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Uhl v. Komatsu Forklift Co., Ltd.

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law, Sanctions
In a case challenging the validity of an arbitration award where one of the party-selected arbitrators had previously and occasionally served as...

O'Neill v. Coughlan

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
In a judge's action seeking to enjoin enforcement of three canons of the Ohio Code of Judicial Conduct which he allegedly violated while campaigning...

Tahara v. Matson Terminals, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
An amount of attorney's fees awarded to plaintiff for work his attorney allegedly performed to secure a late payment award under section 914(f) of the...

Gadda v. State Bar of California

Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
In a disbarred attorney's suit against the State Bar of California and various other parties challenging his disbarment and the Bar's ability to...

Fischbarg v. Doucet

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Exercise of personal jurisdiction over defendants, an individual and corporation, both residents of California, who retained a New York attorney to...

Comm. on the Conduct of Attorneys v. Oliver

Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Rulings suspending an attorney from the practice of law in the federal courts of Utah for one year, followed by a three-year probation period, and...

Florida Bar v. Bloom

Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
In attorney disciplinary proceedings, a referee's report recommending that respondent-attorney be found guilty of professional misconduct and...

Rico v. Mitsubishi Motors Corp.

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In circumstances in which an attorney receives privileged documents through inadvertence, that attorney may not read a document any more closely than...

Hale v. US Trustee

Attorney's Fees, Bankruptcy Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Sanctions
In an appeal brought by an attorney, arising after a bankruptcy court found he failed to honor his legal and ethical obligations in assisting certain...

In re McKee

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a legal malpractice case, a petition for writ of mandamus challenging a presiding judge's assignment of a judge to rule on a recusal motion in the...