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Steven Fineman Elected President Of Public Justice Foundation
Posted on 14 Jul 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW YORK - Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP congratulates Managing Partner Steven E. Fineman for his election July 11 as president of the Public Justice Foundation for 2011-2012. The Public Justice Foundation is a not-for-profit membership... Read More

Tags: New York lawyers , Public Justice P.C. , New York law firms , consumer fraud , Steven E. Fineman , Litigation , Public Justice Foundation , Human Rights , financial fraud , mass tort , Lieff Cabraser , Securities

Hezbollah Rocket Attack Victims Sue Al-Jazeera TV In New York Federal Court
Posted on 14 Jul 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW YORK - On the fourth anniversary of start of the Lebanese-Israeli War, 91 American, Israeli and Canadian victims of Hezbollah rocket attacks filed an unprecedented lawsuit against the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television network. The suit, filed July... Read More

Tags: punitive damages , Al-Jazeera , Hezbollah , Robert J. Tolchin , compensatory damages , Berkman Law Office LLC , Heideman Nudelman & Kalik , Litigation , lawsuit , Human Rights , Lebanese-Israeli War , Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

Arizona Governor Files Brief In Immigration Battle
Posted on 29 Aug 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

PHOENIX - (AP) Gov. Jan Brewer's lawyers on Thursday filed the first brief in their appeal of a ruling that put the most controversial elements of Arizona's new immigration law on hold. Brewer asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San... Read More

Tags: United Nations , illegal immigrants , racial profiling , State Department , immigration , Arizona , Hillary Clinton , 9th Circuit , Judge Susan Bolton , Gov. Jan Brewer , Litigation , lawsuit , Human Rights , immigration law , U.S. Justice Department

Ohio Man Faces Somali Torture Claim
Posted on 22 Apr 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

COLUMBUS, Ohio – (AP) A former Somali military colonel now living in Ohio ordered the detention and torture of a lawyer and human rights advocate in Somalia in 1988, an ordeal that permanently crippled the victim, according to a federal lawsuit... Read More

Tags: torture , Mohamed Siad Barre , Abdi Aden Magan , Somalia , Abukar Hassan Ahmed , Litigation , lawsuit , Human Rights