge Sweet ...
10 Dec, 2007 4:38 pm
... and as always, if you have any questions please feel free to contact me: E-mail: robert@dioriofirm.com Phone: (888) 456-4658 OREGON UCP
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29 May, 2008 7:10 pm
... Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Master Fund (the "Funds") was affirmed last week. Judge Robert
Sweet of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York affirmed the decision last September of ... investors and creditors.
Considering the substantial amounts (nearly $2 trillion) currently entrusted to hedge funds, Judge Sweet aptly noted: The process by which the
financial problems of insolvent hedge funds are resolved appears to be of transcendent ...
6 Feb, 2007 11:35 pm
... upon appeal by the government. The post More on Castillo And The 100:1 Crack/Powder Ratio thoughtfully details that, after the Second Circuit's reversal of Judge Robert Sweet's below-guideline sentence based on the conclusion that he "unilaterally the 100:1 ratio on policy
grounds" in US v. Castillo, Judge Sweet at resentencing imposed the same 87-month sentence on purportedly different grounds.
19 Jul, 2004 8:32 am
US District Judge Robert Sweet has ordered New York city police to end bag searches of demonstrators
and to allow protestors to move more easily into demonstration areas. In his decision [PDF], Judge Sweet said that police cannot search bags of
demonstrators unless they can show a specific threat to public safety and explain how blanket searches can reduce the threat, but said that the "ban on
12 Nov 9:10 am
... the Patent Office had concluded the debate was resolved in favor of patent-holders. At the very least, Judge [Robert] Sweet's decision not to dismiss should disabuse them of that notion. If we succeed, the potential impact can best be measured by the fact that 20% of the
genes in the human body are now ... would be a free market. Yet based on a few initial reactions I've seen to Judge Sweet's ruling, the
industry does not seem aware that it is very much in their interests for us ...
27 Feb, 2007 9:00 pm
... a wide range of the social establishment, including such board members and honorary board members as former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volker, George Soros, former police chief
Joseph McNamara, federal Judge Robert Sweet, Walter Cronkite, and two medical doctors from
prestigious institutions. A few years ago, some former high-level police officers got into the act, and formed Law Enforcement Against [Drug] Prohibition. Above is ...
9 May, 2007 5:18 am
... interest in "morality" -- needed serious help, especially given Kennedy's statements rejecting legislating based on individual or majoritarian "morality" where individual liberties
are concerned, most recently in Lawrence v. Texas (sigh). My pet theory is that Roberts sweetly told him how weak that was and led him to the amicus briefs and other
information on the so-called "feminist" theory that women need ...
31 May, 2007 12:32 pm
... Rooting out corruption Eliot Spitzer: Born: June 10, 1959, the son of observant Austrian Jewish parents Education: Princeton, B.A., 1981; Harvard Law School, 1984 Career: Law clerk,
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet; Prosecutor, Manhattan D.A.'s office; New York Attorney
General, (O.K., O.K., Spitzer did stints at Paul Weiss and Skadden Arps) Children: Three Hairline: Receding Interests: Rooting out corruption
25 Jul, 2007 7:42 am
... agencies in 62 counties statewide in a lawsuit brought on behalf of anybody illegally subjected to the law." "In October 1992, U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet in Manhattan ruled that a state law violated the 1st Amendment when it allowed the arrest of anyone who
'loiters, remains or wanders about in a public place' to beg. That ruling was upheld by a federal appeals court. Scheindlin has repeatedly expressed her dismay that New York City ...
29 Aug, 2007 9:25 am
... 06 Civ. 2415. The decision comes five months after Eastern District of New York Judge John Gleeson made a similar ruling in a habeas case and just one month after Southern District
of New York Judge Robert Sweet went the other way and upheld the law. These three decisions will now
join a fourth that is pending in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Phillips v. Artuz. "The constitutionality of these statutes is obviously still in ...
16 Oct, 2007 12:35 pm
Two stories in the news this week about lawyers in and out of love: one sordid, the other sweet. First, the sordid. Writing for Legal Times,
Nathan Carlile describes the nasty Washington, D.C., divorce battle between John Guttman, partner and...
24 Jan, 2008 11:09 am
... who was then director of the U.S. Department of Justice, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. In 1994, after my study was endorsed by OJJDP Director Robert Sweet, in-depth investigations proved that Big Porno and the Kinsey Institute had significantly invested in
discrediting our study findings. For, like Butner, our research identified a strong link between pornography and child sexual abuse. The claim that the ...
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