Recent Updates
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Supreme Court to hear case about party in vacant DC house
Practice Focuses 01/23/2017The Supreme Court will hear a case in which people arrested for having a party in a vacant house sued police for violating their constitutional rights and won. The justices said Thursday they will review lower court rulings in favor of 16 people who ...
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Supreme Court won't hear challenge to FBI fitness test
Practice Focuses 10/23/2016The Supreme Court won't hear a dispute over whether a physical fitness test for FBI special agents is biased against men. The justices on Monday turned down an appeal from an Illinois man who failed the test after completing 29 out of 30 untimed push...
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Court in NYC upholds insider trading conviction
Practice Focuses 09/09/2014S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of Zvi Goffer and two others in a case the government had once touted as the biggest insider trading prosecution in history. In all, more than two dozen defendants were convicted, including a one-time...
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Local law firm welcomes two new additions
Practice Focuses 12/03/2010The law firm of Cunningham, Mitchell & Rocconi welcomes two attorneys, Elizabeth "Sissy" Rankin and Roman Hankins. Rankin returns to the firm after serving as a General Sessions and Juvenile Court judge in Montgomery County.Hankins returns to his...
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David Boies Urges ABA Members
Practice Focuses 08/09/2010David Boies challenged America’s lawyers to “bring the rule of law to its full fruition here in this country … to fulfill the goals and lofty rhetoric of our founding fathers,” as the keynote speaker at the Opening Assembly o...