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April 01, 2012
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Thousands of current and future Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction wells are located near Pennsylvania’s 250,000- plus abandoned coal mines, many of which discharge acid mine drainage into local streams and rivers. Acid mine drainage, which leaches
heavy metals from surrounding rocks and kills aquatic life, is the biggest single
cause of stream impairment in Pennsylvania. It has rendered unusable more than
5,500 miles of streams, contaminated untold numbers of household water wells
and left Pennsylvania’s citizens with a toxic legacy projected to cost billions of
dollars. While Pennsylvania historically spends about $19 million annually on
abandoned mine reclamation, this modest effort is dwarfed by the sheer magnitude
of the problem. For the first time in five generations there is a real opportunity to
address this intractable issue by aligning the interests of the state and environmentalists
with Marcellus Shale drillers if legislators will only seize it.
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March 29, 2012
News - Health Care & Life Sciences - Health Care & Life Sciences
Mark Gallant and Iden Martyn were featured in Bloomberg BNA's Health Care Daily Report article entitled ''Medicare: Court Finds Notice of Deadline Inadequate, Orders Payment of Medical Education Claims.''
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March 28, 2012
Publication - Business
Nondebtor Parent's Revocation of S Corporate Election Held To Be Void - Delaware Business Court Insider -
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March 27, 2012
Press Release - Family Law
Jennifer Brandt Discusses Christy Brinkley's Divorce on "Today"
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March 26, 2012
Publication - Insurance Coverage - Insurance
Indiana Supreme Court Again Finds the Pollution Exclusion Ambiguous, But Indicates a Possible Way Forward - Global Insurance Alert! - Enforcing the pollution exclusion clause in a commercial general liability policy continues to be problematic for insurers in the state of Indiana. On March 20, 2012, the Indiana Supreme Court once again held that the absolute pollution exclusion is unenforceable because of the term "pollutant" is ambiguous.
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March 22, 2012
News
Ken Fisher's program "CityWide" featured in New York Daily News
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March 21, 2012
Publication - White Collar Defense & Investigations
On March 15, a panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay of the district court litigation brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission against Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
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March 20, 2012
Publication - White Collar Defense & Investigations
Justices Set to Revisit Affirmative Action for Universities - The Legal Intelligencer -
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March 20, 2012
News - Intellectual Property
David Sunshine quoted in Reuters
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March 19, 2012
Publication
More than 10 years ago, at a time when much uncertainty surrounded issues related to electronic documents, the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics issued one of the first opinions addressing a lawyer’s ethical obligations concerning metadata.
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March 16, 2012
News
The Legal Intelligencer Highlights Cozen O'Connor's Strong Financial Showing in 2011
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March 15, 2012
News
Adam Silverman quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer
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March 13, 2012
Publication - Insurance Coverage, Professional Liability Insurance Coverage - Insurance
When It Comes to Data Breaches: Show Me The Injury - Global Insurance Alert! - Two recent decisions, one by Oregon's highest court and the other by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, reveal a growing trend finding legitimacy in claims asserted by plaintiffs whose personal information has been stolen or compromised only if such information is actually used by a third-party to cause harm or perpetuate identity theft
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March 12, 2012
Publication - Environmental Regulatory & Due Diligence
Pennsylvania's Building Code Advisory Commission Votes to Reject 2012 International Construction Code, Extend Code Evaluation Cycle to Six Years - Real Estate Alert! - According to the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, residential and commercial buildings will account for 73.2 percent of total electricity consumption and 40.1 percent of the nation's total energy consumption in 2011, with approximately half of those totals attributable to commercial buildings alone
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March 12, 2012
Press Release
Cozen O'Connor's Jennifer Brandt Discusses Secretary of State Clinton on the O'Reilly Factor
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March 11, 2012
News - Subrogation & Recovery
9/11 Case Back in the News
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March 09, 2012
News
Cozen O'Connor's Success in Washington, D.C. Featured in Washington Business Journal
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March 08, 2012
Publication
Liability insurance for a large, complex claim is often a love-hate relationship. On the one hand, the policyholder and the insurer may stand on common ground in their adversity to the underlying claimant. On the other hand, the policyholder may find that the insurer—though the enemy of his enemy—is not necessarily his friend. The bigger and thornier the claim, the more likely that the insurer will reserve its rights to deny coverage.
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March 08, 2012
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign Defendants Under the Supreme Court's Recent Decision J. McIntyre Mach., Ltd. v. Nicastro - Subrogation and Recovery Alert! - Although recovery professionals often assert that the movement of goods from a foreign manufacturer to domestic consumers - sometimes referred to as "the stream of commerce" - allows one to maintain jurisdiction over a foreign defendant in a state, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in J. McIntyre Mach., Ltd. v. Nicastro, _U.S._, 131 S. Ct. 2780 (2011) (plurality op., Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia,
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March 06, 2012
Press Release
Dan A. Schulder Elected Fellow of American College of Tax Counsel
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